Magazine
SchoolCIO Leadership Summit: Looking Towards 2014
11/1/2012 By:
Reporting by Henry Thiele, Ellen Ullman, Judy Salpeter, Kevin Hogan, and Christine Weiser
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| (Left) Dr. Manuel Isquierdo, Superintendent of Sunnyside Unified School District in Tucson, AZ, shares his district’s success story with summit attendees. (Right) Karen Cator, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education, offered a top 10 edtech tips presentation in the morning keynote address. |
The next two years promise to bring
significant changes to the role technology
plays in classrooms and schools. With
the growing popularity of BYO and 1:1
implementations, the evolution from print
textbooks to digital content, and the
adoption of Common Core State Standards supported
by online assessments, there are a number of pressing
issues on the minds of K-12 technology leaders and
administrators as they look ahead to the year 2014.
This was the filter through which many of the
discussions took place at this fall’s SchoolCIO Technology
Summit, which brought together superintendents, CIOs
and other district leaders from all over the country for
two days of networking and problem solving. In the
pages that follow, you will read reports from five working
groups that met to focus on:
* Digital Content and Learning Management;
* Infrastructure, Bandwidth and Access;
* Professional Development;
* Budgeting and Community Support; and
* Equipping the 21st Century Classroom.
General sessions complemented the smaller working
groups. The opening session focused on public
school systems in three major urban areas—Chicago,
Boston and Tucson—with a look at their efforts to
narrow the digital divide, engage students, and
inspire them to stay in school for an education that
truly prepares them for a successful future. Friday
morning’s keynote address was delivered by Karen
Cator of the U.S. Department of Education, who
talked about national priorities and initiatives ranging
from increasing broadband access to tapping into
procurement trends such as crowd-sourced ratings
and aggregated purchasing to deliver better access to
affordable and high-quality content. Presentations from
the two general sessions can be found in the online
“presentation vault” at: www.schoolcio.com/ciosummits
A special thanks to our sponsors—Aerohive, HP,
Intel, Lightspeed Systems, Panasonic, and School
Messenger—as well as all the inspiring district leaders
who came together to share their wisdom and
experience with us and, in turn, with the r eaders of
this publication.