CoSN Leads The Way
While applications for the 2023-2024 Advisory Board are closed, we encourage you to learn more about CoSN's Driving K-12 Innovation initiative! Visit cosn.org/k12innovation to explore the latest trends and challenges shaping education.
Be a Changemaker in 2025: Consider joining our dynamic Advisory Board next year. Help identify critical hurdles, emerging accelerators, and impactful technology enablers that are transforming teaching and learning.
CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation and EdTech Innovation Project Director: Laura Geringer, lgeringer@cosn.org.
CoSN staff contact: Jill Brown, MA, Ph.D., Director of Professional Learning, jbrown@cosn.org
Driving K-12 Innovation
CoSN continues its commitment to sharing high-quality trend reports that support the use of emerging technology in K-12 education to transform learning. In this initiative, a global 100+ advisory board of K-12 leaders, practitioners, and changemakers engage in discourse about the major themes driving, hindering, and enabling teaching and learning innovation at schools. CoSN members and partners are privy to the survey results released in early each calendar year.
This committee is not member exclusive.
EdTech Innovation Committee
The EdTech Innovation Committee (formerly the Emerging Technologies Committee) develops resources year-round on the Driving K-12 Topics, and other timely topics as they arise, that have the potential to significantly impact K-12 education. These resources are created to inform CoSN members on EdTech Innovations – building on the annual Driving K-12 Innovation Report, especially the Tech Enablers – with a focus on school district technology leaders/CIO/CTOs and their teams.
This committee is member exclusive.
NEW RELEASE
CoSN Announces Top 2025 Hurdles, Accelerators and Technology Enablers Shaping K-12 Innovation
We have released our annual Driving K-12 Innovation Top Topics, outlining the key challenges and opportunities that will define K-12 education in 2025. This year’s report identifies the top three Hurdles and Accelerators for schools to address, along with the top three Technology Enablers to leverage. Click below to preview the Top Topic of 2025!
Hurdles + Accelerators
Hurdles are obstacles that make participants slow down, evaluate, practice, and then make the leap to better support teaching and learning.
Accelerators are megatrends that drive change – sometimes suddenly and sometimes so gradually the implications aren’t readily apparent.
Tech Enablers
Tech Enablers are tools that support smoother leaps over the hurdles and expansive changes in global K-12 Education.
Thank you to our Initiative Sponsors:
EdTech Innovation Committee Impact Summary
Featured Resources
Highlights from the 2024 Driving K-12 Innovation Summit
We're still dancing to the Spotify playlist, thinking about this week's stellar Summit and the release of the 2024 Driving K-12 Innovation report.
From the insightful case studies and resources shared to the modified Delphi activity led by Advisory Board members Ruben Puentedura and Stacy Hawthorne to the spot-on advice from attendees, there's just so much to celebrate. Thank you for registering for the Summit!
Kelly May-Vollmar (United States), and Jason Zagami (Australia), presented during CoSN's 2024 Driving K-12 Innovation Summit.
Summit Resources to Help Spark Innovation
Graphic facilitation from Summit co-host Karina Branson (ConverSketch).
- Slide deck for even more stories and advice from the Summit, including bonus videos and presenter resources
- Watch the full recording of the 2024 Driving K-12 Innovation Summit
- Summit co-host Karina Branson (ConverStetch) synthesized our conversation and stories with her graphic facilitation! Download her graphic facilitation summaries
- View slides from Ruben and Stacy's Modified Delphi Process activity: Designing with Intersections
2024 Advisory Board members Holly Doe and Teshon Christie (both from the United States), presented during this year's Driving K-12 Innovation Summit.
Join the 2025 Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board
Express your interest in the 2025 Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board by completing the short form today.
You're Not Alone: Building a Stronger EdTech Community
While Summit participants enjoyed lively conversation in the breakout rooms, Ad Board Members Ruben Puentedura and Stacy Hawthorne (both United States) conducted a modified Delphi activity to identify the Accelerators and Tech Enablers that the participants felt were most important in combating the 2024 Hurdles. They also stressed the importance of finding the intersections between the Top Topics.
Thanks so much for spending time with us and your fellow K-12 education changemakers this week! If you'll be sharing the link to the 2024 report and your participation on your social networks, thank you for using our project hashtag: #drivingk12innovation.
While the Summit may be over, we'll continue to amplify our Advisory Board members' voices and share the tools and resources to help you drive innovation throughout the year.
As we mentioned in the Summit, remember: you are not alone in this work. Always know that there is a community of global EdTech leaders who are right alongside you on this thrilling/challenging/exhilarating/exhausting/inspiring triathlon of innovation. Let the 2024 Driving K-12 Innovation report be a reminder for you of just that.
Warmly,
Laura & Stephanie
Roadmap to Innovation
CoSN’s Roadmap to Innovation newsletter provides education changemakers with the tools needed to accelerate change in their districts, at their organizations, and in the K-12 ecosystem around the globe.
