Reducing the gap in 130 Mexican public schools

As this school year comes to an end, we have to make a special shout-out to our teachers and school principals. The pandemic is still a concern throughout education spaces in Mexico, children under the age of 12 haven't had the opportunity to get vaccinated and the chances of getting COVID are still worrying parents and teachers a like.

Teachers' role in education has become even more important than ever before, they are not only being educators to children but also are fighting the great education gap created in the last two years. Lazos joins their fight giving them our yearly Teacher Training program, this year focused on the recovery of learning indicators.

For the first time, our Teacher Training Program was structured in two stages. The first one was focused on Workshops specialized in Spanish and Math subjects with three sessions where teachers worked in educational units to learn and teach focal competitive approaches in education.

The second part of our Teacher Training Program was two conference sessions with experts of the Mexican Board of Neuroscience on subjects such as Neuroscience in education through Neurodidactics and the function of specific brain areas, which enable teachers to incorporate new strategies in their teaching techniques inside the classroom and recover the learning loss caused by the pandemic.

We want to close this report once again by thanking all the teachers, not only the ones that work with Lazos but all around the world for becoming a beacon of hard work and commitment, for making sure their students get the education they deserve, and helping the world become a better place with their example.

We also once again thank YOU for helping us continue our work and invite you to spread this project.

Until next time.

The school period 2021-2022 has been one of the changes for Lazos. As the pandemic continued and the visible future didn't favor education in Mexican schools, we decided it was time to take care of our beneficiaries, not only in our programs of human values and educational quality but also in their socioemotional and health care.

At the beginning of the 2021-2022 school period in august, we started working with four lines of action that will enable us to help the school communities with all the changes caused by the pandemic inside and outside the classroom. Our intervention model became enriched and oriented by these four lines of action that will help us to attend the priority educational necessities in our school communities.

1. Educational and socioemotional diagnosis: Using evaluations that will give us a better understanding of the impact and the necessities in both of these aspects.

2. Focus on human rights, inclusion, and human development: The content of all of our programs started to incorporate and focus on these subjects.

3. Socioemotional education and health care: Our programs shifted to the perspective of the wellbeing and the importance of health care.

4. Learning recovery: As we've mentioned before Mexican education is far from where it should be. The pandemic made the educational lagging far worse.

With these four lines of action, we hope to continue impacting school communities around Mexico.

We thank you for your support and please share our work and help us transform Mexico through education.