Annual Report 2022

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Learning as a priority

In 2022, partner organizations expanded their work with governments committed to student learning outcomes through the following programs: Educar pra Valer, Collaborative Literacy Program (PARC), Impulsionar, Formar, and Plantar Educação, spanning the nation with coverage in 22 states.

We also inaugurated the first year of a strategy that puts adolescents at the center of their learning process. And MegaEdu supported our efforts on school connectivity to offer high-quality personalized learning solutions to more schools more quickly. The number of adequate internet connections in public schools for pedagogical use increased from 25,000 to 47,000—an 88% increase.

Equity at the heart of learning

Data generation

Ethnic-racial snapshot in the applied assessments. The snapshot serves to generate data for designing more effective strategies to reduce inequalities.

Anti-racist initiatives in education networks

Municipal and state networks with support for developing anti-racist training strategies for teachers and for the production of didactic materials focused on racial equity.

Prioritizing historically marginalized students

Black and Indigenous students prioritized in learning-recovery actions.

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Data from PARC’s eight-state Reading Fluency Assessment (2022) shows that around 49% of 2nd grade students in public schools supported by the program have achieved adequate literacy levels.

The good news is that post-pandemic literacy recovery appears to be rapid. When we look at partner states that were part of the 2019, 2021, and 2022 Assessments, only 23.4% of children had adequate reading levels at the height of the pandemic in 2021, a noticeable difference compared to 40.3% in 2019. In 2022, the index in those same two states was 40.36%. PARC’s participating education networks recovered their pre-pandemic literacy levels with just one year of in-person classes.

The program has also gained momentum and traction. With Rio Grande do Sul (RS) beginning PARC, 12 states collaborated with their municipalities throughout 2022 and developed or continued their literacy policies. Seven of those states, Amapá (AP), Espírito Santo (ES), Goiás (GO), Sergipe (SE), Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), Pernambuco (PE), and Piauí (PI), have seen a direct positive impact on classrooms such as teacher training, assessments, and teaching materials focused on literacy.

Supports State Departments of Education in developing didactic material and training teachers, school administrators, and pedagogical coordinators.

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39% of 1st and 2nd grade students are enrolled in PARC-supported education networks

12 states

Literacy for all children at the right age is essential for a successful and happy life. It is a basic condition for exercising their rights and for the development of Brazil. Our role is to provide technical support so that every actor in the network can establish literacy as a priority and fulfill this objective.

Daniela Caldeirinha
Literacy-Focused Project Director at the Lemann Foundation

Teaching children to read and write requires a systemic policy involving different actors and bodies. The collaborative regime between federal entities is a powerful strategy provided for by law. Coordinated action must be taken for that to occur, and the various social organizations must be called on to engage in this crucial agenda.

Vânny Rodrigues
Assistant Director of PARC

In 2022, we started mobilizing the 497 mayors and municipal secretaries of education in Rio Grande do Sul to build a program to guarantee literacy for all students in the state’s public education network. PARC enabled us to integrate with other initiatives across the country and provided us with tools, instruments, and diverse types of support to make our program even more robust.

Stefanie Eskereski
Deputy Secretary of Education of the State of Rio Grande do Sul

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