“Using JASON Learning modules during instruction helped to increase students’ capacity to critically think using real-world examples.“
-Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Portsmouth Public Schools
Since 1989, JASON Learning has impacted and inspired millions of students and teachers through STEM education and exploration.
There is no other innovative, digital-first library of STEM curriculum and resources in the PreK-12 education market that engages students, teachers, and the community more than JASON. Over the last 30 years, JASON has progressed from satellite broadcasting to an innovative Digital Platform and currently reaches over 5 million students nationwide and engages them in STEM education and exploration. JASON does this through its hundreds of digital resources, experiential activities, and opportunities to solve real-world problems like climate change, broadband Internet access, and microplastic pollution.
Independent evaluation has proven that JASON’s approach significantly improves student participation, interest, and academic achievement, with the largest gains realized in under-represented and underserved student populations (Duke, 2014).
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Curriculum Collections
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States & International
6
Students & Educators Reached
90
School Districts
2,000
Activities & Resources per Grade Level
JASON's Reach
These numbers are reflective of districts enrolled in JASON’s District Model. This does not reflect individual schools or teachers with JASON subscriptions or those using JASON’s open-source materials.
Arizona
- Nadaburg Unified School District 81 (992 students)
- Morristown Elementary District 75 (135 students)
Arkansas
- Shirley School District (336 students)
Connecticut
- Windham School District (3,194 students)
- EASTCONN (Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy) (542 students)
District of Columbia (DC)
- DC Public Schools (49,896 students)
New York
- Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES (16,995 students)
- Genessee Valley CSD (524 students)
- Keshequa Central School District (524 students)
Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Public Schools (41,043 students)
Ohio
- Barnesville Exempted Village (1,377 students)
- Bellaire Local (1,121 students)
- Belmont-Harrison Career Centers (345 students)
- Bridgeport Exempted Village (786 students)
- Buckeye Career Center (806 students)
- Caldwell Exempted Village (736 students)
- Cambridge City (1,845 students)
- Carrollton Exempted Village (1,834 students)
- Claymont City (1,709 students)
- Conotton Valley Union Local (494 students)
- Dover City (2,636 students)
- East Guernsey Local (1,082 students)
- East Holmes Local ( 1,494 students)
- Fort Frye Local (915 students)
- Frontier Local (543 students)
- Garaway Local (1,083 students)
- Indian Hill Exempted Village (2,131 students)
- Indian Valley (1,708 students)
- London City School District (2,112 students)
- Marietta City (2,255 students)
- Martins Ferry (1,389 students)
- Mid-East Career & Technology Center – Buffalo Campus (942 students)
- Morgan Local Schools (1,664 students)
- New Philadelphia City (2,843 students)
- Noble Local School District (969 students)
- Rolling Hills Local (1,21 students)
- Shadyside Local (1,632 students)
- St. Clairsville Richland City (555 students)
- St. Patrick’s School (208 students)
- Switzerland of Ohio Local (1,938 students)
- Tuscarawas Valley Local ( 1,254 students)
- Union Local (1,433 students)
- Warren Local Schools (1,980 students)
- Wolf Creek Local Schools (584 students)
Rhode Island
- Smithfield Public Schools (2,392 students)
- West Warwick Public Schools (3,562 students)
Texas
- Aldine ISD (61,633 students)
- Alief ISD (40,664 students)
- Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (117,217 students)
- Gustine ISD (130 students)
- Houston ISD (194,607 students)
- Killeen ISD (43,838 students)
- Seguin ISD (7,064 students)
- Skidmore-Tynan ISD (786 students)
- Spring ISD (33,425 students)
- Taft ISD (888 students)
- Tomball ISD (20,262 students)
Virginia
- Alexandria City Schools (15,674 students)
- Arlington County Schools (27,027 students)
- Caroline County Schools (4,238 students)
- Colonial Beach Schools (625 students)
- Essex County Schools (1,393 students)
- Fairfax County Schools (178,479 students)
- Fredericksburg City Schools (3,624 students)
- Gloucester County Schools (2,315 students)
- King George County Schools (4,467 students)
- King and Queen County Schools (867 students)
- King William County Schools (1,983 students)
- Loudoun County Schools (81,131 students)
- Mathews County Schools (903 students)
- Middlesex County Schools (1,202 students)
- Norfolk Public Schools (27,478 students)
- Petersburg City Schools (4,178 students)
- Portsmouth Public Schools (13,517 students)
- Richmond City Schools (21,177 students)
- Stafford County Schools (30,435 students)
- Virginia Beach City Public Schools (65,450 students)
- Westmoreland Public Schools (1,531 students)
- West Point Public Schools (813 students)
West Virginia
- Doddridge County Schools (1,082 students)
- Mercer County Schools (8,642 students)
- Monongalia County Schools (11,309 students)
JASON Learning's Impact in Ohio
Three Ohio school districts: Warren Local School District, Switzerland of Ohio School District, and Noble Local School District, received a grant providing access to JASON for 2021-2023. As evidenced by the impressive improvement in Science performance, JASON Learning’s STEM Library is critical to instructional improvement and addressing and surpassing learning gaps due to COVID closures.
