2026 INCTO Clinic

Discover how a strategic shared-services agreement can revitalize district infrastructure while optimizing fiscal resources. In this session, Superintendent Trent McCormick and Technology Director Ben Burris share their firsthand experience rebuilding technology departments across multiple districts.
The presenters will break down the dual benefits of this model: achieving significant cost savings for school corporations while providing increased compensation for the director. Burris will provide a deep dive into the operational logistics of managing two distinct districts simultaneously, while McCormick offers the administrative perspective on overseeing a shared-services agreement from the superintendent?s office.
Key Takeaways:
The Financial Win-Win: Learn how to structure an agreement that reduces district overhead while offering a more competitive salary for top-tier talent.
Operational Logistics: Strategies for managing dual calendars, distinct staff cultures, and competing technical priorities without burnout.
Administrative Oversight: Guidance for Superintendents on drafting, implementing, and evaluating a shared-services contract.
Scalable Infrastructure: How to use shared leadership to standardize and modernize technology across district lines.

K-12 technology teams are being asked to do more than ever, all while managing increasing cybersecurity and student safety risks.

In this session, we'll walk through eight critical audits every district should be running across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 to uncover hidden vulnerabilities and gain better visibility into daily activity.

We?ll explore real-world risks like third-party app access, suspicious logins, unsafe file sharing, phishing attempts, inappropriate student behavior, VPN usage, and device-related concerns. You?ll learn how to spot these issues early and take action before they escalate.

You'll leave with practical, easy-to-implement strategies to strengthen compliance, speed up investigations, and take a more proactive approach to protecting both data and students.

Whether your priority is security, safety, or visibility, this session will give you actionable insights you can start using right away.

Hard Hats & Smart Classrooms focuses on practical tips and proven strategies to help K12 school construction and renovation projects run more smoothly.

Please join Bill Rader, Director of Technology at Danville Community School Corporation, as he shares real-world lessons learned, common pitfalls to avoid, and simple planning techniques that improve communication, reduce surprises, and keep projects on track. Attendees will gain actionable insights on coordinating with architects, construction managers, contractors, and technology teams to ensure construction decisions support efficient implementation and future-ready learning spaces.

In K12, the best tech decisions aren’t about chasing shiny new tools. They’re about protecting what really counts: learning, data, and daily operations. Join us for a lively, hands-on conversation about using a simple RACI framework to figure out what your team should handle and what might be better to outsource.  
We’ll share practical ways to frame your technology investments so they connect with what Superintendents and Boards care about most like compliance, security, and keeping things running smoothly. You’ll walk away with a clear plan for where your team’s time makes the biggest impact and how the right partners can help reduce risk, improve reliability, and give your staff more time to focus on instruction.

Our school corporation has begun leveraging AI to build custom web applications that solve real-world problems for our teams. To be clear, we aren?t professional developers, and this is not a technical "how-to-code" session. Instead, we want to show how we have used emerging tools to bridge the gap between identifying a need and creating a functional solution. In this session we will be sharing how this initiative began and provide a high-level look at our process for building and refining apps without a traditional programming background.

We will demo several live applications we?ve already deployed and facilitate a candid discussion about the hurdles we?ve encountered along the way. Our goal is to provide an honest look at our journey. We would like to share the struggles, the successes, and lessons we have learned along the way. We look forward to sharing what we have discovered regarding these tools, and what we?ve learned while navigating this new frontier.