CDMX elementary school wins World’s Best School award

The Escuela A Favor del Niño (AFN) successful Mexico City was recognized with the planetary World’s Best School Prize successful the Community Collaboration category, becoming the archetypal Mexican instauration to person this award.

AFN is simply a foundation schoolhouse that offers preschool and superior education. It earned the grant for its comprehensive, community-driven exemplary focused connected supporting marginalized students.

Director Daniela Jiménez Moyao credited the triumph to the hard enactment of the school’s teachers, families and students. (World’s Best School via Eje Central)

School Director Daniela Jiménez Moyao said the designation represented a “historic moment” for her assemblage and for acquisition successful Mexico. She said it is “a testament to the corporate efforts of families, teachers, allies and children who animate america each time to proceed transforming lives.”

The model, which is 1 of a benignant successful Mexico, seeks to defuse structural problems — similar poverty, malnutrition, fragile wellness and anemic household ties — with shared attraction networks. It combines ceremonial acquisition with socio-emotional care, carnal wellness and nutrition.

The work Infobae reports that 100% of caller graduates person been accepted into high-performing secondary schools, their grades stay precocious and household engagement exceeds 80%. After graduating from AFN’s superior school, students proceed to person continuing enactment from the programme arsenic they proceed connected to precocious school.

AFN is located successful San Jerónimo Lídice, a vicinity successful the borough of La Magdalena Contreras successful Mexico City. It serves much than 335 students with an extended 10-hour schoolhouse time and ongoing teacher training.

The Escola Estadual Parque Dos Sonhos, successful São Paulo, Brasil, was the lone different schoolhouse successful Latin America to recieve an award. It was recognized successful the “Overcoming Adversity” class for becoming a “sanctuary” for students exposed to poverty, unit and pollution.

The different winning schools see the Franklin School (Jersey City, United States) for innovation, Arbor School (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) for biology action, and SK Putrajaya Presint 11 (Malaysia) for supporting steadfast living.

The award-winning schools volition be the World Schools Summit successful Abu Dhabi, U.A.E connected Nov. 15 and 16 to stock their champion practices with planetary acquisition leaders.

World’s Best School Prizes is simply a prestigious planetary acquisition grant established by T4 Education successful 2022 to admit champion practices and innovations successful acquisition astir the world.

With reports from El Financiero and Infobae