Laboratório de Educação puts content into action through special projects implemented in partnership with organizations that work with children 0 to 10 years old. Our theory of change is that professional development opportunities, when conducted in-service, help mediate educators’ appropriation of knowledge on how to support learning through intentionally planned activities and interventions. For this reason, we develop customized solutions that target the needs of various stakeholders inside and outside the school context.
Our projects seek to provide educators with continued opportunities to reflect on their practice, articulating their unique professional role with a systemic perspective.
We introduce professional development strategies that take real classroom challenges as the starting point to theorize and construct educational knowledge. Our solutions focus on teachers, pedagogical supervisors, principals and district leaders who serve in Brazilian public school districts.
Our projects aim to establish collaborative networks with nonprofit organizations that indirectly reach children outside the school context.
We create structured formative materials that enable professionals from various fields (e.g. health, social work, housing, etc.) to incorporate pedagogical knowledge into their practice in order to promote meaningful interactions among the families they serve.