FETC 2020

Susan Bearden
Chief Innovation Officer
Consortium for School Networking


Susan M. Bearden, CETL is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Consortium for School Networking. She previously served as a Senior Education Pioneers Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of Educational Technology where she led the 2017 update of federal government’s K-12 school infrastructure guide, Building Technology Infrastructure for Learning. A former K12 technology director and author of “Digital Citizenship: A Community-Based Approach,” she has received numerous awards including the 2019 ATLIS Pillar Award, being named one of the Center for Digital Education’s 2015 “Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and Trailblazers,” the 2015 “Making IT Happen” Award from FSTE, and the 2014 Bammy Award for School Technologist.

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