8 de July de 2026
In May, LabEdu completed 14 years of operation and launched the 2025 Activity Report, which provides an overview of the work carried out over the past year in partnership with public education networks, administrators, researchers, and educators across the country. The document presents the implementation contexts of the projects, the lessons learned along the way, and the results that demonstrate what a structured continuous training policy, based on evidence and continuous monitoring, is capable of producing.
A Cycle Completed in Maranhão
The most significant result of 2025 was the completion of the implementation cycle of the Learning: Inside and Outside the School project in Maranhão. After six years of partnership with the State Department of Education (Seduc-MA), the department will fully assume, starting in 2026, the management of the continuous training policy for Early Childhood Education—sustained by the instruments, methodologies, and network of qualified professionals developed throughout the entire cycle. The training architecture built jointly now belongs to the system.
To consolidate this legacy, LabEdu conducted, in the second half of 2025, the systematization process of the continuous training model for the Early Childhood Education Axis of the Learning Pact. The result is the Learning in Early Childhood Education collection, launched in partnership with Seduc-MA in 2026, with booklets for educator training and activity plans for direct use in training cycles. In parallel, 1,000 children’s literature books with racial representation were delivered to schools and daycare centers in the five partner municipalities since 2019, and recordings of reading activities conducted in schools will now be integrated into future training sessions, making the Maranhão teachers themselves a reference for qualified practice for the entire state policy.
The results of the 2025 Literacy Completion Index express what this investment has produced: 69% literacy in Maranhão, 9 percentage points above the previous year and above the national average.
AET Advances in Three Territories
The Learning to Study Texts (AET) project expanded its operations in 2025 to three territorial fronts. In Maranhão, it completed its second year of implementation in 16 priority municipalities of the Learning Pact, with 500 teachers and 7,000 children in 4th and 5th grade. In São Paulo, it was implemented in partnership with the Regional Education Board of Guaianases, reaching 41 schools, 92 teachers, 82 pedagogical coordinators, and more than 1,200 children. In Bahia, six municipalities in the Portal do Sertão region began their partnership with LabEdu, with a participatory diagnostic process that involved all levels of the networks and laid the foundation for the 2026 training cycles.
The final evaluations of the training sessions recorded significant results in the two territories under implementation. In Guaianases, 100% of teachers stated that the training positively impacted their classroom practice, and 94% believe that the practices worked on will continue to be integrated into their professional lives for five years or more. In Maranhão, 100% of respondents considered the content relevant to promoting student learning in reading and stated that they changed their practice after participating in the project.
Research and Presence in the National Debate
2025 was also a year of progress in the research agenda. The work in partnership with Professor Carrie Conaway, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, advanced to a new phase, with analysis of data collected by regional and local teams in Maranhão to understand which elements of quality continuous training are related to changes in classroom practices. The first results were presented at the VII Brazilian Literacy Congress, and the findings reached the public debate through an article in Nexo Public Policy and a publication in the Research Notebooks of the Carlos Chagas Foundation.
In the field of public policy, LabEdu joined the national debate on the National Quality and Equity Parameters for Early Childhood Education, within the scope of Conaquei, and was present in spaces such as the Congress of the Association of Education Journalists, the Literacy 360º Seminar of the Ayrton Senna Institute, and the 2nd International Symposium on Early Childhood Education of the Bracell Foundation.
Access the 2025 Activity Report here