May 27, 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, managers, researchers, and educators from across the country. The document brings together the contexts of project implementation, lessons learned from the journey, and the results that express what a structured continuing education policy, based on evidence and continuous monitoring, is capable of producing.
A cycle that completes in Maranhão
The most significant result of 2025 was the completion of the implementation cycle of the project Aprender: Dentro e Fora da Escola (Learning: Inside and Outside School) in Maranhão. After six years of partnership with the State Secretariat of Education (Seduc-MA), the secretariat will fully assume, starting in 2026, the management of the continuing education policy for Early Childhood Education — supported by the instruments, methodologies, and the network of qualified professionals throughout the cycle. The training architecture built jointly now belongs to the system.
To consolidate this legacy, Labedu conducted, in the second half of 2025, the process of systematizing the continuing education model for the Early Childhood Education Axis of the Pact for Learning. The result is the collection Aprender na Educação Infantil (Learning in Early Childhood Education), launched in partnership with Seduc-MA in 2026, with workbooks for teacher training and activity plans for direct use in training cycles. In parallel, 1,000 children's literature books with racial representation have been delivered to schools and daycare centers in the five partner municipalities since 2019, and recordings of reading activities carried out in schools are now part of future training, 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 Aprender a Estudar Textos (AET - Learning to Study Texts) project expanded its operations in 2025 to three territorial fronts. In Maranhão, it completed the second year of implementation in 16 priority municipalities of the Pact for Learning, with 500 teachers and 7,000 children in the 4th and 5th grades. In São Paulo, it was implemented in partnership with the Regional Teaching Directorate 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 diagnosis process that involved all levels of the networks and laid the groundwork for the 2026 training cycles.
The final evaluations of the training registered significant results in the two territories where it is being implemented. 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 for promoting student learning in reading and stated that they changed their practice after participating in the project.
Research and presence in national debate
2025 was also a year of advances in the research agenda. The partnership with Professor Carrie Conaway, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, advanced to a new phase, with the analysis of data collected by the regional and local Maranhão teams to understand which elements of quality continuing education are related to changes in classroom practices. The first results were presented at the VII Brazilian Congress of Literacy, and the lessons learned reached the public debate through an article in Nexo Políticas Públicas and a publication in Cadernos de Pesquisa of the Carlos Chagas Foundation.
In the field of public policies, Labedu integrated the national debate on the National Parameters for Quality and Equity 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 360º Literacy Seminar of the Ayrton Senna Institute, and the 2nd International Seminar on Early Childhood Education of the Bracell Foundation.
Access the 2025 Activity Report here