Meaningful learning for children,inside and outside of school.
In May, Labedu marks 14 years of operations and releases its 2025 Activity Report, providing an overview of the work carried out over the past year in partnership with public education networks, administrators, researchers, and educators across the country.
Based on the “Learning to Study Texts” methodology, the material supports teachers and students in grades 6 through 9 at public schools across the country in improving the teaching of reading and writing.
Maranhão stood out among the states that surpassed the target: 69% of children are literate by the end of the second grade—a 9-percentage-point increase since 2024—with the *Aprender: Dentro e Fora da Escola* (Learning: Inside and Outside School) project playing a role in this effort.
Labedu develops and implements research-based methodologies, tested in practice and adapted to different contexts.
We support educational networks in the implementation and monitoring of continuous educator training, ensuring ownership by system stakeholders and driving transformations in the professional culture of these networks so that all children reach their learning potential.
To support actions and strategies, it is not enough to define, produce, and provide quality content. We live in a context where information is widely available, even excessively so. The question that arises is how we help educators filter and translate this knowledge into practice. In this context, Labedu relies on the following principles:
Research
The classroom is both the starting point and the destination of our research. We investigate how policies are designed, how they reach schools, and the effects they have on pedagogical practices, generating knowledge for public debate and for those involved in school management and classroom teaching.
Implementation
We value implementation as a structured learning opportunity. We work with departments of education to translate objectives into actionable steps, taking into account local knowledge and the day-to-day reality of schools, thereby creating the conditions for education systems to adopt practices that endure beyond the partnership.
Monitoring
Our monitoring is formative, not an exercise in external control. Integrated with continuous professional development, it generates information that guides decisions and adjusts processes. Technical teams, administrators, and teachers actively participate in analyzing evidence, thereby enhancing the network's capacity for self-learning.
Advocacy
Our practice gathers evidence on how educational policies are structured and the effects they produce within public school systems. We translate this experience into documents that refine diagnoses and guide decision-making, grounded in the conviction that evidence from the classroom raises the standard of policies.
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