Leadership and Vision

Creating An Effective Superintendent / CTO Leadership Partnership

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM PT

Location: 503 / Duckabush

Target Audience: Superintendents & Senior Cabinet leaders (CBO/CFO/CAO/CTO/CIO); Experienced Ed Tech Leaders/CTO/CIO; New or Aspiring Ed Tech Leaders/CTO/CIO

Speaker(s)

Ann McMullan, MA

Education Leadership Consultant
Ann McMullan Education Consultant
Los Angeles, California
Kelly May-Vollmar, EdD (she/her/hers)

Superintendent
Desert Sands Unified School District
La Quinta, California
Jeff Dillon, PhD

Superintendent
Wilder. School District
Wilder, Idaho
Brian Daley, MA

Chief Information Officer
Blue Valley Schools
Overland Park, Kansas

The role technology plays in today’s K-12 educational environments has never been more vital nor more compelling. In order for any school district to succeed in both leveraging the opportunities that technology can provide across a school system, as well as addressing the challenges that technology presents, “human leadership” in the form of a close partnership between the superintendent and the CTO is essential. In this panel session two superintendents and a school district CTO define the processes they lead to assure that the strategies they have implemented in the working partnership between the superintendent and the CTO - as well as with others at both the district level and in their individual schools - are effective in meeting the ever-changing technology needs of their districts.
Participants will interact with the panel by both asking questions and responding to questions and ideas presented to the audience by the superintendent/CTO panel.

Key Take Aways:

The audience will be invited to share both the successful strategies and the challenges they have experienced in creating a strong district leadership partnership between the superintendent and the CTO and other cabinet level positions.
The audience will learn how the three superintendents on the panel have developed and continue to build the collaborative partnership between the superintendent and the IT staff.
The audience will learn why and how the superintendents’ school districts are currently dealing with the challenges presented by AI, cybersecurity, data privacy and more.