A dog is dancing in the office!?

We had a visitor in the office today. This guest was not your typical individual who usually come to our office to discuss the future of education technology. In fact, he only came to dance… Check out the funny video on our Facebook Page It was a delight to have ...

A math lesson plan example from Ignite!

There are thousands of teachers using Ignite! right now to excite their classrooms.  Regardless of subject, grade, and location, we are dedicated to provide interactive materials, instructional support and integrated assessment designed to their current common, state, local, subject, and grade-level priorities while simultaneously integrating existing technology, supporting classroom instruction, building teacher capacity ...

Big News: Ignite! is now part of the Sunburst family!

We have some exciting news to share – Ignite! Learning is now part of the Sunburst family of solutions! Much more news to come soon. Press release below and also attached CHICAGO, IL – September 28, 2011: Sunburst & Educational Resources were acquired on September 15th by Sunburst Digital, Inc. ...

Delivering digital solutions in the classroom

Although this beautifully designed info-graphic dives more into an overall digital exclusion of Americans, we think it is well worth you while to check out.  The graphic is part of Microsoft’s effort of breaking the digital divide.  The imagery obviously shows the incentives of a student having access to technology at home, but we ...

Everybody is singing at school because of technology?!

“Our teachers were “fighting” over it.  We named her Bessy and she had a tendency to wander out of her pasture.  We were always looking for her in other teacher’s classrooms.” Candice Walsh is an instructional technology specialist for Longleaf Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina.  Having a master in ...

Updating our digital content system to also accommodate K-3rd

Coming This Fall! We are very excited to announce that Ignite! will be releasing a K-3rd Edition of our digital content system (also containing full Spanish ELL capabilities), effectively bringing our total solution to the entire K-8th spectrum. We will be working with the CSCOPE curriculum team to ensure the new grade ...

Calculating ELL Success

This post is in repsonse to an admired Education Weekly article written by David N. Plank.  Mr. Plank is the executive director of Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE, an independent, nonpartisan research center based at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Southern California; and Stanford University.  He also is ...

Remember your favorite teacher? What did they do right?

If you go around our Ignite! office and ask members of the team who their favorite teacher was, you would be surprised by the quick responses you get. Instant responses were comments like, “Mrs. Johnson, my 3rd grade teacher, because she genuinely cared about my growth and success in the classroom.” , ...

August Spark of the Month – Brett Bowlin

I am excited to announce our Spark of the Month award for August 2011 – Mr. Brett Bowlin! Brett consistently went above and beyond the call of duty to complete his own tasks (managing our website, updating user interface, graphic design, etc.) while also helping to project manage our new ELL Edition (which is now ...