Join the movement for fairer education in Mexico

The present school year is almost over - a year that has been challenging for the world, for Mexico and for education. The pandemic showed the structural problem that exists in Mexican education and with it, the enormous gap that does not allow all children and youth to reach their full potential.

Despite the difficulties encountered, Enseña por México, hand in hand with the educational communities, had the opportunity to reinvent learning and equip students with the cognitive, creative, social, and emotional skills necessary to navigate in the present and the future. We contextualized the one-going support, strategies and activities that are carried out through the more than 260 Profesionales de Enseña por México (PEM) to face the different realities that exist in the 10 states in which we collaborate in more than 120 centers and schools. For this we have carried out periodic censuses to determine the access to connectivity of each of the students, as well as their socio-emotional affectation, to adapt, adjust and expand the impact.

Our more than 470 Alumni have demonstrated their resilience and capacity by continuing to impact the education sector despite the crisis we are in, finding ways to innovate in the social sector, promoting and developing educational public policy and leading educational initiatives inside and outside the classroom. You can check the information on our Alumni report through this Facebook Live. 

Enseña por México is now preparing for the 2021-2023 generation of PEM that will start their intensive initial training in July and begin their collaboration in centers and schools in hybrid modalities in August. 

Read the stories that build the movement that will transform education in Mexico.

At Enseña por México we firmly believe that scientific knowledge and education are essential resources to face the greatest health crisis that the planet has suffered in the last century. In addition, we are convinced that any comprehensive plan to address the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico (and the world) is not really comprehensive, if education is not considered.

The challenge is enormous and continuous but we are working and striving every day to ensure that one day all children an youth of Mexico have an education that allows them to reach their full potential. At Enseña por México, during this crisis and through our PEM network, we continue to serve more than 30,000 students from vulnerable schools and ECD centers who have the greatest needs, developing skills that allows them to form their own critical thinking and acquire socio-emotional skills necessary to understand and propose solutions to the problems in their environment. Likewise, training, monitoring and accompaniment of educational agents, parents and teachers is offered, with the objective of sharing good leadership practices in the classroom.

Today, more than ever, we must create awareness about the importance that scientific knowledge and education have in current contexts, where what prevails is absolute uncertainty. Faced with contemporary challenges, as a society we must focus our hopes on something that allows us to reverse the mistakes that have brought us to this point; that something is human reason. Any conscientious reflection on the ravages of this pandemic should lead us to ask ourselves: what have we stopped doing in education that has us in conflict with ourselves and with nature?

In the world, the health crisis has allowed us to be aware of the crucial contribution of teaching, learning and mental health of students, in order not to neglect the objectives of guaranteeing inclusion and educational quality for all. Focusing our efforts beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, we must embrace the idea that learning never stops. And for this, it is necessary to consider an investment that allows enhancing leadership skills among teachers for the best equipment of strategies that can face these and future situations; and thus, prevent the health and economic crisis that the world is going through from turning into a catastrophic educational crisis and its consequences.

The investment we make today in education will be reflected in the integrity of those generations that follow. 

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