Innovations for Learning, Inc. (IFL) is an Illinois nonprofit formed in 1993 to develop innovative technology to improve early elementary education. IFL has created a complete supplemental beginning reading and math instructional program for K-2 classrooms, which has been demonstrated to be effective by independent university research.

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 is now in use in nearly 300 schools around the country.  JPMorgan Chase Foundation has selected IFL as one of its nationwide education grantees and is helping IFL launch pilots in major Chase markets.  In September 2009 IFL and Teach for America will commence a partnership to use TeacherMates with new teachers in the Phoenix area. 

IFL has entered into a collaboration with Stanford University’s School of Education to bring TeacherMates to indigent rural communities around the globe.  Pilot programs, together with the creation of local content, have commenced in Mexico, Korea and the Philippines. Additional pilot programs are now being planned throughout Africa. 

In conjunction with the TeacherMate System, IFL operates early elementary tutoring programs in Illinois and California that connect tutors to students over the Internet.