September 16, 2025
The Learning to Study Texts (AET) project began a new implementation this year, marking the expansion of the methodology to six municipalities in the Feira de Santana region of Bahia: Água Fria, Antônio Cardoso, Conceição da Feira, Conceição do Jacuípe, Ipecaetá, and Irará. Since the beginning of the year, processes of coordination with the municipal education departments have been underway, as well as the first mobilization actions, in preparation for the start of the training processes in 2026.
The initiative will cover all 4th and 5th grade classes in the municipalities, reaching approximately 100 schools and 3,700 students directly, with the potential to involve around 500 teachers at this level.
This movement seeks to support school networks in implementing national policies such as the National Pact for the Reconstruction of Learning and the Commitment to a Literate Child. Understanding that curricular prioritization requires specific approaches to learning the written language, AET proposes a methodology that places the text at the center of classroom practices , allowing teachers to work on essential skills in an integrated and contextualized way, and contributing to the development of children's reading competence.
In this initial implementation phase, diagnostic actions of the networks are carried out in a participatory manner with the teams from the municipal education departments. This process involves listening sessions with technical teams from the departments, school administrators, educators, and students from the territories, in addition to the use of direct observation instruments and other qualitative strategies. The objective is to jointly build a shared vision of the challenges and potential of each municipality, in order to guide the most appropriate design of the implementation in the territory.
As part of this strategy, meetings have already been held with Undime (National Union of Municipal Education Directors) and with technical teams from municipal education departments. At the beginning of September, discussion sessions were held with school administrators, who, in addition to presenting the project, promoted formative reflections on the contexts of reading in schools and their relationship to the desired results. The teams were invited to project what transformations they expect to achieve over the three years of work with Labedu (Laboratory of Reading and Communication), establishing perspectives to guide the design of the project's implementation.
For Nicole Paulet, director of Labedu, the arrival of the project in the region creates opportunities for educators and students to be involved in a methodology with enormous potential to boost learning through reading. “We have been following, monitoring, and researching the transformative effects of AET in schools and networks as a whole, and we see the potential that the project has in these six municipalities that are beginning work with Labedu. We are developing, together with the municipal teams, a participatory diagnosis, which is already configured as a formative process. By collectively reflecting on the current challenges and the results we wish to achieve, we are outlining paths for the project to be implemented consistently over the next three years,” she states.
The project will last four years, following the implementation model for continuing education programs structured by Labedu. After the first year of articulation, diagnosis, and design, the training cycles will begin and will continue until 2028. The partnership encompasses a gradual process of creating conditions so that the networks can lead training actions autonomously, contributing to the long-term sustainability of continuing education after the project's conclusion. The goal is for the networks to incorporate the advances brought about by the partnership and institutionalize the practices. The initiative has the support and resources of [organization name]. Maria Emilia Foundation.