Texas K-12 CTO Council Board Member Induction

for Frankie Jackson and Jennifer Miller

Frankie Jackson and Jennifer Miller were inducted as Board members for the Texas

K-12 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Council on June 21, 2017. Frankie will be

serving a two-year term as the Texas large district representative. Jennifer will be

serving a two-year term as secretary!

Both participated in a Board meeting on

the morning of June 21st. That afternoon,

Frankie gave a report on the Professional

Learning subcommittee accomplishments

for the 2016-2017 year.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 21 2017

Texas K-12 CTO Council Board Members

Texas K-12 CTO Council

Will Richardson Key Note Speaker

Will Richardson

Will Richardson was the keynote speaker at the Texas K-

12 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Council conference on

June 22, 2017. He gave an intriguing presentation on

Modern Learning. Here is a link to his slides.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 21 2017

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Student Data Privacy Consortium

The Texas K-12 CTO Council will be leading the

student data privacy alliance for Texas. Any CoSN/

CTO Council member district will get a free

membership into this consortium. The goal of this

alliance is to work with other organizations to develop

a standard agreement for vendors and districts to use

when completing the privacy portion of their

contracts. Attend this session to find out more about

how you can be part of this state-wide collaboration!

Jennifer Miller attended this session and enjoyed

hearing from Karen Fuller, Raul Alanis, Steve

Smith, and Larry Fruth II. Steve and Larry talked

about they had begun organizing in

Massachusetts to ensure student data was kept

private. Texas is excited about joining this

alliance. Jennifer has volunteered to serve in the

meetings to ensure that Cypress-Fairbanks is in

the forefront of this initiative. Items to be

discussed include the meeting arrangements

and support.

Student Data Privacy

ConsortiumKaren Fuller (HISD), Raul Alanis (HISD), Steve

Smith (Massachusetts), and Larry Fruth II

(Massachusetts)

June 23, 2017

Texas K-12 CTO Council Summer Clinic Student

Data Privacy and Northside ISD’s Phishing Attack

Will Richardson was the keynote speaker at the Texas K-12 Chief Technology

Officer (CTO) Council conference on June 22, 2017. He gave an intriguing

presentation on Modern Learning. Here is a link to his slides.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 22 2017

The Texas K-12 CTO Council will be

leading the student data privacy alliance for

Texas. Any CoSN/ CTO Council member

district will get a free membership into this

consortium. The goal of this alliance is to

work with other organizations to develop a

standard agreement for vendors and

districts to use when completing the privacy

portion of their contracts. This will be a

great way to participate in a state-wide

collaboration!

On August 12, 2016, Northisde ISD staff

were victims of a phishing attack.

Presenters shared their experience of

how our District's staff and students were

affected as well as their team's

response.

Northside ISD Phishing Attack and Their Plan of Action

Scott Monroe presented on a Holistic IT Strategy. As portfolio director for Public Sector Portfolio, Scott talked

about on Cloud, Advanced Security Threats, Mobility, and Big Data. He focused on how the IT landscape is

changing at faster pace than ever before. He advocated using a strategic and holistic approach to technology

investment, and offered ideas as to how to stay out in front of it.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 22, 2017

Texas K-12 CTO Council Summer Clinic Student

Holistic IT Strategy

Measuring What Matters

Bill Landis Sherry Mitchell

How do you measure success? K-12 education is often guilty of measuring input rather than output. Do you report

numbers of devices, bandwidth, and feelings about technology (surveys) or do you report what is actually

happening in the classroom! LISD first determined what our strategic goal should be related to technology. Using

the SAMR model we measured the use of technology in classrooms. Find out what 6,000 observations told us

about the use of technology.

Jennifer Miller enjoyed hearing how Lubbock ISD reviewed the

technology utilization in their schools. You may wonder why they

decided to measure. They felt that without the why - the what and

the how do not matter. LISD mission is that LISD will embrace and

sustain modern technology tools and digital resources as a fully

integrated system to equip, prepare, and empower future ready

learners. They believed that the learners and instructors should be

using technology in the classroom and that technology should change

what we do in classrooms. During the last 2 school years, the team

has completed at least 3,000 observations each year.

Click here to view the

presentation.

Boot Camp for New or

Aspiring CTO’sKevin Schwartz and Jennifer Miller

This session is designed for new and aspiring CTOs to help them with

strategies and skills of becoming a chief technology officer. Learn

about the Essential Skills Framework for CTOs and the Certified

Education Technology Leader (CETL) certification program. Come

meet practicing CTOs and find mentor that can assist you throughout

the year! Current CTOs can also benefit from this session!

Jennifer Miller had the pleasure of filling in for Frankie Jackson and

working with Kevin Schwartz (Chief Technology Officer, Austin ISD)

to present information to new CTOs and those aspiring to earn their

CETL certification. This session provided information regarding the

key components of the CTO role and the available support. The

session concluded with information regarding the Framework for the

CTO Role and information regarding the CETL certification exam.

