About Jason
Honors/Awards:
- Teaching American History Grant (3 year grant) 2008-2011
- Reading Excellence Act Grant Participant
- School House Award Winner
- Apple from the Teachers Award Winner
- Kentucky Teacher of the Year Nominee (2)
- Kentucky History Teacher of the Year Nominee 2015
- Kentucky History Teacher Conference Presenter
- 2013 Excel Award Nominee
- National Board Certified (Early and Middle Childhood Literacy)
- NBCT Facilitator
- GE Grant Math Adoption Committee
- JCTA Research and Dissemination Group
- Gilder Lehrman Institute Leader
- First Lady Jane Beshear's Capitol Education Center Advisory Focus Group
- JCTA Spotlight Award
- International Society for Technology in Education Member
- ISTE - Kentucky Society for Technology in Education Member
Own Education History:
- Indiana University Southeast – Bachelors - August 1991 – December 1997
- Bellarmine University – Masters – Spring 1998 – August 1999
- Morehead University – Rank 1 in Instructional Computer Technology P-12 – August 2010 – June 20- 11
Additional Bio Info:
Featured In Or Contributed To Articles In The Following Publications and Websites:
- nprEd: Postcards From The Common Core Classroom
- School Library Journal: MinecraftEdu Takes Hold in Schools
- Kentucky Teacher Magazine: Building Learning in Minecraft
- Monday Memo (Various)
- NPR Radio: In Louisville, Ky., Minecraft Teaches Math
- Bright Education: Building the Way to a More Exciting Education
- My Journal Courier: Locals Know Best How to Spend Education Dollars
- JCPS Monday Memo: Schools that Work (twice)
- NEA Today: Video Games are Bad for Kids? Who Says?
- NEA GO! Magazine: Setting up the Perfect Classroom
- NEA Today Magazine: Singapore on the Ohio
- NEA.org: What Are You Reading?
- NEA Today: Teacher Pay Still Losing Ground
- JCPS Parent Connection: Anatomy of Success: Behind the gains of the districts CATS scores
- NEA GO! Magazine: Beg, Borrow, and (Steal)
- NEA.org: Finding it for Free
- NEA Today Magazine: Your Principal, Your Ally