Ms. Frankie Jackson

Frankie Jackson is a nationally recognized Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in K-12, leading education technology initiatives for 25+ years at the state and national levels, working in large districts with students between 25K-116K. She is a Project Director for CoSN and the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Texas Education Technology Leaders. She also consults independently as an education technology leader and success advocate. As a member of CoSN’s policy committee and CoSN’s advisory board for Driving K-12 Innovation, she authors CTO instructional content. She is a subject matter expert for CoSN’s Certified Education Technology Leader (CETL) program. Her unique value proposition in the K-12 industry is her technical and leadership expertise combined with performance excellence frameworks, including the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Baldrige Education program, the essential skills of CoSN’s CETL program, ITIL service management, the methodologies from best practices of the APQC and the information technology elements of ASBO and TASBO. Additionally, she is a John Maxwell-certified coach and mentor, providing a distinctive blend of soft skills often needed in the technology field. As a lifelong learner, she recently became certified as a NIST Cybersecurity Practitioner.