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ConTextos
ConTextos has developed education-altering programs in El Salvador. Starting with outdated curriculum, teachers rarely had read aloud skills or time for reading in their classrooms. ConTextos provides teacher training for the hands-on use and read aloud strategies for literacy development. The schools then are provided with libraries that students, teachers, and families can access within…
Read MoreConTextos: Building libraries. Connecting teachers. Helping communities.
To read powerfully requires comprehension within a context. But first, it requires a book. Foundation Beyond Belief’s current Education beneficiary, ConTextos, provides training to teachers and libraries in schools with young readers. ConTextos has built more than 70 libraries in schools across El Salvador. Alongside that material donation, the teachers at each school take part…
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ConTextos’ goal is to train teachers to incorporate literature, picture books, and read-aloud techniques, regularly used in classrooms in the United States, in the education system in El Salvador. The standard curriculum in El Salvador is rote memorization, and most teachers have never incorporated outside resources to supplement. As training began, ConTextos representatives discovered that…
Read MoreTop Ten Ways to Spend the Summer Solstice
Slather on the sunscreen and clear your calendar: let’s celebrate the Summer Solstice and World Humanist Day! If you’re not sure how to spend the longest day of the year, look no further than ten of the many charities FBB has featured as Humanist Grants beneficiaries over the years. And for our friends in the…
Read MoreFBB fosters collaborative relationships with beneficiaries
As a volunteer for Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB), it’s often my privilege to sing the praises of our amazing Humanist Grants beneficiaries. Our beneficiaries are, indeed, fabulous, and they do great work. We like to keep you, our supporters and donors, informed about what our partners are working on, so you can see how your…
Read MoreStarfish Impact School hits the mid-year mark and makes great strides
The Starfish Impact School (SI) is officially at the mid-year mark, and we’ve learned and achieved so much in just six months. Our school opened in January 2017 with a cohort of 48 young women entering the 7th grade. Each year, SI will expand by one grade level, until it is a fully operational 7th…
Read MoreWhat’s the role of literacy in “the homicide capital of the world”?
Last Friday, a gun fight broke out in front of Aldea de Las Mercedes School in San Salvador, El Salvador. ConTextos’ Teacher Trainers Enrique and Jennifer were working at the school when shots sent students and teachers scrambling. El Salvador suffers the highest homicide rate of any “peacetime” nation in the world. Rampant gang violence…
Read MoreSneak peek into our Q4 beneficiaries
We are thrilled to give you a sneak peek into our fourth quarter Humanist giving beneficiaries. Remember, these beneficiaries will show up on the Now Supporting page of our website on October 1 and you can change the amount you give to each beneficiary by going to your My FBB page in the top right-hand…
Read MoreStarfish advances teacher knowledge through intense training
Starish is an innovative Guatemalan education program geared to mentoring and education of middle year native girls. Our 2015 Compassionate Impact Grant provided funds to prepare teachers to instruct Starfish students in their new high performing school, The Starfish Impact School. Since this is a new endeavor not only in Guatemala but much of Central…
Read MoreCollaboration between beneficiaries leverages impact
While the grant awards Foundation Beyond Belief makes to our beneficiaries are the primary purpose in our Humanist Giving program; behind the scenes networking is also a goal between FBB and our beneficiaries, and in some cases, the collaboration leverages an additional impact along with our donation, continuing on like a ripple in a pond.…
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