NCED Connect Symposium 2025

Discover how easy it is to enhance your existing lessons with AI tools while aligning with ISTE standards—and get access to exclusive resources to help you take your curriculum to the next level. In this interactive session, you’ll explore practical strategies for integrating digital citizenship, creativity, and research skills into your lessons using AI. Participants will leave equipped with new tools, templates, and ready-to-use ideas to supercharge their teaching and engage students like never before.

Discover how easy it is to enhance your existing lessons with AI tools while aligning with ISTE standards—and get access to exclusive resources to help you take your curriculum to the next level. In this interactive session, you’ll explore practical strategies for integrating digital citizenship, creativity, and research skills into your lessons using AI. Participants will leave equipped with new tools, templates, and ready-to-use ideas to supercharge their teaching and engage students like never before.

Discover how to transform your library into an engaging hub of learning with high-yield instructional strategies. This session will explore research proven strategies and how they can be adapted for library settings to enhance student engagement and academic success. Participants will gain practical resources and engage in activities to apply these strategies to their own library lessons. Perfect for library leaders looking to align their practices with ISTE standards and support core curricula.

Are you purchasing class sets of magazines, an online encyclopedia, or subscriptions for ebooks? Are you seeing students and teachers Googling research topics? If so, join us and I’ll do you one better! During this session, we’ll show you how to save your school/district funds and showcase best practices for research. We will collectively tap into a plethora of digital resources available to all North Carolina K-13 public school units.

Looking for innovative ways to engage young readers? Join us for an interactive session showcasing the NC Kids Digital Library: a treasure trove of eBooks, audiobooks, and Read-Alongs designed for grades K through 8. Discover how upgrading to the Libby app can transform your family’s digital reading experience with user-friendly features like offline reading, Apple CarPlay/Android Auto integration, and seamless management across devices, including Kindle. Whether you’re planning a Title I Night or a Parent Lunch & Learn, this session equips you with the tools and tips to help families dive into the world of digital reading.  Bring a tablet or e-reader, public library card, and your Kindle account information if you'd like to "plearn" with us.

Do you want your students to work collaboratively instead of having one or two team members shouldering to bulk of the work? Learn first hand the difference between group work and a collaborative team. Delve into design challenges that demonstrate these methods. Participants will harness their abilities to work as a truly collaborative team. Join us to build today and utilize in your classroom tomorrow!