Veteran K–12 CTO Shares His Tips for Designing the School Network of Your Dreams

Taking on a K–12 school network transformation can be expensive, complicated, time-consuming and — if you make the wrong move — disappointing to thousands of end users.
To help you avoid those missteps, EdTech turned to Kyle Berger, CTO for the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Texas and one of EdTech’s 2022 K–12 IT influencers.
Berger has 22 years of experience as a school CTO and has been at GCISD, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex for five years. The district has been one-to-one for 10 years, and switching to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic took only 24…

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