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Innovations for Learning, Inc. is an Illinois nonprofit formed in 1993 to develop innovative methods and materials to improve early elementary education in inner city public schools. IFL has created a complete supplemental beginning reading and math instructional program for K-2 classrooms. The effectiveness of IFL’s programs has been demonstrated by independent university research.
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In 2008 IFL launched the TeacherMate handheld computer system, the world’s first affordable means to provide computer assisted instruction for all students in the classroom. The TeacherMate System was piloted in 20 Chicago Public Schools in the Spring of 2008. For the 2008-9 school year, nearly half of the 500 Chicago Public Schools will be using the TeacherMate system in at least one first grade classroom.
In 2007, JPMorgan Chase Foundation selected IFL as its first nationwide education initiative under its new philanthropic goal of focusing on a smaller number of impactful nonprofit organizations. IFL and Chase are now in their second year of an anticipated multi-year rollout of the TeacherMate System to the major urban areas that Chase serves. In cooperation with Chase, IFL has launched pilot sites in New York City, New Orleans, Detroit, San Antonio, Phoenix, Denver, and Phoenix, Dallas and suburban Denver.
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In July 2008, IFL entered into a collaboration with Stanford University’s School of Education to bring TeacherMates to indigent communities around the globe. As the first project under the collaboration, Dr. Paul Kim, the Chief Technology Officer of Standford’s School of Education, is spearheading a pilot of the TeacherMate System in Baja Mexico.
In addition to providing educational software and the TeacherMate System, IFL also operates early elementary tutoring programs in Illinois and California that connect tutors to students over the Internet. |
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