Bridging innovation & implementation.
Twenty-five years of making technology work in real schools. Today I lead AI adoption across a whole district, and I talk about what actually happens when you try it, from the classroom to the boardroom.
Every talk, interview and episode since 2023, as one waveform.
Hover a bar to see what it is. Filter by format. It all comes back to one question: how do you make AI work in real schools?
- Education Week
- K-12 Dive
- GovTech
- EdTech Magazine
- PBS Northwest Now
- The Seattle Times
- District Administration
- eSchool News
- AASA
Quoted where education gets decided.
Hear it unscripted.
From district cabinets to Stanford.
Keynotes, panels and hands-on workshops for superintendents, school boards, teachers, the people who build edtech for them, and local business groups.
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AI leadership, from policy to practice
Building a district-wide AI framework that works. As heard at the AASA AI Super Summit.
Inclusive intelligence: AI × UDL
Accessibility, privacy and Universal Design for Learning in AI-enhanced classrooms.
Secure, safe, ready
AI security, cloud modernization and readiness assessments using the CoSN maturity matrix.
Phones, screens & students
What one district learned from its cell phone policy, and what it means for student mental health.
A CIO who starts with the classroom.
Kris Hagel is Chief Information Officer of Peninsula School District in Gig Harbor, Washington, where he oversees IT, school safety and security, and leads the district's work on AI in classrooms and operations. He serves on the CoSN Board of Directors and holds the CETL credential.
Before that he was Executive Director of Digital Learning, rolled out a district-wide 1:1 program, and was CTO at 3W Education Consulting Group, building open educational resources.
- DA Top 100 · 2025
- CoSN Board
- CETL
- AWS Champion · 2025
- 25+ years in K-12
Bring Kris to your stage.
Keynotes & workshops
AI integration, digital transformation, leadership.
Technology audits
Peer reviews of IT departments and infrastructure.
Strategic consulting
AI readiness, strategic planning, executive and edtech advisory.