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The LTC is an IL State Board of Education program that supports tech-powered learning opportunities.
“All those little icons…ever wonder what they do?” 🤔 📬
For Tech Tip Tuesday, let’s run a roll call on Gmail icons! These handy buttons can keep your inbox tidy and on top of important incoming messages – even when you’re too busy to reply.
Ready to do even more with Gmail? Gmail Basics can bring you up to speed 📥
🔗 https://courses.ltcillinois.org/course/gmail-basics-1
09/22/2026
NOMINATION DEADLINE 🏆📥 Award season is just around the corner, so get your LTC Award nominations in before they close on September 30!
If you have…
✅ Used technology to enhance instruction, student academics, or professional capacity
✅ Collaborated with multiple educators or schools to support effective tech use
✅ Received outstanding support from a private sector vendor
…then you should submit a nomination and receive statewide recognition for your transformative vision of tech-powered teaching and learning.
🗳️ Self-nominations accepted for Vision and Collaboration Awards.
🗳️ Only LTC Purchasing Program Vendor Partners may be nominated for Alliance Award.
🔗 CLOSES September 30 | https://www.ltcillinois.org/about/awards/
09/21/2026
TOMORROW @ 3:30PM ⤵️
NEXT WEEK 🔜 🏆 Get your whole building excited about tech integration with ready-to-use challenges that:
✅ Keep it simple
✅ Celebrate staff successes
✅ Focus on usefulness (instead of becoming just another overwhelming initiative)
Tech coach Emilie Rio-Wawrzynski will show you how PLUS highlight how these challenges can foster a school staff culture that’s willing to try new things, share ideas, and learn from one another.
📅 September 22 | Mission Impossible: How to Organize a Building-Wide Tech Challenge | Webinar
🔗 https://www.ltcillinois.org/event/mission-impossible-how-to-organize-a-building-wide-tech-challenge/
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 📣 ChatLTC, let everyone know that Hi AI! session proposal submissions remain open through October 7.
We’re looking for sessions that spark conversation, share practical strategies, and highlight real-world experiences with AI in K-12 education:
❇️ AI fundamentals
❇️ AI-powered tools and resources
❇️ Developing AI use policies
❇️ AI in CS & STEM
❇️ Developing AI literacy
❇️ Differentiating learning and more
🎟️ FREE attendance for all lead presenters
🔗 https://www.ltcillinois.org/hiai/rfp/
09/21/2026
K-12 LEADERS | Confidently plan for the school year ahead using our updated edtech Legal Reference Guide ⚖️
This free guide contains succinct summaries of state and federal laws, regulations, and rules affecting technology use in Illinois schools, including:
⭐(NEW) AI use in interviews & teacher evaluation
⭐ (NEW) Cell phone use during instruction time
✔️ Website accessibility
✔️ Data privacy
✔️ E-learning and much more
📘 UPDATED RESOURCE | Laws Effecting Technology in School Districts (2026 Legal Reference Guide)
🔗 https://www.ltcillinois.org/resources/legal-guide/
🎙️🤔 “When did Google Forms become ‘screen time’?”
From a sensational Economist headline to recent Senate testimony, the emerging debate around tech use in schools is often oversimplified.
Educator and writer Adam Sparks contests those broad strokes – and joins One-to-One to dig into the studies cited by advocates for a broad edtech rollback.
🎧 NEW EPISODE | The Growing Case Against EdTech with Adam Sparks
🔗 https://www.ltcillinois.org/the-growing-case-against-edtech-with-adam-sparks/
09/17/2026
09/17/2026
NEXT WEEK 🔜 🏆 Get your whole building excited about tech integration with ready-to-use challenges that:
✅ Keep it simple
✅ Celebrate staff successes
✅ Focus on usefulness (instead of becoming just another overwhelming initiative)
Tech coach Emilie Rio-Wawrzynski will show you how PLUS highlight how these challenges can foster a school staff culture that’s willing to try new things, share ideas, and learn from one another.
📅 September 22 | Mission Impossible: How to Organize a Building-Wide Tech Challenge | Webinar
🔗 https://www.ltcillinois.org/event/mission-impossible-how-to-organize-a-building-wide-tech-challenge/
09/16/2026
09/16/2026
COMING UP TOMORROW 🔜 🥾 Think Canva is just for graphics? Think again! Come explore Canva Code and build your own classroom-ready application, game, or learning activity.
No coding experience necessary! Just bring your curiosity as we learn to use simple prompts to create a classroom randomizer, review game, or digital manipulative 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 0️⃣
📆 September 17 | 3:30 PM | Webinar | FREE
🔗 https://www.ltcillinois.org/event/tech-treks-code-like-a-pro-in-canva/
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Address
3358 Big Pine Trail
Champaign, IL
61822
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Friday | 8am - 4:30pm |