GALS Inspired Schools
MAIA Impact School
Guatemala
The MAIA Impact School opened in 2017 to address the low quality of education available to indigenous young women in rural Guatemala. The Impact School is a secondary school created to maximize the potential of Maya girls by providing a high-quality education while supporting holistic social-emotional development and celebrating culture. It is the only school of its kind in Central America. Every aspect of the school, the curriculum, and the mentorship program has been developed to nourish and connect the girls’ talents with the opportunities of the 21st century.
The school offers a rigorous academic curriculum designed to meet the needs of the 21st century and prepare Girl Pioneers to enter university and the formal workforce.
The Impact School maintains a strong focus on social-emotional development through a mentorship program that covers topics such as vocal empowerment, human rights, reproductive health, financial literacy, and civic engagement, topics that continue to impact her life long after she has graduated from high school.
Inbar School
Israel
Inbar opened in 2019 as an educational track for girls, and currently serves students in grades 7-12. Inbar strives to be an outstanding educational framework, with the objective of enabling girls to reach their full potential, to succeed and excel academically, socially and morally. As a national secular educational track, Inbar provides students with an equal opportunity to develop and grow into significant and influential women, who freely choose their path, express their opinions clearly, and are leaders for themselves and their surroundings.
The school fosters leadership through developing excellence on three levels:
Personal Excellence – Placing emphasis on the needs of each student, her desires and strengths, and her ability to find and express her voice in order to get to know herself and to act based on self-confidence in every circle in which she is present.
Academic Excellence – Students are able to choose areas of study that interest them, in addition to the educational curriculum. We will use innovative pedagogical tools to create a learning environment that arouses curiosity and inspiration. We will expose the students to diverse content outside of school and to learning in different spaces.
Social/Community Excellence — Building women’s leadership that relates to the general community situation and to the situation of women specifically and takes responsibility through awareness, critical thinking, a system-wide perspective and a Tikkun Olam perspective.