Open Jar Consulting, LLC

Open Jar Consulting's mission is to use rigorous research to support K12 organizations and EdTech companies in understanding their products’ impact, alignment to influential frameworks, and potential for integrating social and emotional learning to support 21st-century skill development. Open Jar Consulting’s name comes from a remarkable ability exhibited by the octopus: opening a jar from the inside. Just like the octopus engineers an escape with only what’s in the jar, we believe that innovating K12 education products should start with what you already have. We can use outside knowledge to codify how and why your product impacts teaching and learning, and then use research to scientifically validate. Understanding your product’s impact isn’t the only asset available to leverage. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is implicit in everything we do. A large part of implementing SEL in schools is elevating the opportunities to practice SEL skills during academic instruction. Instead of ‘sprinkling SEL on top,’ we will purposefully integrate SEL throughout your materials. This will make it an ideal complement to SEL initiatives in schools or districts.