What are our teacher trainers up to?
In this year alone, our Teacher Trainers have run 38 workshops with over 1000 teachers from over 100 schools in attendance! That means that our team has touched the lives of 37,000+ students so far in 2025. Big props to our stellar team—Naidra, Kevin, and Lisa—who put in the long hours to make such a big impact. And that’s not all they’re up to…
The “Read Naturally” program focuses on boosting reading fluency for struggling grade 9 students while simultaneously building the capacity of teachers to deliver structured reading interventions. In addition to providing targeted resources for teachers, our Teacher Trainers provide ongoing monitoring and coaching visits to ensure that students are getting the resources they need to continue reading. A generous grant from South Bay Community Church made this training possible (see one of South Bay’s own, Nita, pictured above, working with one of the students in the program). To date, our Teacher Training team has worked with eight teachers across six participating schools in Belize City, Belmopan, Orange Walk, and Corozal, impacting the lives of 153 students.
In mid-May, we were honored to have four students and two professors from MSU visit two of our PathLight centers to provide Micro:bit and Lego Robotics training for local students. This trip was a collaborative effort with UNICEF’s USpace and four local high schools. With sessions held in both Orange Walk and Belize City, it was awesome to see our students connect with other tech whizzes and take steps forward in coding, collaboration, and critical thinking!
Finally, thanks to PathLight’s strong success record—and the fact that our staff have trained teachers in every district in Belize!—UNICEF has awarded us a grant to digitize their Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) mental health curriculum on behalf of the Ministry of Education. Our Teacher Trainers will also offer an in-person training session as a pilot for the curriculum, eventually publishing it to the Ministry’s website for broad use across Belize in elementary and high school classrooms. We are grateful to partner with such impressive, well-established, and generous organizations like UNICEF. Stay tuned for more updates on the HAT collaborative this summer…