Public Education in Brazil

As of the 2023 School Census, Brazil maintains the largest educational network in Latin America, encompassing 47.3 million students across 178,500 schools. Despite notable progress in recent decades, Brazil remains among the world's most unequal countries, a disparity reflected in education, with concerning learning indices among the most vulnerable populations. Education's urgency is underscored by its inclusion in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, specifically Goal 4, which aims to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all".

Teachers: The Agents of Transformation

According to the World Bank, supporting teachers is the most efficient and effective way to improve education. Consequently, Nova Escola focuses on supporting public school teachers' practices to enhance their students' learning outcomes.

About Nova Escola

Nova Escola (ANE) is an nonprofit EdTech that offers free professional development and quality pedagogical content to public education teachers in Brazil to contribute to students’ learning outcomes. Our dream is to be the school of every public school teachers in Brazil. To get there, we develop solutions that integrate the pedagogical quality of our products with the technological innovations of artificial intelligence, optimizing educators' time and ensuring effective classes.

What impact do we make?

Figures that show the reflection of our work on Brazilian Education

3,8M

Users being informed with our website’s content every month

230k

Teachers and school leaders have already updated their practice with our online courses

1,4M

Educators have used our lesson plans on a monthly basis

What Teachers Say

Check out what teacher Daniele Melo has to say about the impact of Nova Escola on her daily life

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How can you support us?

Learn how to contribute towards our goals.

Become a partner

Be on our side by increasingly strengthening educators through joint solutions.

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Become an advertiser

Use our channels to communicate your campaigns, products and services to the largest community of educators in Brazil.

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Become a donor

Help us to further expand the scope and impact of our actions.

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What projects have we already carried out?

Solutions developed with partners to support teachers and school leaders

Google.org + Fundação Lemann

Nova Escola Lesson Plans

Preparation of 6,000 quality lesson plans, available for free and based on the National Common Core Curriculum (BNCC), for Elementary and High School teachers across Brazil.

Itaú Social + Fundação Lemann

Educational Materials - states of Amapá, Ceará and São Paulo

Development of integrated teaching materials (e.g.: textbooks) for the states of Amapá, Ceará and São Paulo, which embodies all the implementation process: from creation to the training for the teaching staff involved.

Prosperity Fund - Governo Britânico

English Teaching Material - Skills for Prosperity - in partnership with the British government

Production and dissemination of materials, and trainings for English teachers aligned with the BNCC and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Google.org

Educative Connection

This initiative supported public education teachers so as to ensure the continuity of lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nova Escola adapted 6,000 lesson plans for distance learning, which strengthened teacher preparation. Nova Escola also provided weekly online training sessions and formative materials about how to use the lesson plans and digital tools. Moreover, Nova Escola showcased the best practices adopted by teachers and schools throughout the pandemic.

Facebook

Network Education

Initiative aimed at alleviating the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on education. Nova Escola promoted online continuing education and the exchange of experiences amongst teachers through tutorial videos and live broadcasts. We also created a social media group where Nova Escola shared content focused on the use of everyday digital tools in a simple and effective way.

Instituto Gerdau

Entrepreneurial Education

Production and dissemination of teaching materials (lesson plans and pedagogical projects), as well as online courses on a transversal topic introduced by the BNCC: Entrepreneurial Education.

Tide Setúbal + Fundação Lemann

Emotional Health from A to Z Movement - A movement for the health of those who teach

This initiative aims to inform, equip and bring management and teaching staff closer to mental health professionals in order to share information to raise awareness of the subject and also to present paths and strategies that alleviate the emotional impact of the crisis caused by Covid-19.

Youtube

National Common Core Curriculum (BNCC) in High School

Course pathways on Youtube to help educators facing the challenge of interpreting and implementing the BNCC in High School with dissemination of high quality free educational content, so that educators understand the New High School Reform and learn how to face its main challenges, through real cases that are attractive and inspiring.

Associação Parceiros da Educação RJ

Continuing Education - Back to Face-to-Face learning

Training Program composed of online meetings for teachers from schools supported by Associação Parceiros da Educação RJ, a non-profit organization committed to the improvement of public education. The meetings had the objective of preparing teachers for the resumption of learning activities following school closures caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. This initiative allowed in-depth discussions on lesson planning with a focus on development of skills - one of the premises of the BNCC - in blended learning.

Instituto Cyrela

Continuing Education - Early Childhood Education

Training Program composed of online meetings held remotely and a venue for the exchange of ideas with a library of online activities. The aim of this initiative is to provide teachers and pedagogical coordinators of Early Childhood Education with tools to deal with blended learning, by proposing classroom activities at school and homework activities that must be done with family support.

Instituto Gesto/ Programa Formar

Continuing Education - Lesson Planning for Skills Development

Programa Formar consists of face-to-face and online meetings with teachers, school managers and trainers from several municipal and state education networks. The topics discussed entailed lesson planning for the development of skills in line with the BNCC and the respective regional curricula.

Who already supports us?

Partners that work with Nova Escola to strengthen educators and transform Brazil