Jared Matas

Jared brings to Ounce IT two decades of teaching experience in a wide range of classrooms including kindergarten, middle school and university. Jared has also worked as a Tech Director and an educational consultant leading teacher professional development on topics such as project-based learning, STEAM integration, coding and remote teaching. Jared loves helping teachers expand their capacities to use technology as a tool for encouraging a student-centered approach to teaching and learning. Outside of work, Jared enjoys reading The New Yorker, listening to podcasts and watching shows with his teenage twins. Jared’s curiosity about the educational potential of technology was sparked as a child when he programmed a Logo turtle to move across the monitor of his Apple IIC.