LAJAM Education Foundation was born out of lived frustration — and a deep love for our students.

As bilingual educators in Texas, we worked in classrooms full of bright, capable children — many of them English learners, many of them struggling to read. Despite being taught in Spanish or with bilingual materials, something critical was missing: the curriculum wasn’t truly built for them.

Most materials were simply translated from English, not designed with the linguistic, cultural, and cognitive needs of bilingual children in mind. They didn’t reflect how these students learn — or who they are.

We watched students try everything to decode words. Many had undiagnosed dyslexia or other learning differences. Instead of being supported, they were labeled as behind — or worse, referred to special education without the right interventions ever being tried.

As teachers, we knew it wasn’t our students who were failing.
It was the system.

That’s why we created LAJAM — to build the tools and training we needed but never had.

We design bilingual, culturally relevant early literacy materials grounded in the science of reading and tailored for the needs of dual-language learners with dyslexia and other challenges. We train teachers to spot learning differences early, and give them the right strategies to support every learner — in Spanish and in English — right inside the general education classroom.

LAJAM exists so no child has to feel broken for learning differently.

We’re not just closing an academic gap.
We’re restoring dignity. We’re reigniting confidence.
We’re helping children find their voice — and their power — through reading.

We created LAJAM because we saw the problem up close.
Now, we’re building the solution — one student, one classroom at a time.

Lajam Education Foundation Corporation

Building Bright Futures: Bilingual Literacy for Every Child