Clarity Innovations is based in Portland, Oregon employing a network of dedicated engineers, experienced content writers, and talented instructional designers that extends across the country.
We’re a band of brave innovators exploring new forms of deepening and extending learning experiences across multiple media platforms. In fact, we view the entire world as a potential classroom, a venue ripe for participatory learning. The key is in connecting with a learner on a meaningful level. To do this, you must engage them with an alternative to the traditional while helping them to unlock new creativity, wonder, or knowledge within themselves.
We are always seeking individuals that share our vision, have passion for education, and are comfortable with working in a dynamic organization that achieves results for our clients and makes a difference for educators.
Making websites scale in terms of usability and performance has always been a part of what Frank does. Frank is an enthusiastic devotee of Drupal, the widely used open source content management system known for its flexibility and versatility at creating a wide range of solutions. Frank applies his deep expertise in the architecture of Drupal to make solutions accessible, responsive and successful. Read more about Frank Anderson
Dale is an award-winning writer, author, content developer and creative director with twenty years of professional experience in journalism, advertising, marketing, publishing, technology and education. He’s gifted at providing creative, authoritative content and strategy that spans a diverse range of needs, circumstances, formats and audiences. He’s excellent at synthesizing complex information into actionable, easy-to-understand content and enjoys employing his extensive skills to create powerful experiences that engage, inspire and exceed expectations. Read more about Dale Basye
Steve has worked for Clarity Innovations since 2002 and is currently the Director of Strategy. He oversees the development of new solutions for Clarity's clients. This process typically involves blending research-based practices with emerging technologies. He's paying a lot of attention right now to the education potential of emerging ecosystems as well as how changes in digital publishing are affecting teaching and learning in the classroom. Read more about Steven Burt
Supporting and inspiring teams so that they can support and inspire is no simple feat. But Dana makes it look easy. Dana arrived at Clarity with an extensive background of managing teams and creating content for a virtual “who’s who” of ed-tech companies, including Renaissance Learning, Questar, NWEA, Learn Zillion, Learning.com, Edgenuity, LeapFrog, and Amplify. Read more about Dana Canaday
Deeply engaged. Voraciously curious. Eager to share. Talks the talk. Walks the walk.Tavia has nearly two decades of invaluable experience in coaching, leading, creating and developing learning experiences using innovative pedagogical methods, and in fostering powerful face-to-face and online learning opportunities. Read more about Tavia Clark
Dale Cody excels at bringing clients closer to their audiences with the best possible conceptual ideas and instructional design solutions possible. As an award-winning educator, Creative Director and published author, Dale employs the power of structured narrative and storytelling to underpin virtually everything he does. Then he brings them to life with innovative, engaging, and immersive solutions driven by cutting edge design and technology. Read more about Dale Cody
With a background in technology spanning nearly 30 years, John brings a range of experiences and demonstrated success in developing software and websites for both children and adults. During this time, he has developed products in consumer, education and business markets, resulting in more than 25 major releases. Read more about John Cromett
Kelly takes her deep knowledge as a software engineer and deftly merges that with her in-the-trenches experience as a classroom educator and reading specialist. This is why she’s so brilliant at creating technology that helps make learning accessible and engaging for educators and the students they serve. Read more about Kelly de Vries
With a background in early childhood education and instructional technology, Lisa brings a diverse wealth of knowledge to her position as an instructional designer. In her 10 years of experience as a classroom teacher, Lisa knows first-hand how technology can be used to develop early literacy, math, and science skills. She was a leader in her district for educational technology, writing grants and piloting technology programs in her school. Read more about Lisa Fisher
As Clarity’s Infrastructure & Systems Manager, Jon maintains all aspects of our technology infrastructure: servers, applications, processes and support. His effort enables us to collaborate, grow and adapt to emerging trends in technology. When he’s not managing Clarity’s infrastructure systems, he advises clients about best practices for system design scale and support. Read more about Jon Fronza
Jake views the creative challenges facing Clarity clients as exciting opportunities to employ his formidable visual communication and problem-solving skills. He treats the design process as a deeply collaborative blend of unique consideration and careful planning, so that his graphic design solutions are always the perfect match for a client’s objectives. Read more about Jake Green
Stefanie is dedicated to helping educators transform classrooms into 21st century learning environments where all students and teachers can engage in relevant, meaningful, and deep learning experiences augmented by emerging technologies. Stefanie has worn many hats in the field of education and educational technology over the last 25 years ⎼ as an adult education teacher, a middle school classroom teacher, a teacher trainer, and currently as a Content Developer for Clarity Innovations. Read more about Stefanie Hausman
Tod’s decade of classroom teaching gives him vital, in-the-trenches education expertise. In his most recent teaching assignment, he piloted a 1:1 classroom and saw first-hand the true potential of technology in the hands of students. Now, Tod draws on his teaching experience to create content that helps schools and educators effectively use technology to enhance learning. As a member of Clarity’s content team, Tod uses his strengths as a writer to author instructional materials: including both online and face-to-face professional learning courses for educators and student-facing curriculum Read more about Tod Johnston.
