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| Founded | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Luanne Zurlo |
| Focus | Education |
| Headquarters | New York, New York |
Area served | Latin America |
| Method | Donations, Grants and Partnerships |
Worldfund is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 that delivers training and ongoing support to teachers and principals from underserved schools in Latin America. It operates 3 different programs: LISTO, a principal leadership program, IAPE, an English-teacher training program and STEM Brasil, a science and math teacher training program. Nearly 8,000 principals and teachers have participated in Worldfund programming. [1]
Programs
IAPE
The Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE) trains, empowers, and supports a network of English language educators in Mexico's most underserved public schools, in association with Dartmouth College's Rassias Center. IAPE is in its tenth year of operation.
Impact by 2017
- Launch year: 2007
- Number of states: 32/32
- Number of educators: 2,198
- Number of students: 2,100,000
STEM Brasil
This program addresses the urgent increasing need for professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. The STEM Brasil methodology complements the school curriculum. The program engages students with their own teachers during the school day, unlike extracurricular programs.
Impact by 2017
- Launch year: 2009
- Number of states: 16/30
- Number of educators: 3,900
- Number of students: 500,000
Evaluation Results
- 85% of participating schools showed an increase of over 20% in Math scores
- 74% of school administrators noticed an increase in teacher motivation and 88% positive changes in teacher behavior
STEM Mexico
Worldfund is currently developing the infrastructure to implement its STEM program within Mexico's public schools. Anticipated launch date is 2018.
Areas of Operation
Mexico
- México
- Ciudad de México
- Veracruz
- Jalisco
- Puebla
- Guanajuato
- Chiapas
- Nuevo León
- Michoacán
- Oaxaca
- Chihuahua
- Guerrero
- Tamaulipas
- Baja California
- Sinaloa
- Coahuila de Zaragoza
- Hidalgo
- Sonora
- San Luis Potosí
- Tabasco
- Yucatán
- Querétaro de Arteaga
- Morelos
- Durango
- Zacatecas
- Quintana Roo
- Aguascalientes
- Tlaxcala
- Nayarit
- Campeche
- Baja California Sur
- Colima
Brazil
- Acre
- Amapá
- Espírito Santo
- Goiás
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Paraíba
- Pernambuco
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Norte
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Rondônia
- São Paulo
- Sergipe
- Tocantins
References
External links
- "Dartmouth-based partnership aims to help English teaching in Latin America" (6.21.2007 Article from The Dartmouth)
- "Spreading English Throughout The World" (7.6.2007 WCAX TV News Item)
- "Mexican teachers learn Rassias Method" (7.26.2007 Article from The Dartmouth)
- Worldfund's relationship with Better World Books