Ignite's High School Transitions initiative has two primary areas of focus: improving academic performance and building a community that supports and challenges. By utilizing your schools biggest asset - your own students – and working from the ground up to unify faculty and students with a common goal, Ignite is able to inspire positive change.

For the past decade, Ignite has been teaming up with schools across the country to provide meaningful Spring Transitions (mentor visits to feeder schools) and student-driven orientations for incoming students. On day one, each incoming student is matched with an upperclassmen mentor who helps guide them through character building activities and school familiarization. These students continue to support and teach their mentees throughout the year through monthly lessons. This mentor/mentee relationship is an essential part of our system: empowering peers to help each other.

We also work alongside staff to address your goals and provide you with tools to facilitate and communicate Character based solutions. Our consultants work with your site-based staff and students to ensure sustainable and cohesive results. Our strength is incorporating what your building does well with opportunities to empower students to be part of the solution.

IGNITE CAN:

• Work with your building staff and students to determine goals based on your current data
• Train mentors in communication skills, facilitation techiques and character building activities
• Train mentors to host a student led Orientation using success strategy breakout sessions
• Train High School and Middle School mentors to visit feeder schools to begin connections in our Spring Transitions component
• Provide monthly mentor trainings on lessons that focus on the successful transition of incoming students
• Collect data of program implementation with the site-based team
• Support teaching and learning strategles like those used by AVID schools
• Provide Staff Development on Smart and Good Schools Research practices
• Provide Staff Development in focus areas like Math or Reading, by implementing Ignite Learning practices
• Create relevant grade level Advisory Curriculum with your team
• Help implement a nationally recognized community service project through SPARROW CLUBS - helping your students become heroes for someone in need
• Help introduce R.A.K.E. (Random Acts of Kindness Etc.) into school culture to empower kindness, compassion and the ‘pay it forward’ mentality