Click here to view the presentation.

This is the final session for People Skills training. This is for people who

have ben participating in the online training this spring. Betty Burks was

our facilitator and has more than 30 years of experience in public education.

She has served as a teacher, principal, and administrator in large urban,

suburban and rural districts throughout Texas. Most recently she served as

deputy superintendent for teaching and learning in San Antonio

Independent School District (SAISD). Before joining SAISD, Betty served as

Associate Executive Director of Instructional Support and Leadership

Development for the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA).

Jennifer Miller thoroughly enjoyed the final session

of this interactive workshop. The majority of our

leadership team has worked through the information

that ended with a 360O evaluative review from our

peers and team mates. This information provided

much for our team to digest and review.

People Skills Training

Betty Burk

Persuader

Controller

Stabilizer

Analyzer

SSL Decryption

This session attended by Greg Rhodes detailed Northwest

ISD's solution for decrypting SSL to meet the requirements of

CIPA, to provide data safety, and to protect against

Ransomware. The solution was a joint effort of NetSync, F5,

and Cisco.

Security without Sacrifice

Greg Rhodes attended this session by Michael

Knight of Encore describing their solution for identity

provisioning and Single Sign-On (SSO). Their

solution has ties to Microsoft's Azure and

Sharepoint.

Managing a Multi-Client

Environment

Greg Rhodes attended this session presented by

the technology leaders at Richardson ISD. They

presented their solutions for managing users and

devices in Windows, Apple, Google, and the

Internet. Products used included Microsoft

SCCM, JamPro, Clever, Cisco WSA, and

GoGuardian.

Bond Planning, Rollout and

Management

Greg Rhodes provided

support along with

Larry Barrios to this

session presented by

John Crumbley of

CFISD (left), Dianne

Borreson of Hays

CISD (middle), and

Karen Fuller of

Houston ISD (right).

Each talked to their

bond experience,

providing helps and

tips.

The general theme

throughout was plan,

plan, plan and

communicate,

communicate,

communicate.

The Consortium for School

Networking (COSN) held their

2017 TexasCTO Summer Clinic

on June 22 & 23 in San Antonio,

Texas.

John Crumbley had the

opportunity to present Bond

Planning, Rollout and

Management on behalf of

Frankie Jackson. He was joined

by Karen Fuller with Houston ISD

and Diane Borreson with Hayes

CISD.

In the session, John highlighted

CFISD’s BOND2014 and the

“Indicators for Success.

Diane Borreson Karen Fuller John Crumbley

Bond Planning, Rollout and

Management

People Skills Workshop

Greg Rhodes completed the People Skills course started

back in the spring with this workshop led by Betty Burks

(right). The workshop began with a refresh and review of

the 4 behavior styles: Analyzer, Persuader, Controller, and

Stabilizer. This was followed by an analysis of the 360

Report developed from the surveys of individuals selected

by the class members; the report was specific to each

class member, providing insight of how they are perceived

by those they work with or manage.

The Russians, Yahoo and

Ransomware

Greg Rhodes attended this session by David

Carpenter of Huffman ISD (right). David discussed

the security breaches at the Democratic National

Convention, the compromise of millions of Yahoo

accounts, and the exploits of Ransomware. He

suggested using anomaly based detection, focusing

on what is leaving the network rather than what is

coming in. David also recommended doing table-top

scenarios and using encryption on the drives and in

transport.

Sucker Punches

Greg Rhodes attended the seesion by Erich Kron of

KnowBe4 (right). Erich talked about spear phishing

and social engineering to breach domains. He

provided tips to red flag questionable emails by

looking at the reply address, line spacing, font

changes, and hovering over links .

Improving Access to Digital

Resources with SSO

Greg Rhodes attended the session presented by Jan

Mills of ClassLink (right). Jan talked about the

advantages and benefits of their product for providing

Single Sign-On (SSO) and presenting applications

specific to an user's identity. The ClassLink product also

allows access to on premises files without needing a VPN

connection. With the product, analytics may be

performed to see who is using what apps along with the

capability to impersonate users to view their dashboards

for support.

Lewisville ISD’s Path to the

Trusted Learning Seal

Necessary Components:

• Data Security Culture

• Director overseeing

Cyber Security

Why TLE?

Critical issue

Tech Plan

Internal Assessments

External validation

Learning exercise

Balance governance &

innovation

5 Part Framework

1. Leadership

2. Business

Contract neg

Compliance

3. Data Security

4. Professional development

Security training

5. Classroom

Approach

• Framework

Submission criteria

Portfolio of evidence

Evaluate evidence

Narrative response to each

artifact

• Complete the application

Draft / review / submit

• COSN feedback with scores

Comparison district data

• Share ownership of award

YouTu.be/JKmWhd7LlXI

Lewisville’s CTO Bryon

Kolbeck and David Koince

shared their journey to

achieving the Trusted

Learning Environment

(TLE) Seal.

Friday Morning –

Committee Meetings