Creative Language-Based Learning Foundation

Creative Language-Based Learning Foundation
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$1,131.00 Pledged

$300,000.00 Goal

Creative Language-Based Learning Foundation

The CLBL Foundation is a non-profit educational initiative committed to transforming literacy and numeracy instruction across Jamaica. Equipping early childhood, primary, secondary, special needs, and tertiary educators with differentiated, research-based Lindamood-Bell methodologies ensures that every child has access to quality education, regardless of background or learning ability. Teachers are support through year-round job-embedded coaching to ensure fidelity of practice. This is not a short-term intervention, but a capacity-building model that ensures systematic growth and sustainability in Jamaican schools. Each trained teacher becomes a multiplier: directly impacting students and mentoring peers to do the same.

  • Org Type:

    Charity

  • Org Size:

    6 - 10

  • Years of Operation:

    8

  • Use of Funds:

    Funds will support two literacy workshops, instructional materials for 48 teachers across 5–8 schools, year-round job-embedded coaching, Summer Learning for teachers and students, and development of a comprehensive progress-tracking portal. This initiative cultivates lifelong literacy skills among educators who will positively impact thousands of students across all age groups

  • Parish(s):

    Kingston, St. Andrew, Portland, St. Thomas, St. Catherine, St. Mary, St. Ann, Manchester, Clarendon, Hanover, Westmoreland, St. James, Trelawny, St. Elizabeth

  • Address:

    2-2B Shortwood Road, Kingston 8, Jamaica

  • Tax Registration Number:

    002-806-584

  • Website:

    https://clblfoundation.org/

Mission/Impact Statement

CLBL Foundation builds a community of specialist educators, skilled in providing research-validated, remedial teaching methodologies and targeted support in reading, comprehension and maths for students, thereby assisting them in reaching their full potential.

Current Needs

This year, CLBL will deliver professional development to 600 teachers (250 new and 350 returning) through workshops, year-round coaching, and Summer Learning. Each teacher will reach 20+ students annually for 10 years, impacting 120,000 children and driving Jamaica's literacy transformation.

Awards/Honors

The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MOESYI) has endorsed CLBL's Literacy and Numeracy Teacher Training Programme. nIn June 2025, MOESYI formally included the Lindamood-Bell methodology in the Ministry's Early Reading Intervention Strategy for all Grades 1-3.

Key Services or Activities

CLBL's programme includes teacher selection, Lindamood-Bell workshops, year-round job-embedded coaching to Local Instructional Mentorship development and Summer Learning Sessions for immersive practice. Teachers gain literacy & numeracy skills while students advance in reading, comprehension, critical thinking, and maths. Monthly PLCs, webinars, and "Tips for Home" parent workshops strengthen support. From 2025-26, integration into Teachers' Colleges will impact roughly 500 graduating teachers annually.