Project
Innovations for Quality Education: from Management to the Classroom
The technical cooperation project on Innovations for quality education and Innovative technologies in education and digital communication is a partnership from the S茫o Paulo Municipal Secretariat of Education () and UNESCO Brasilia. Its objective is to strengthen the educational governance in S茫o Paulo city through innovative actions for quality education and democratic management. Since 2014 the activities developed within the context of the technical cooperation has resulted in rich knowledge production with various publications issued as Open Educational Resources (OER) and innovations in the fields of pedagogy, academy, technology, school management, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), contributing to the provision of equitable and inclusive quality education in one of the largest school systems in Latin America.
Today, the school system in S茫o Paulo has around 1.37 million students registered from pre-school to upper secondary education level, including adult and youth education and indigenous education. It also covers a rich diversity of migrant students and the ones with deficiencies.
S茫o Paulo city is a pioneer in the world in relating the learning objectives in its municipal curriculum to the .
The Project is developed based on three main themes:
- Curriculum and SDGs
- Educacional Management
- Technological Innovations
Features of Education in S茫o Paulo City
Curriculum and SDGs
The City of S茫o Paulo Curriculum (Curr铆culo da Cidade de S茫o Paulo) integrates the SDGs in all areas of knowledge in the following modalities and has as Guiding Principles:
- Inclusive Education
- Equity and Comprehensive Education
In addition, the materials also present a Matrix of Knowledge that includes ethical, political, and aesthetic principles oriented towards the exercise of responsible citizenship to enable the construction of a more egalitarian, fair, democratic, and solidary society related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The S茫o Paulo City Curriculum initiative has integrated the SDGs in all knowledge areas of:
- Early Childhood Education
- Special Needs Education
- Indigenous Education
- Youth and Adult Education
- Primary and Lower Secondary Education
Curr铆culo da Cidade de S茫o Paulo website
Its objective is to support S茫o Paulo City through the Municipal Education Secretariat (SME) in the innovative initiative of integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Studies
Significant research studies were carried out within the scope of this cooperation project, aiming to connect the SME-SP with the academic field, proposing real issues to guide the research agenda and contribute to public education policies in the municipality. To incorporate technical knowledge, promote the circulation of knowledge and encourage the development of research on fundamental themes for educational management aligned to open science principles.
These studies have resulted in webinars:
- A amplia莽茫o da jornada e a educa莽茫o integral na Rede Municipal de Ensino 鈥 RME: , , ,
Educational Management Impacts
Some examples of educational resources
Technological Innovations
The (Digital Yard) initiative has the objective of strengthening transparency, social participation, and development of new technologies. It has made different groups of the civil society to get closer together to reach a common major goal: to improve education in the city of S茫o Paulo. The structure of the initiative is based on three axes:
- Transparency and Open Data
- Government-Society Collaboration
- Technology Innovation
Platform on Education of Ethnic and Racial Relations
The online platform for discussing the issues related to the education of ethnic and racial relations is currently in the implementation phase.
It intends to:
- Exchanging experiences and sharing pedagogical resources (forums, teaching material, multimedia libraries, photo galleries, exchanging messages, publishing experiences and reports, etc.).
- Monitoring/following the actions and projects of the school network, which comprises 62,306 educators and school managers
- Two capacity-building sessions for the ERER Working Group
SME-SP Cooperation Programme on Educational Research
Through partnerships to build a research agenda that responds to the challenges of municipal education, the Educational Research Cooperation Programme is currently developing 4 qualitative/quantitative studies with educational institutions on the following themes:
- Parallel Recovery
- Teacher Evasion and Absenteeism
- Integral Education
- Learning Assessment
It involves all segments of the municipal network comprised of 62 thousand of education professionals.
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) and SDGs in Basic Education Curriculum
SDG Mediating Students
Through Imprensa Jovem (Youth Press), a news agency designed and developed by the students, activities include creating newspapers, radio programs, comic books, fanzines, blogs and research, followed by practical actions on cinema, photojournalism and television journalism. Teaching new platforms, such as podcasts, is also part of the school journey.
In 2020, during school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, within the scope of the Imprensa Jovem, with the support of UNESCO, SME-SP created the SDG Mediating Students pilot initiative.
The SDG Mediating Students has developed an online course on SDGs, health education, combating disinformation on social platforms and networks, and developing socio-emotional skills. The training has been expanded to another phase involving teachers. The online course session has been certified by SME-SP and UNESCO in Brazil.
SDG Mediating Students pilot initiative
elementary school students and teachers benefited
Missing School
In this video, students from the Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) Mediators initiative read a text from the excerpt from the chronicle 鈥淪audade da Escola鈥 (Missing School), made collaboratively by students from the Coronel Rom茫o Gomes Municipal School, in S茫o Paulo-SP, in 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
