The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), in partnership with the Texas Association of School Administrators and CoSN’s Texas state affiliate chapter, the Texas Educational Technology Leaders (formerly The Texas K-12 CTO Council), is honored to support the work of current and aspiring superintendents and district leadership teams in leading all aspects of digital learning transformations.

CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation Report

CoSN recently released the 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation Report. The Driving K-12 Innovation Series is the process by which CoSN shares high quality trend reports regarding the use of emerging technologies to transform K-12 teaching and learning.

Through the Driving K-12 Initiative, a global advisory board of K-12 leaders, practitioners, and change-makers engage in discourse about the major themes driving, hindering, and enabling teaching and learning innovation in K-12 schools. The results of the advisory board’s work is divided into three main categories: Hurdles, Accelerators, and Enablers. To learn which specific items fell into each of the three main categories as well as how to access the full report please go to https://www.cosn.org/edtech-topics/driving-k-12-innovation/. Plus, if you would like to be considered to be a part of the 2024 Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board, you will find a link to submit your notice of interest on that same webpage.

EmpowerED Superintendent edLeader Panel Broadcast Series

The EmpowerED Superintendents edLeader Panel broadcast series — sponsored by ClassLink — is now in its fifth season. Each monthly broadcast is co-hosted by CoSN, AASA, and edWeb.net. Participants can earn continuing education (CE) credits after viewing the live or recorded broadcasts. To learn more about CE credits please visit https://home.edweb.net/edweb-tips/

April 2023 edLeader Panel Broadcast

The next broadcast of the CoSN / AASA EmpowerED Superintendents edLeader Panel Series, titled “Leading and Implementing Educational Technology Innovations: Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers,” airs Monday, April 10, 2023, at 4 p.m. Central Time. The April 10 edLeader Panel Broadcast will focus on the main categories of CoSN’s 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation Report. Three superintendents who served on the international committee that researched and produced the CoSN 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation Report are the featured guest panelists. Superintendents Scott Borba, Todd Dugan, and Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar will share how the Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers specified in the CoSN 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation Report manifest themselves in their school districts, the strategies they have implemented to overcome the Hurdles, as well as how to leverage the Accelerators and Tech Enablers. For more details and access to the webpage for free registration for the April 10 broadcast, please use this URL link: https://home.edweb.net/webinar/supers20230410/. If you are not able to attend the live broadcast, the April 10 edLeader panel will be available at that same link as a recording and also as a podcast, a day or two after the live broadcast.

CoSN & Texas Educational Technology Leaders (TETL) Membership

If your school or district would like more information about joining CoSN or getting more involved with CoSN, please contact membership@cosn.org. For information about Texas Education Technology Leaders, please contact Dianne Borreson, Executive Director, Texas Education Technology Leaders at exdir@tetl.org or call 855.458.9286.