Imagine Learning

Summary

Imagine Learning sells digital-first K-12 curriculum and services — spanning core, supplemental, assessment, and courseware products including Imagine Language & Literacy for multilingual learners (official site). The company's corporate headquarters is now 100 S Mill Ave., Suite 1700, Tempe, AZ 85281 (contact page); its careers page lists additional offices in Austin, Petaluma, Rock Rapids, Glasgow, and Bangalore, and does not name Provo or any other Utah location (careers page).

The Utah lineage is historical. A 2014 Deseret News report describes Imagine Learning as a Provo-based language and literacy company acquired by Weld North Holdings, with officials saying it would remain in Provo (Deseret News, 2014). Current captured official pages place headquarters in Arizona instead; the wiki does not have a document establishing how many employees, if any, remain in Utah today.

Impact

The original product wedge — game-based language and literacy software aimed at English learners, struggling readers, and early elementary students — matched a real district need in high-ELL states like Utah. The 2014 article quotes a West Valley City principal describing conversational English gains after adopting the program (Deseret News, 2014).

Since then the company has grown through acquisition into a broader digital curriculum provider. Its homepage now markets a wide product portfolio and displays self-reported scale statistics — 18 million students, 38,000+ U.S. schools, 50% of U.S. districts — which the company states on its own site and which this wiki records as company-stated, not verified against a federal adoption registry (official site). The 2014 article's 6,500 schools figure is likewise attributed to company officials in news reporting and is dated.

Bet: that owning the English-learner literacy niche in Utah gave Imagine Learning a foothold it parlayed, through Weld North's roll-up strategy, into one of the larger U.S. digital curriculum portfolios — even after the corporate center of gravity left the state.

The honest counterweight: headquarters and named offices no longer anchor the company in Utah; whatever Utah footprint remains is undocumented in the captured sources. Impact on Utah schools may still be large through deployed software, but that is customer adoption, not corporate presence.

Utah Context

Imagine Learning is a Utah-founded edtech company whose identity has largely decoupled from the state administratively. Conventionally this is an out-of-state entity with an unknown Utah employment footprint until a primary record names a current Utah office or headcount. Utah school use is attested anecdotally in 2014 reporting (Stansbury Elementary, West Valley City) but no current Utah district adoption count has been pulled from a government record.

What They Need Now

The careers page describes a remote-friendly, hybrid workforce hiring across curriculum, engineering, sales, and instructional services nationally (careers page). Specific Utah-based openings were not captured.

Open Questions

• Current Utah headcount and offices. Neither the contact nor careers pages list Provo or another Utah city. A Utah DWS filing, a current job-posting cluster, or a state incentive record would establish what remains.
• Corporate history after 2014 is thin here. Weld North's subsequent acquisitions (StudySync, Edgenuity, and others commonly reported in trade press) are not documented on this page; a Weld North or Imagine Learning primary filing would tighten the chain.
• Adoption scale lacks independent records. Homepage statistics (18 million students, 50% of districts) and the 2014 "6,500 schools" figure are self-reported or company-attributed. NCES, state procurement, or USAspending pulls would be needed before treating any adoption number as fact.
• Wayback archives unresolved for these captures during ingestion; live URLs were retrieved successfully on 2026-08-11.

Evidence

• Source: Imagine Learning Official Website · https://www.imaginelearning.com/
• Source: Imagine Learning Contact Page · https://www.imaginelearning.com/about/contact-us/
• Source: Imagine Learning Careers Page · https://www.imaginelearning.com/about/careers/
• Source: Deseret News — Imagine Learning Sold, Will Remain in Provo (2014) · https://www.deseret.com/2014/4/22/20539939/education-technology-company-imagine-learning-sold-will-remain-in-provo/