Our Initiative: Open Books, Open Minds

Literacy offers a key to genuine transformation for individuals, communities and countries. It has been proven that children who read and write can create improved lives for themselves and their families. GLXi is committed to supporting the national literacy efforts in Guatemala with a high-quality proprietary curriculum in reading and writing instruction for children. We achieve this through comprehensive teacher training and professional development. The investment in the training and support of teachers has the power to change generations to come.

The result is a “literacy kit” for each school.
The kit includes the following:

  • For each classroom, a laptop computer loaded with over 450 digital Spanish-language books for guided reading, a projector, a laser pointer, and a collection of approximately 80-90 age-appropriate physical books for children for independent reading.

  • For each student: pencils, sharpeners, erasers, wooden crayons, scissors, individual whiteboards, erasable markers and refills, blank composition books and notebooks.

  • For each teacher, a teacher’s guide for the program, markers with inks for refilling markers, packs of blank sheets, a pack of flashcards (for vocabulary), personal journal book, board erasers, a special liquid to clean the boards, glue, construction paper, popsicle sticks, and a plastic container to store supplies.

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“Several of the tools GLXi provided us helped the first-year students successfully learn to read and write even though the lessons were delivered virtually… I grew professionally and I (believe) GLXI is a great teaching program that enables the teacher to be in constant training.”  

- María de Jesús Gálvez, Mixco, Guatemala