PROYECTO ITZAES 

Kaambal   u tia’al  Ka’ansaj

Learning in order to teach

           An International Education Project   

Even though Chicxulub is a town of just a few thousand people, there are currently 70 primary and secondary age students ( with a waiting list of approximately 25 children) involved in after school Proyecto Itzaes classes at any given time. The classes are taught by the graduates of the program in earlier years. These student teachers are older teenagers and university students who donate their time to the community to continue the program  and to pass on what they have learned. It is their successful implementation of team teaching  and community involvement that led to the motto of Proyecto Itzaes. Kaambal   u tia’al  Ka’ansaj—  Aprender para  Enseñar     Maya and Spanish respectively for  “Learning in Order to Teach.”

Proyecto Itzaes is  a California non-profit organization which  has been sponsored  in part by the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT) and Rotary International.

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