For 25 years, Jonathan has created groundbreaking educational and entertainment media for children. His early career started in the computer gaming industry as an art director, before designing and producing games for preschool and elementary audiences. Over the years his focus has turned to educational titles and tools for grades K-12, as well as writing and consulting on children’s books and instructional products.
Read more about Jonathan Maier
As a Software Engineer, Luke develops engaging applications for education. He works with a large variety of different environments and technologies, adapting to the needs of a project. Luke also supports our projects with his creative approach to quality assurance testing, documentation, and streamlining the automation of tasks.
Read more about Luke D. Maier
John works behind the scenes with financial and operational acumen to ensure Clarity's long-term success and growth. When joining Clarity in 2002, John brought with him extensive finance, operations, and customer support management experience within the banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce industries. Read more about John Marini
No matter how robust an ed-tech tool may be, if it doesn’t support learning in the trenches (that is to say, in the classroom) then it’s useless. Thank goodness for Clarity’s assurer of maximum technical quality, A.J. McGladdery. Read more about A.J. McGladdery
Jeff sees the Web as a vast, digital tool belt: a launching pad for highly functional software that solves problems and reveals new possibilities. That’s why he is dedicated to creating powerful user experiences with every project—for organizations both large and small—that crosses his path. Jeff is a Drupal dynamo, and his background in visual design as well as information architecture makes for solutions that truly perform and look good doing it. Read more about Jeff Ong
Whether it’s comprehensive research into an exciting new platform, digging deeper to connect a client with the ultimate solution, or supporting her team into taking the next big idea from the whiteboard to the classroom, Allison keeps track of the many details that can make or break an initiative.
Read more about Allison Parker
Thor Prichard leads Clarity Innovations and its team of education practitioners, designers, and technology professionals using their blended expertise to help clients improve the process and practice of teaching and learning in a global society. Read more about R. Thor Prichard
Finding a gifted iOS Software Engineer is one thing. But finding one with a Masters in Education is something else entirely. Clarity struck ed-tech gold when we found Tim! Read more about Tim Rayle
As a middle school teacher, Kailey is passionate about pursuing educational solutions that keep students at the forefront of their learning experience. She has taken this passion beyond the classroom to various onsite and virtual classrooms of teachers around the world, having authored and piloted various curricula and led webinars on both education technology as well as pedagogical hotspots such as curriculum development and teaching grammar. Kailey teaches 6th grade mathematics at a nearby arts school, where students spend just as much time in academic subjects as arts classes. Read more about Kailey Rhodes
Marc is comfortable working in a variety of development environments such as Java (Android), C++, JavaScript, HTML and PHP. His engineering expertise is invaluable in Clarity’s mobile apps efforts, as well as supporting the growing number of Drupal web applications we have created. Read more about Marc Sandoval
Cecilia takes complex ideas and communicates them with powerful visuals that engage, educate and inspire. She designs and produces digital and print materials for a wide variety of clients, programs, multifarious uses and media. Read more about Cecilia Singer
Greg has worked with educators and technology for over fifteen years. He loves the process of learning new technologies and using them to pragmatically solve real-word problems in education: working with educators to understand what they need, communicating possible solutions, and building tools that are simple-to-use. Greg’s background in systems thinking, technology management, software engineering and user support makes him a natural at using and developing these type of solutions using Drupal and other modern, open-source platforms. Read more about Greg Watson
After three years of leading our quality assurance processes, Simone quickly expanded her expertise into software engineering, theming, and accessibility, and now serves as one of our full-time software engineers. Simone is involved in a variety of client projects, contributing to the coding, debugging, and troubleshooting the solutions we build for clients. She also coordinates with other software engineers and client leads to identify and assess improvements in usability and accessbility to ensure a more inclusive design of our solutions. Read more about Simone Wood
We help our clients improve the process and practice of teaching and learning. We identify and research the effectiveness of promising technology years before market adoption. We apply this expertise to help clients with product and marketing strategy, content development, and rapid prototyping.
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1001 SE Water Avenue, Suite 400
Portland, Oregon 97214
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