Our Executive Director - Guatemala, Jaime Vielman, recently celebrated five years with our organization. In his time at GLXi, Jaime has helped spur exciting changes in how we train our teachers and he successfully guided our organization through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are grateful for his leadership!

GLXi took a big step toward accreditation with a visit from the Ministry of Education of Guatemala in July.

GLXI classrooms had great fun celebrating International Book Day on April 23

Did you know that an estimated one out of every seven kids worldwide struggle with dyslexia? GLXiⓇ teachers know this, because they have experienced its prevalence firsthand. They thus exhibited a palpable excitement as they participated in our recent teacher workshop – teaching to dyslexia.

GLXi’s first-ever teacher assessments showed significant achievements and also will help shape the Open Books, Open Minds program going forward.

GLXi held its teacher graduation on Jan. 20, and it was a virtual celebration to remember.

The 57 teachers who participated in the Open Books, Open Minds training program this past year completed their book projects, which will add to GLXi's growing digital library for Guatemalan kids.

This past year, for the first time since the pandemic, students returned to classrooms full time and we were able to administer student assessments at both the beginning and end of the year. This gave us a comprehensive read of student progress – and also an understanding of how GLXi’s curriculum is helping classrooms recover from the multi-faceted blows of the pandemic. The results are even better than we could have predicted!

The school year has ended for GLXi’s participating classrooms. Enjoy some photos from their final days and year-end events!

GLXi teacher Alejandra Duarte taught both mom and daughter to read - turning a challenge into an opportunity!