Age of Learning Is Honored by the City of Glendale for Our School Continuity Initiative

I have a long entrepreneurial history in the City of Glendale, having started three companies there: first the Dohring Company, then Neopets, then Age of Learning.

Since I founded Age of Learning 14 years ago, we’ve been proud to call the City of Glendale our home. This week, all of us at Age of Learning were thrilled to receive Glendale Tech Week’s Best Breakthrough Award, which is given to a tech company that successfully pivoted during the pandemic by developing solutions and seeking opportunity in the face of adversity.

We were honored for our School Continuity Initiative, a program we created in March 2020 when schools were forced to close, impacting the academic lives and growth of millions of children. True to our mission to help children everywhere build a strong foundation for academic success and a lifelong love of learning, we created this program to offer preschool through middle school students free home access to our leading digital education programs—ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ.

More than 80,000 schools, school districts, and teachers contacted us within days of announcing the School Continuity Initiative–and I’m proud to say that we were able to reach more than 1.2 million children with this initiative. The children who participated in the program not only continued learning while sheltered at home, but they also experienced academic gains.

You can read more about this on the Age of Learning blog…

Age of Learning Brings Comprehensive Disney Publishing Worldwide Library to ReadingIQ, ABCmouse, and Adventure Academy

Reading is such an important part of our educational mission. That’s why all of us at Age of Learning were so thrilled yesterday to announce the addition of many of the best-loved children’s titles from Disney Publishing Worldwide to the thousands of expert-curated books already in our ReadingIQ^® digital library and literacy platform, as well as to ABCmouse.com^® Early Learning Academy and Adventure Academy™.

The comprehensive Disney collection comprises titles from its most popular franchises, including

• Disney: Frozen, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Moana, Mulan, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh, The Jungle Book, Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia, Doc McStuffins, Lilo & Stitch, Sofia the First, Robin Hood, The Princess and the Frog, Kim Possible, and many more
• Pixar: Toy Story; Cars; The Incredibles; Coco; Finding Nemo; Monsters, Inc.; Brave; Ratatouille; A Bug’s Life; Wall-E; and more
• Marvel: Black Panther, Spider-Man, Avengers, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hulk, Captain America, and more
• Star Wars: Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Rogue One

Learn more about this exciting partnership with Disney on the Age of Learning blog…

 

Age of Learning Launches ReadingIQ, an Expert-Curated Digital Library

I’m thrilled to share that last week Age of Learning launched ReadingIQ, an advanced digital library for children 12 and under, which gives families and teachers access to thousands of high-quality books, curated by experts to advance literacy.

ReadingIQ provides the best of children’s literature, including Caldecott and Newbery award winners, National Geographic and National Geographic Kids books, more than 1,000 exclusive titles, and thousands of additional high-quality fiction and nonfiction books from leading publishers. Plus, the entire ReadingIQ library is easily searchable by topic and leveled with both the Guided Reading and Lexile® systems so that children can find titles that match their interests and reading ability.

As with ABCmouse Early Learning Academy, we’ve made ReadingIQ available at no cost to teachers for use in their classrooms, with the ability to assign an entire reading level of books to each student to read at home, completely free. Families who want full home access to all of the ReadingIQ library can subscribe for less than $5 a month or $30 a year. ReadingIQ is available at www.ReadingIQ.com, or can be downloaded to smartphones and tablets through the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Learn more about ReadingIQ on the Age of Learning blog or go to www.ReadingIQ.com.