Meet the Team
The school is called K’iin Beh, a Mayan phrase meaning “the way of the sun.” It focuses not only on providing a solid education to local children, but more importantly, it instills in the students strong values and principles. K’iin Beh is a licensed nonprofit foundation. Tuition is based on the specific economic situation of each family and every child receives some form of scholarship. Half the classes are taught in English and half the classes are taught in Spanish. There are a number of allotted places designated for children of employees from Rosewood Mayakoba.
Founded in 2011, Ki’in Beh has grown from a preschool class of 20 children to 200 students from elementary to middle school.
In 2015 the school had 120 children from Kindergarten through 6th grade but had limited resources and poor facilities. Furthermore, they had been asked to move out of the land they were temporarily using and school would be closing. An additional piece of land had been donated to the school and the construction of the new building had initiated, but they had no money to move forward with the project.
With the help of the Rosewood Mayakoba Resort, K’iin Beh reopened in 2017 in a newly rebuilt facility.
With the leadership of Daniel Scott, the school reopened on August 20th 2017 and has now 11 fully equipped classrooms, a multipurpose covered athletic facility, a dining area, restrooms and administrative offices. We continue to keep the non-profit running through support of Mayakoba and are working on the improvement of the school.
Connecting through cohabitation and shared experience.
We also created “Padrinos” program supported by several Rosewood employees, guests, owners, friends and family which is meant to pay tuition and be role model for underprivileged children who study at K'iin Beh, giving them the opportunity to build a better future and be the leaders of our community.
About The Founder: Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott, Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Rosewood Mayakoba, discovered in 2015,the non- profit K’iin Beh Educational Center through a friend of Mayakoba. The first time he visited the school that was located in an unprivileged neighborhood known as Cristo Rey, in Playa del Carmen, he met Raquel Mitre, the Principal of the school who shared this meaningful project that had started 7 years earlier but was going to close its doors.
Daniel Scott and Rosewood Mayakoba decided to support this dream and committed to pay for the construction of the new school. Since then, we have received contributions from the Scott family, the Ownership of Mayakoba, Guests of Mayakoba and from Employees of Rosewood.
What is most important about our foundation is that 24 educational professionals, led by Director Raquel Mitre, promote a culture based on respect and honesty and teach proper values to the students to prepare them to be the future leaders of our community.