SLATE 2025 in Wisconsin Dells is where K-12 educational technology stops being a buzzword and starts being a battle plan. This isn’t theory class. This is leaders, practitioners, and decision-makers getting together to figure out how tech actually shows up for students, teachers, and communities. And yeah, I’m extremely fired up about it.

Here’s the thing: what people don’t understand is that K-12 leaders carry a wild amount of responsibility. Budgets, security, equity, outcomes—plus explaining Wi-Fi to people who think it’s a mood. SLATE gets that. This conference is built for real-world constraints and real-world wins. You walk in juggling problems, and you walk out with ideas you can actually deploy.

Make no mistake, Wisconsin Dells is the perfect setting. Central, accessible, and just chaotic enough to remind us that learning should be dynamic. Big conversations during the day, hallway problem-solving between sessions, and the kind of networking that turns into “hey, call me if this breaks.”