Education technology is at a crossroads—AI and research have unprecedented potential, but realizing their impact requires deep alignment across educators, students, caregivers, and the learning sciences.
Education system transformation requires seeing challenges interdisciplinarily. And synthesis across the many voices to cut through the noise.
After more than 15 years of working in research, classrooms, school district central offices, edtech startups, and philanthropy, Jared noticed persistent challenges in building, selecting, adopting, and using technology to support students, educators, and leaders in their pursuit of learning for students. Edtech organizations struggle to balance needs, perspectives, priorities of educators and students with research findings and product development processes. His team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) focused on bridging these challenges to build more equitable, accessible, and effective educational technology.
Prior to joining the Education team at CZI, Jared served as Chief of Staff in the Department of Technology at San Francisco Unified School District, and before that, as a product and customer success manager at Sokikom — a supplemental math edtech tool. Jared’s initial experience in systems-level work in education were human capital strategy and Race to the Top implementation in the Boston Public Schools, where his team worked to improve the evaluation, hiring, and racial diversity of educators in Boston classrooms.
Jared began his career in public education as a bilingual math and science teacher at the Next Step Public Charter School in Washington, DC. He earned his Ed.M. with a concentration in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy.
Meet Jared
Jared Joiner
Founder, Managing Director