Help 455 At-Risk Children in Mexico Stay in School

Teacher training to improve children's education with Educa’s Virtual Community 2.0 (Comunidad Virtual EDUCA 2.0)

Objective: Foster a RED EDUCA permanent collaboration model between school principals and teachers by means of a virtual platform to facilitate on line socializing and better practices, training and solving challenges exchanges for collaborative innovative educational projects design, implementation, assessment, and transfer

For the 2016-2017 school year, we have 1200 teachers and school principals, at 53 institutions located in 13 states of the country.

2016-2017 SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAM PROGRESS

1. Training of EDUCA’s staff that is responsible for the platform.
2. Meetings to revise platform’s functionality and technical characteristics.
3. Updating of database containing EDUCA’s teachers and principals.
4. Registration of new teachers and deletion of teachers no longer with us, for every institution.
5. Start the visits to EDUCA´s schools that are not yet included in this EDUCA Virtual Community 2.0 platform.
6. Configuration of Complementary Groups with activities that are interesting o all schools, particularly focusing on institutions that are not implementing educational programs.
7. Tutorial videos with Mexican sign language, prepared in collaboration with Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, to facilitate access and entry to EDUCA’s teachers, considering participation of teachers with special needs.
8. Delivery of 58 laptops and 41 iPads donated by SAP Mexico, as an incentive for those teachers that had the largest number of contributions during the 2015-2016 school year. Part of the commitment by teachers who received such equipment, is to continue their interaction with Comunidad Virtual EDUCA 2.0

Links:

• http://educa.org.mx/

We want to share you the closure of one of the programs implemented in EDUCA schools. This is “Aflatoun, Social and Financial Education for Children”. Which aims to inspire children and teenagers to empowered social and economically to be agents of change in their lives and for a more equitable world. The learning methodology is child-centered participatory, learning - making, games and activities.

 Our activities this school year were:

1. Annual Training for teachers: in order to review the key elements of the program as well as new strategies and techniques work in the classroom. In this activity participated 33 teachers who teach underprivileged children.

2. Visit the Interactive Museum of Economics: where issues such as decision making distinction of needs and wants, reasoned consumption and resource management worked. This activity benefited 107 poor children and 9 teachers.

3. Visits to banks: Children learned about the activities and operations of banks and the children's services they offer. This activity benefited 86 children and 7 teachers.

4. Week of Culture and care for the environment: the children performed educational activities about recycling, visited an urban vegetable garden, participated in a workshop dealing transplantation seeds and learned about the life cycle of bees and their impact at life on our planet. We benefit to 1206 children and 46 teachers.

5. Olympics Aflatoun: On April 19 we hosted the first Olympics of the Educa-Aflatoun Network to create a space for conviviality, fun and healthy competition, in which teamwork and effort by the children resulted a great experience. 500 children participated, 400 parents and 30 teachers family.

6. Financial inclusion workshops: These workshops work issues as: the importance of saving natural and financial resources. We transmit to children with stories that reflect on the meaning of Recycling, Reuse and Recycle in everyday life, and family and individual financial planning. 1180 children participated.

The Aflatoun program has already been implemented in EDUCA for more than six years, thanks to you and your donations we can provide continuity and help more children.

The current situation in Mexico and the world, it is important that children can be empowered socially and economically to be agents of change in their lives and for a more equitable 

With your help we achieve to install a School Playground, to develop skills for life and to reinforce academic learning though play activities in space designed for the EDUCA Network schools.

This Playground benefits 279 needy children and 7 teachers.

This area has a library with interactibos books and teaching materials that bring children to science.

We hope that we can open more areas like this during this year. Interaction with areas like this, it is essential for the development of children EDUCA Foundation benefit. This will give them the possibility of a better future.

Thank you very much for your support !!!

None of this would be possible without your donation.

The 2013-2014 school year is over.
We are very proud to share with you the achievements that we had during this school year.

We benefit to:

• 10 states in mexico 
• 73 schools 
• 14,176 children 
• 1,312 teachers 
• 17,266 parents

We implement educational programs as:

• Aflatoun, social and financial education 
• School gardens, with the objective of establishing productive projects in schools and at the same time improve the nutrition of children we benefit 
• Technology programs that increase the mathematical knowledge of children. 
• Among other

We are ready for the 2014-2015 school year and are sure that with your support, we will have more impact on education.

Thanks for the support you gave us. Welcome to this new school year

The following is a postcard from Lucius and Sarah, GlobalGiving's In-the-Field Representatives in Mexico, about Fundación EDUCA Mexico's amazing ethics program for pre-schoolers. 

At 7:30AM in Ixtapaluca, a poor municipality just thirty minutes outside Mexico City by car, the groan of an empty stomach brings young children to the local pre-school. These children love coming to school because it is a safe haven and a welcome respite from the violence and poverty that plagues their society. 

Fundación EDUCA Mexico A.C runs a pilot program called “Universal Education for the Development of Ethics” in which young pre-schoolers begin their mornings with a session of tai chi. It was a rare sight to see pre-schoolers practice tai chi, and equally mesmerizing to watch them move so gracefully. Tai chi teaches these children calmness and empathy, and reduces their preponderance to violence. 

Next, a teacher leads them into a dark classroom to meditate and reflect. Meditation imbues these children with self-restraint, something rarely seen in a violent society. Finally, they engage in a discussion where one classmate presents a real-life scenario from home and other classmates debate the morality of certain actions. This problem-solving approach helps them to understand the logic behind their actions and thought process, calmly assessing the situation from an outsider's perspective. It was incredible to witness the positive effects that the program had on these kids' lives. 

A new generation of Mexicans are emerging that need creative and sustainable education programs such as these to inculcate deep-seated values early on in life. Fundación EDUCA plays a vital role in keeping these programs up and running. Without support from the Mexican government, your donations are more vital than ever.

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