JASON Learning's Impact in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
“Unless education in mathematics, engineering, and the sciences is made more effective for all students and more attractive to potential faculty members, and especially to the presently underrepresented [students], both the quality and number of newly educated professionals…will fall well below the Nation’s needs.” —National Science Board report (NSB, 1986, p. 2)
The Louisiana State University College of the Coast & Environment (LSU CC&E) developed a multi-faceted strategic initiative to increase its diversity, equity, and inclusion (full article linked here). Here’s how JASON Learning helped in this endeavor:
The Eva Legard Center for Coastal & Environmental Studies is a public school in Baton Rouge that opened in 2021. It caters to grades 6-12 students and integrates the coastal environment into its curriculum, activities, clubs, and events. LSU CC&E played a key role in launching the school, offering teacher training, curriculum support, field trips, recruitment assistance, and student/parent coaching—all designed to prepare qualified graduates for CC&E’s Coastal Environmental Science program. JASON Learning assisted the launch of this school by providing standards-aligned curricula and resources that align with the school’s scope and sequence and providing supporting professional development for educators.
LSU CC&E’s activities extend beyond Baton Rouge in collaboration with JASON Learning. Co-hosted by JASON and CC&E, superintendents from across the nation traveled to LSU in 2022 to attend AASA’s (The School Superintendents Association; https://www.aasa.org/) STEM Leadership Consortium workshop.
These are part of the longer-term approach to diversifying the LSU CC&E’s student body by increasing student interest in coastal and environmental studies at the middle and high school levels.
JASON Learning's Logic Model
This logic model presents a visual representation of what we do at JASON Learning and a road map of how our inputs and resources lead to impactful outcomes.
How Does JASON Increase Engagement in Learning?
- By enhancing student learning through active student engagement. Students who learn with JASON are learning through activities beyond writing, reading, and listening to immersive activities requiring collaboration and encouraging critical thinking.
- Giving every child no matter who they are or what zip code they live in access to STEM. JASON provides quality, integrated STEM education to all students, high-quality professional development training for all teachers, and exposing students to role models like them who have developed successful STEM careers.
- Creating curricula that align with national and state standards, which helps teachers seamlessly integrate our activities and lessons into the traditional curriculum.
- Making real-world connections within the material to deepen student learning. Teachers can connect the information within the activities to major concepts and principles of STEM and the arts as well as real-world events and issues. JASON’s lessons and activities are embedded into the traditional course curriculum.
- Engaging stakeholders to improve student learning outcomes. Community and parent involvement helps schools fulfill their mission to help all students succeed in school, which is why JASON allows schools to share access to JASON with community partners (YMCA, Boys/Girls Club, Boy/Girls Scouts, 4H programs, summer camps, etc.).
- Implementing experiential learning events to increase student participation. Schools can utilize JASON’s curriculum and resources to solve issues facing their local community, which will help students feel more personally invested in the material.
Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, JASON conducted more than 50 professional development workshops, training over 2,900 teachers. Between October 2022 and November 2023, 3,220 educators across 280 school districts received professional development.
Notably, in Portsmouth Public Schools, where 85% of students come from low-income backgrounds, teachers who utilized JASON with fidelity saw significant academic improvements on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) End of Course exams. One middle school science teacher, a JASON trainer, achieved a pass rate 15% higher than the district average.
Reflecting on this success, the teacher shared, “It means the world to me to see how JASON has helped me improve scores by feeding students’ interests in STEM while quenching their thirst for knowledge, which will assist them in having a life that is full of possibilities they never thought they could reach.”
