Jared is a former high school Social Studies teacher turned “EdTech Thinker, Tinkerer, and Coach.” He is an Instructional Technology Coach for a small private school in Columbia, South Carolina after 16 years in public school. Jared’s passion for impactful technology use in the classroom began early on in his career when he was introduced to the LCD projector and a “Smart Board.” Then he began tinkering with computers for his students to use and getting his Masters in Educational Technology in 2011.
In 2017, Jared and his school were one of the first 50 schools to join the Dynamic Learning Project, an instructional coaching research project through Google for Education, Digital Promise, and EdTechTeam, and remained with it for all three years. He has lived and breathed what a coaching model can do to impact a school community by using and leveraging technology in impactful ways.
Jared is a Google for Education Certified Coach, Trainer, and Innovator. Jared is passionate about empowering teachers to not be afraid of technology integration in teaching and learning, but to use it to innovate their practices to impact student learning in meaningful ways through coaching, mentoring, & speaking at conferences.