Ignite! Debuts its 21st Century Bridge for Textbooks at TCEA in Austin, TX

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week Ignite! Learning unveils a patent-pending digital content solution for their award winning multi-media curriculum called “the Torch,” aimed at providing administrators and teachers an affordable, easy-to-use tool to drive state-standards success. The Torch will be showcased at the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Convention on February 10^th through February 12^th.

“all the while making them more effective.”

“The game-changing element of the Torch is its configurability to state and grade-level priorities across Math, Science, & Social Studies for all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. Districts and whole states can purchase an affordable teacher-centric instructional solution credibly targeting special education inclusion, content and skills mastery, or high-stakes assessment preparation based on their own set priorities,” explains Spike Blevins, Executive Vice President of Sales.

Spike further explains “Our state customized, standards-driven interface combined with academically scripted digital content ensures that the coverage and comprehension guidelines for all grade-level standards are met, giving administrator’s confidence that classroom instruction is both motivational and on-target. This is the only 21^st century compliment to the textbook you’ll see capable of harnessing the full power of interactive whiteboard and student response systems with engaging standards-based multi-media lessons that are compatible with the basal programs. We’re offering the Torch to teachers for classroom instruction but will follow soon with customized low-cost solutions for students take-home use as schools increasingly move to classroom-only textbook sets.”

The Torch, a patented portable device by Ignite! Learning, delivers premium digital content and assessments for today’s 21^st century classroom configured entirely by grade-level, subject and state. The device, as small as a Wii™ controller, allows administrators to select customized curriculum for purchase and immediate use. Ignite!’s “plug and play” platform is fully functional on both Mac and PC, requires no installation, and is ideal for interactive whiteboard equipped schools, also working with a simple projector/computer setup in any classroom. Teachers build and save state-standards based lessons; while administrators, through usage-tracking features, can assess how investments in digital content are being leveraged for academic progress. Assessment components embedded directly into the media result in teachers querying standards-based rubrics, creating lessons fully integrated with topic quizzes, print materials, enrichment activities, and together with student response system technology, ensure real-time student participation. Ignite!’s Torch carries a “motivation or your money back” guarantee.

Ignite! Learning has participated in many district success stories around the county, with one recent example coming out of Clint ISD in El Paso, Texas. In 2006, Barbie Flores, District Instructional Facilitator for Clint ISD, knew she needed to take serious action to help improve students’ test scores after learning their overall passing rate for science was a dismal 39% and just 1% for LEP students. She decided to develop a hands-on lab largely supported by the Ignite! Science curriculum, and after one year Mrs. Flores saw participating students achieve a 59% overall passing rate, 20% for LEP students! After such overwhelmingly positive results, Mrs. Flores decided to partner with Ignite! again to develop a similar lab program for math in 2009. “It is exciting to see a product come around that not only engages students, but supports teachers and makes their job easier,” says Mrs. Flores, “all the while making them more effective.”

Visitors to the TCEA conference can stop by booth number 535 to see the Torch in action, meet the Ignite! team, and learn more about how your district can achieve state-standards success.

About Ignite Learning

Ignite! Learning has partnered with districts across the country to help drive state-standards success through the use of engaging, academically scripted digital content designed by a team of experts in media, instructional design and middle grades teaching and learning. The Ignite! curriculum is currently being used in more than 10,000 science, social studies, and math classrooms, making it one of the nation’s fastest growing digital content solutions adopted by districts today. The company’s curriculum is rooted in current research on best teaching and learning practices for middle and upper elementary schools with application in general, targeted and special education situations.