TLI: Technology Leadership Institute- 2025-2026

🍁 8:00- 9:30 - Leadership Tabletop Conversations & Breakfast
This isn’t your typical sit-and-listen event! Rather, it's an opportunity to have  casual, engaging discussions with you and the LHRIC leadership team on topics that matter most:

• Security Operation Services: learn how our Verticals work together to keep your district's network secure and ask any cybersecurity-related questions
• Financial Understanding: Discover how Student and Financial Integrations can simplify your work and save you time
• Instructional Technology: engage in conversations about what the requirements are for  NYSED Instructional Technology Plans -submitted & approved by 6/30/26
• Data Assessment Solutions: explore how LHRIC is empowering districts to make data-driven decisions with the Teacher Level Reports
• Procurement: meet the staff behind the scenes and ask questions related to purchasing

🍁 9:30-11:00 AM - TLI Keynote: AI as a Social Technology
By now, we’ve all seen the dynamic impact of the NYS cell phone ban on our students. classrooms and our schools. Administrators and teachers are noticing greater engagement across learning environments. This is a moment for us to come together, share our successes and challenges, and become more intentional about our use of technology, particularly AI, with students. How can students maintain their composure as they navigate large language models that can often feel like a friend, buddy, or even a companion? AI is often introduced as a breakthrough in efficiency, promising to give teachers back time for the work that matters most. Yet its earliest and deepest effects are social. It is already changing how students think and relate to one another. Teachers notice the tension: on one side, AI lightens their load and streamlines preparation; on the other, they see assignments completed more quickly, but the deeper habits of persistence, critical thinking, and connection begin to weaken when students use AI regularly. Personalization should help students grow, yet too often it pushes them into isolated work instead of shared learning. And that misses what school is really for. Beyond delivering content, classrooms have always been places where young people practice how to live, think, and work together. Dr. Mandy McLean will share her research on AI as a social technology first and will explore how schools can move forward with purpose—using new tools to protect and strengthen the human capacities that matter most.

🍁 11:00-12:00 PM Making AI Purposeful in Our Schools -  -AI Literacy Framework

Dr. Tara Nattrass, co-author of the AI Literacy Framework in collaboration with. Code.org and others, will be working with Dr. McLean to present the Framework to our region. Your district will gain strategies to take back to your schools, enabling you to continue the conversation about technology and AI, while keeping the human at the center of it all.

The TLI Kickoff portion of the program will also be available to non-TLI members, offering an added opportunity for all district leaders to benefit from the ideas, conversations, and connections TLI brings.

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🌟 12:00-1:00 - Be an Influencer on a NEW AI App - classwaves.ai

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