October 30, 2025
Labedu, in partnership with the Maranhão State Department of Education (Seduc/MA), has begun the process of systematizing the continuing education model for the Early Childhood Education Axis of the Pact for Learning. This process will be consolidated into a document that synthesizes the roles, actions, and principles that underpin the continuing education policy in early childhood education within the framework of the Maranhão collaborative regime. More than just a record, the material identifies strategies, results, and expectations to guide the continuity of teacher and administrator training actions, as a permanent mechanism for improving practice and guaranteeing children's right to quality education from their earliest years.
Labedu has been working as a partner of Seduc/MA since 2021 in the structuring, implementation, and monitoring of the continuing education policy for teachers and managers of early childhood education, in a collaborative regime. The Collaborative Regime defines the sharing of responsibilities, resources, and efforts between the state and municipalities, allowing the public policy to consolidate and generate consistent and lasting results in pedagogical and management practices, across different administrations.
Over the past two years, the partnership's actions have also been part of the strategies of the National Commitment to Literate Children, a federal government program that establishes the foundations of literacy policy from a perspective that considers the language development process from early childhood and extends beyond the 2nd grade. The materials, content, and strategies of the Learning Language methodology, from Labedu, are structuring components for designing high-quality continuing education.
In this context of joint action, Labedu leads today The transition process to a new phase, in which Seduc/MA (the Maranhão State Department of Education) fully assumes the implementation and monitoring processes of the training policy without the organization's involvement. The systematization process is a key strategy to consolidate the commitments that will enable the sustainability of this legacy.
To this end, Labedu has been conducting workshops with the support of Opta Consultoria, bringing together Regional Pedagogical Coordinators (APRs), Municipal Pedagogical Coordinators (APMs), managers, and technicians from Seduc since the second half of this year. The objective is to collaboratively build the document, listening to those who participated directly in the project and those who will use the material to guide the training policy.
In addition to documenting the strategies and structure of the training, Labedu coordinates the recording of reading activities in schools in the five municipalities that participated in the diagnosis and the pilot phase in the Médio Mearim Region. The recordings undergo an editing process to be used in training sessions, as a reference for APRs, APMs, and early childhood education teachers to develop reading practices with babies and children.
"The work of early childhood education teachers in Maranhão with reading is much more than an inspiration; it's a benchmark. With recordings of activities carried out in schools and daycare centers integrated into new training programs, they become concrete references for how to do things in real-life learning contexts, guided by the knowledge they have built during their training, studies, and professional practices," emphasizes Maria Grembecki, coordinator of Methodologies and Projects at Labedu.
Labedu is also developing a manual for monitoring the implementation of actions within the collaborative framework, reflecting the central role that monitoring plays in the institution's methodologies. The material will provide guidelines and proposed routines for data collection, visualization, and analysis to provide feedback to training processes, as well as observation protocols for activities carried out in municipalities and early childhood education units, among other tools. The incorporation of monitoring as an essential part of policy implementation has ensured greater alignment of training with local needs, strengthening a continuous learning cycle involving all actors in the collaborative framework.
For Andrea Porto, a technician from Seduc/MA who participates in the initiative, the systematization also serves to value the professionals involved and early childhood education as a whole. "Systematizing experiences is, beyond being a record of a lived journey, an exercise that allows us to reflect on different experiences, identify advances and challenges, and reorganize elements to improve our practices. I hope that the material reveals the people who engaged in the project, especially APRs and APMs, and leaves as a legacy a shift in perspective on childhood, recognizing the child as an autonomous subject and valuing their cultures, in addition to the evolution of early childhood education professionals in our territory," she concludes.
Labedu's presence in Maranhão began in 2019 with the diagnosis and implementation of the "Learning: Inside and Outside the School" project in five municipalities of the Médio Mearim region. Following this pilot project, the organization became the technical partner for early childhood education training policy in the state, utilizing... Learning Language methodology and impacting more than 300,000 children. The initiative has the support of Eneva in its implementation, as well as the Limmat Foundation and the Îandé Institute in the systematization process. The collaboration is also the subject of research conducted in partnership with Professor Carrie Conaway of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The systematization materials are expected to be delivered to Seduc/MA in March 2026.