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During the first week of February, TCEA 2025 served as a collaboration center for teachers, administrators, IT leaders, and all educators as they shared ideas, instructional strategies, leadership goals, and more.
Attendees boosted professional development goals by earning free microcredentials. TCEA’s microcredential learning programs are topic-based, role-based, tool-based, or a mixture of these. Available microcredentials included: AI in education, digital creation, digital media for librarians, educational leadership, instructional coaching, and research and best practices.
The 2025 TCEA Leadership Summit was new this year, and featured an exclusive full-day workshop event designed for district and campus leaders to explore critical topics. The Summit was a deep dive into key issues and challenges education leaders face, with sessions and discussions designed to provide actionable strategies to support strategic goals.
New edtech tools and resources included:
Avantis Education, a provider of virtual reality technology for K-12 schools, showcased its latest innovation, Eduverse+. Eduverse+ is designed to enhance Avantis’ award-winning ClassVR headsets. It provides access to four new content suites that empower educators to transform classroom learning with dynamic, immersive VR experiences. These resources aim to boost student engagement, deepen understanding and make learning more interactive and memorable. Eduverse+ includes: EduverseAI for revolutionized lesson planning with AI-powered content generation; WildWorld for immersive 360° wildlife videos, narrated films, and ‘wild fact’ resources; STEAM3D with over 1,100 lifelike 3D models, from microscopic biological structures to interactive simulations; and CareerHub, bridging the gap between education and the workforce with VR-powered career exploration.
Cellairis announced the launch of The Cyber Pouch, a cutting-edge solution designed to address the growing challenge of cell phone usage in schools. Distraction caused by mobile devices has become a pressing issue in classrooms nationwide, impacting focus, security, and even academic performance. The Cyber Pouch offers a proactive solution to this problem by creating a distraction-free learning environment while ensuring accessibility when needed. The Cyber Pouch is simple yet highly effective and: blocks RF signals once a device is secured in the double-sealed Velcro enclosure, shielding it from all incoming and outgoing signals, eliminating distractions; is accessible in emergencies with no additional hardware required to unlock the pouch; features durable design built for long-lasting use; is customizable so schools and organizations can personalize their pouches with custom logos, ensuring a professional and cohesive look; and offers practical features, including a transparent ID holder pocket and a carabiner for convenient attachment to backpacks. For more information, contact Cyberpouch@cellairis.com.
Encore Data Products showcased a wide array of audio and technology solutions and focused on engaging educators and highlighting products that can improve learning environments. Encore Data Products offers a variety of audio and tech products designed specifically for schools, libraries, and businesses. The line includes school-specific headphones made for durability and easy maintenance, as well as school headsets with microphones for interactive learning in classrooms. By participating in TCEA 2025, Encore aims to introduce these products to educators who are keen to bring modern audio solutions into their teaching. More about these offerings can be explored here.
Epson demonstrated its flexible solutions for immersive learning and enhanced collaboration. Advancements in educational technology aren’t slowing down as integration into classrooms becomes essential rather than optional. As a result, the demand for large, flexible and easy-to-use displays are on the rise. Epson demonstrated its extensive lineup of big, bright, efficient display solutions that deliver immersive learning experiences and foster engaging educational environments that other displays can’t match. The PowerLite 810E is a newly designed extreme short throw display, the PowerLite 810E enables an 80-inch display from as close as one inch away and can project a massive 160-inch image–up to 2.5 times larger than a 75-inch flat panel display–from as little as 14 inches away. The Mobi Mobile Projector Cart (ELPCS01) takes learning on the go and transforms any available wall space into a display with what was named one of the 2024 TIME Best Inventions Special Mentions. The BrightLink 770Fi is a large, easy-to-read display for captivating interactive lessons and is the latest addition to Epson’s lineup of interactive displays. The lamp-free BrightLink 770Fi features 3-chip 3LCD technology and a virtually maintenance-free laser light source.
IBM demonstrated its FlashSystem storage solutions, designed to help schools and districts optimize IT performance, enhance data protection, and reduce costs. With the IBM FlashSystem, educational institutions gain: high performance and scalability via fast, reliable storage for digital learning environments; cyber resiliency with built-in security and rapid recovery to protect student and faculty data; and cost efficiency through AI-driven storage management to reduce operational overhead.
KinderLab Robotics, creator of the KIBO robot, announced the expansion of its curriculum offerings to serve students in grades 3–5 with Exploring with KIBO. Building on KIBO’s proven success in early childhood education, KinderLab’s playful, screen-free robotics kits now offer a seamless learning progression that spans pre-K through 5th grade. The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities specifically designed for upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level. Serving as a direct follow-on to the Growing with KIBO K-2 curriculum, Exploring with KIBO allows older children to expand their computational thinking and computer science skills utilizing KIBO’s playful extension sets and engaging cross-curricular activities. This new curriculum allows district leaders to extend their existing KIBO implementations with age-appropriate, challenging content that maintains the platform’s signature screen-free, hands-on learning approach.
QOMO displayed its interactive edtech solutions, which are tailored to teachers and their students–from interactive displays to document cameras, the focus is edtech that’s affordable, easy to use, and ships with software included. It also works with existing software and devices. Favorites at TCEA 2025 include Document Cameras (Wireless, Portable, 4K), the QShare 20 Wireless Document Camera Receiver, the Interactive Podium Monitor, the QIT30 Prodigy Wireless Writing Tablet, and the QShare 100 Wireless HDMI Transceiver.
Samsung introduced its new WAF Interactive Display, which enhances in-classroom collaboration and builds on Samsung’s partnership with Google with its second Google EDLA-certified solution. Available in 65-, 75- and 86-inch screens, the WAF delivers captivating classroom experiences for students and educators alike. Powered by the Android 14 operating system, the WAF builds on the successes of Samsung’s first Google Enterprise Devices Licensing Agreement (EDLA)-certified classroom display, the WAD series, with a variety of familiar pre-installed and downloadable Google Apps via the Google Play Store and introduces new features to enhance classroom instruction and engagement.
