The Golden Educational Initiative Incorporated provides networking and mentoring programs that develop critical thinking skills, promote goal seeking, and facilitate the practice of learning strategies that support student achievement. We are helping Pre-K through University-level students "connect the dots of their ambition" via projects and events that will equip them with targeted and tangible educational support, and encourage resiliency as they learn to construct their own thoughts and meaningfully engage the world around them.

As a servant leader, parent, highly-effective public school teacher, grant writer and philanthropist, Vivian L. James brings the unique skill-set and drive necessary to execute our mission with excellence and integrity.  With a focus rooted in her passion for empowering "the least of these", Mrs. James brings over 20 years of combined non-profit development and classroom experience to the work of "Helping Students Connect The Dots Of Their Ambition".

SUMMER SKILLED READING PROGRAM

At The Golden Educational Initiative Incorporated, we understand that there is a well-established relationship between reading comprehension and critical thinking.  Improving the reading comprehension skills of students across various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds is no easy feat, but we can facilitate progress in this area by providing what few students receive consistently during the school year: small work groups, individualized reading strategies that centralize their interests, and time to generalize their learning within a real-life context.  It is vital that a student's effort to comprehend what they are reading results in something tangible and meaningful beyond a grade or an improved test score. Through our Summer Skilled Reading Program, we are determined to foster a 'love of knowing' as a foundation for growth and achievement.

BACK TO SCHOOL FAIR

In addition to bringing the community together to celebrate the beginning of a new school year, our goal is to equip attendees with basic and specialty academic supplies that may be cost prohibitive to the families of the student population we serve.