How much can technology certification really impact your classroom, your career, and the lives of your students? Register for CERTIFIED 2025 and join us to find out!
What is CERTIFIED?
The CERTIFIED Educator Conference is the only education-focused gathering dedicated to exploring the pure potential and promise of certification in the classroom. It’s an opportunity to listen, learn, and collaborate with a community of educators who share your passion for using certification to improve education and change lives.
This year, we’ll be gathering in Grapevine, Texas (just outside of Dallas) at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, June 16-18. Read on for all the event details!
Why should I attend?
We could go on endlessly about the benefits of attending CERTIFIED. But for starters, here are the top reasons to join us this year:
- Catch the certification fever: Get excited about certification with students from across the United States. You’ll have a front row seat to watch the and U.S. National Championship competitors in action. All CERTIFIED Conference registrants are invited to attend the Championships’ award ceremonies on Wednesday.
- Live their stories: See the impact certification is having on real students’ and teachers’ lives by hearing their stories first-hand.
- Improve your skills: Enhance your teaching and professional credentials by taking a certification exam while you attend the conference.
- Connect and collaborate: Form meaningful connections with hundreds of fellow educators and certification experts as you share ideas, compare strategies, and learn from each other’s successes in keynotes, breakout sessions, and one-on-one conversations.
What will I learn?
The CERTIFIED Educator Conference is all about teachers teaching teachers. This is your chance to learn from powerful educators with knowledge, expertise, and experience in your specific teaching areas.
Our breakout sessions and workshops this year include:
- Unlocking success with a data deep-dive
- Transform learning with Autodesk Fusion
- School-based startups: Blueprints to make your entrepreneurship curriculum pop
- Engaging project-based learning with Adobe
- You ain’t no dum-dum: Novel ideas to promote certification
- AI for teachers: No robot required
- Maximizing program impact: An administrator’s lessons from the field
- Modernizing "Introduction to Computer Science" classes
- Certify to lead: Empower CTE students with FBLA opportunities and Microsoft Office Specialist certification
- The credential advantage
- Preparing the next generation of bookkeeping and accounting professionals
- Developing a thriving certification program in a small town
- Creating a simulated workplace in your classroom
- Critical skills rodeo
- Certified relationships
- From classroom to CEO: Mastering ESB certification prep
- Certified marketers: Improve your media and marketing courses (without starting from scratch)
- Innovative ways to run a successful certification program
- Preparing to certify in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Read full descriptions for each session .
How much does it cost?
Registration for CERTIFIED 2025 costs $795. If you register before April 1, 2025, you’ll receive the full conference pass for $695. Hoping to save even more money? If you plan to attend with your colleagues, you can register with a group of five or more educators for an additional 10% discount.
Keep in mind that conference registration fees do not include your hotel or travel costs. To help with your expenses, we’ve negotiated an exclusive rate of $199/night (not including resort fees) at the Gaylord Texan. To receive the discounted rate, you must book through the CERTIFIED 2025 hotel registration site which will be sent to you after you register.
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