About Tech EDVolution
Evolving Technology to Support Learning and Operations
Who we are
Tech EDVolution (TEDV) was founded to close a growing gap in education. School technology teams are asked to run operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, budgets and strategy at the same time, usually with little executive support. Long-term planning and governance are what slip. It isn’t always a capability problem. More often, it’s a capacity problem.
We add executive technology leadership where schools and education organizations need it most: strategy, governance, risk and board-level support, sized to the organization and its budget. We don’t do technical maintenance and we don’t sell products. We help leaders see where they stand and plan where they’re going.
What we believe
Staying compliant and maintaining a healthy technology baseline takes experienced executive support: the kind that keeps a school’s technology on track with its vision and goals.
TEDV provides that support, so school leaders can focus on what matters most: their students.
Our team
Leadership that has run district technology from the inside.
Dr. Monika Davis, Ed.D.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Dr. Monika Davis has spent more than 30 years in K-12 education technology. As Chief Information Officer of DeKalb County School District, Georgia’s third-largest, she led technology for 115,000+ users and a team of 170+, with 5+ years leading district technology, including interim terms.
She founded Tech EDVolution to give schools the executive technology leadership they need without the cost of a full-time hire. Her focus is the leadership side of technology: governance, risk, AI strategy and plans that boards can act on.
Selected results as CIO
- Managed a $41M annual budget and $60M+ in federal ESSER funds
- Justified $117.5M in SPLOST 6 technology funds and managed spending through project launch
- Led district AI governance: developed AI and IT security regulations and guides, a cross-functional AI team and a staff-wide AI course
- Launched the district’s cybersecurity department, aligned to NIST CSF with vCISO partners
- Led the shift from on-premises to cloud, transitioning critical applications (SIS, ERP, Azure)
- Partnered with the Chief Academic Officer to digitize curriculum for accessibility, and launched district-wide virtual learning
- Strengthened device management and security and built a sustainable refresh cycle for student and staff devices, including overseeing the replacement of 64,000 student Chromebooks with ESSER funds
- Defined the district’s requirements for vendor-built application-usage dashboards covering every app on student devices, including social media, and used the data to make software and adoption decisions
Featured in
- EdTech Magazine — “Strong Lifecycle Management Plans Can Support Successful One-to-One Programs in K–12” (April 2023). Device management, refresh planning and the district’s one-to-one program.
Education and teaching
- Ed.D. and Ed.S. in Instructional Technology, Kennesaw State University
- M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and M.S. in Instructional Technology, Georgia State University
- Part-time Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University School of Instructional Technology and Innovation, teaching technology leadership to Ed.S. and Ed.D. students
Speaking and service
- Speaker, Georgia Digital Government Summit; panelist at ISTE and the Future of Education Technology Conference
- Advisory boards: Kennesaw State University School of Instructional Technology and Innovation, Acer Education; Board of Directors, Sankofa Montessori School