Our Portfolio
“The team at Clarity does what I don’t have time to do as an administrator – they help me sort out what technologies I ought to be paying attention to. Then they show up in person and help us figure out how to use them effectively in the classroom with ideas that enhance and broaden instruction for our students.”
Tim Lauer, Principal
Portland Public Schools, Oregon
Fortune 500 Technology Company
Content & Interactive Media
We provide ongoing services for a Fortune 500 company’s worldwide education initiative. supplying the valuable "real world" educational expertise so the initiative can achieve it's national and international goal of integrating technology in the classroom and curriculum.Read more...
Organization for Educational Technology and Curriculum (“OETC”)
Web Site Development
The Web site to support OETC's professional development activities, though functional, was difficult to use for publishing and sharing materials or facilitating online collaboration among its users. Having pioneered several features for the first time in Drupal 5, the OETC was ready to build the next generation of its professional development Web site. OETC commissioned Clarity Innovations to incorporate the best practices from the first generation Web site and engineer a replacement focused on improved usability. The OETC Professional Learning Communities launches in the summer of 2010 after a three month beta test period this spring.
The Math Learning Center
Web Site Development
The Math Learning Center, developers of innovative curriculum for the K12 classroom, provides extensive information about their curriculum, workshops, and product offerings through their Web site. Though they were satisfied with the look and feel of their previous site, they struggled with its cumbersome content management system and overall inflexibility. These drawbacks were impeding their workflow and future plans for development of their online presence. They approached Clarity with the challenge of preserving the design of their site while implementing a CMS that was easier to use and a platform that could accommodate enhancements and new functionality.Read more...
ScholarCentric
Technology Infrastructure and Product Development
Having launched the innovative SuccessHighways curriculum, and the research to support its effectiveness, ScholarCentric sought out Clarity Innovations for its expertise in technology to help build and maintain the backend data collection, analysis and reporting systems of the SuccessHighways curriculum. Now in the second year of close collaboration, Clarity Innovations is working with ScholarCentric on a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education to study different models of online content delivery for the SuccessHighways curriculum.
Learning.com
Content Development
In 2007, the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (“NETS-S”) published by the International Society for Technology in Education (“ISTE”) were extensively revised. In 2008, Learning.com hired us to develop a significant collection of new content aligned to these new national standards, plus those of three states, for the next version of their TechLiteracy Assessment product.Read more...
South Lane School District
Web Site Development
South Lane sought us out because of our experience helping school districts multiply their effectiveness at using the Web to facilitate community engagement. In just a few months, we created a completely new, friendly, and easy to manage Web site just in time for the back-to-school season.Read more...
Bellingham Public Schools
Web Strategy
After two years of trying to identify a potential content management system (CMS), Bellingham Public Schools was having difficulty determining the best course of action. There was no consensus on the evaluation criteria to choose a CMS, nor did they have a strategy for how best to use the Web. A new superintendent directed that outside expertise be brought in to facilitate the CMS evaluation and develop momentum for a sound Web strategy.Read more...
