Application Window Open: CTO Academy for K-12 Early Career and Aspiring CTOs 2025-26
1 November 2024–1 September 2025
The CTO Academy For K-12 Early Career and Aspiring CTOs is a program to address the needs of education technology leaders who are new (less than four full years) to their CTO or Technology Leadership position or aspiring CTOs and EdTech leaders currently working in a technology department. Participants will have the opportunity to develop edtech leadership…
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Addressing the Digital Divide: Current State and Guidance for Education Leaders
20 March 2025
Presented by Ji Soo Song, Director of Projects and Initiatives, SETDA; Brad Hagg, Director of Educational Technology, Indiana Department of Education; Emily Jordan, Vice President, Foundation and Education Initiatives, Connected Nation; and Delia DeCourcy, Senior Education Strategist, Lenovo Sponsored by Lenovo, in association with Google for Education The digital divide continues across K-12 in terms of technology…
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Cybersecurity Online Workshop: Cybersecurity on a Shoestring Budget (NEW start date)
25 March 2025–27 March 2025
Free registration for small districts in states with a CoSN State Membership. Contact Shelly Branstetter at sbranstetter@cosn.org for details. This interactive online workshop is designed to help K-12 technology leaders and decision-makers enhance their cybersecurity posture without straining limited budgets. Recognizing the growing challenges of protecting student data and securing school networks in resource-constrained environments,…
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Cybersecurity in K-12 Schools Facilitated Online Course Spring 2025 (New Dates)
9 April 2025–28 May 2025
What can the information technology professional do to secure school systems’ information infrastructure? CoSN has designed an online course focusing on enterprise security issues for school technology staff. Learn the fundamentals of IT security and provide advanced persistent protection for your students’ information. This seven-week facilitated online course will help IT staff learn the fundamentals…
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Cybersecurity Insider Threat: Employee – Incident Response Facilitated Online Workshop #1
15 April 2025–29 April 2025
Register your team for this Cybersecurity tabletop exercise where participants explore their roles during a cybersecurity incident threat and their responses on this particular emergency situation. Employee insider threat is the first of a series of three online workshops offered by CoSN this summer. Tuesday, April 15, 2025 10:00-11:00 AM ET Tuesday, April 22, 2025…
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Project Management for K-12 School System Technology Leaders Facilitated Online Course Spring 2025
15 April 2025–27 May 2025
CoSN is pleased to offer the first-ever project management course that focuses on the unique needs and challenges of school system technology leaders. Using thought leadership resources and best practices, this course is aligned to CoSN’s Framework of Essential Skills for the K-12 Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the foundation for the nationally-accredited Certified Education Technology…
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Cybersecurity Insider Threat: Student – Incident Response Facilitated Online Workshop #2
6 May 2025–20 May 2025
Register your team for this Cybersecurity tabletop exercise where participants explore their roles during a cybersecurity incident threat and their responses on this particular emergency situation. Student insider threat is the second of a series of three online workshops offered by CoSN this summer. May 6, 2025 10:00-11:00 AM ET May 13, 2025 10:00-11:00 AM…
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Value of Investment + Value of Instruction = VOI² in K-12 Education Facilitated Online Workshop
8 May 2025–22 May 2025
K-12 Education Technology (EdTech) investments are exponential, especially with the additional funding that has been provided through the pandemic. With millions of dollars being spent on EdTech solutions and services, the need to show Value of Investment and Value of Instruction has never been greater. Join a team of EdTech leaders that will take a…
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Belonging & Inclusion Meetup
15 May 2025
Inspired by the powerful conversations we’ve had at the CoSN conference’s “Belonging & Inclusion Network Meetups”, CoSN’s Belonging & Inclusion Committee has launched a quarterly virtual series where CoSN members can meet in a safe virtual space to discuss their Belonging & Inclusion workplace and career successes and challenges. These Meetups are designed to be…
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CETL® K-12 CTO’s Framework of Essential Skills Foundation Facilitated Online Course Summer 2025
22 May 2025–7 August 2025
CoSN’s Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO is comprised of three primary professional categories in the education technology field: Leadership & Vision, Understanding the Educational Environment, and Managing Technology & Support Resources. Each of these categories includes 10 essential skill areas, outlining the responsibilities and knowledge needed to be a viable educational technology leader. Each…
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