By Ayrton Senna Institute | Project Leader
It has been two years since we introduced this project to improve education in the State of Piauí. We would like to thank very much the 519 people who have dedicated their time to read our posts and contribute to our results. And we would like to share these achievements with you!
In total, over the two years that the partnership has been running, almost 120,000 children and young people, in more than 600 schools in 130 towns have been benefitted. These students’ pass rates, in the schools accompanied by the Institute, jumped from 86.5% in 2013, to 92.3% in 2014, whilst the percentage of students dropping out of school fell from 3.9% to 0.8%.
The Ayrton Senna Institute brought to Piaui’s Department of Education an administrative culture focused on results. The strategy implemented brought together leadership training, strategic planning, goals’ monitoring and the evaluation of schools’ indicators.
This can be demonstrated through the observation made by a school principal of São Miguel do Tapuio: “One of the most important contributions that the Institute has brought has been the daily monitoring of the students registered on a chart in each classroom, as well as the monitoring of reading and writing in the first years of primary education. The team from the Education Department developed this monitoring in all the schools, in the urban region as well as the rural areas, promptly intervening, whenever necessary, for the students’ success.”
There were numerous positive impacts on the lives of the students: from reading and writing improvement, to issues such as responsibility and discipline. The teacher Iraneide Santana, from Teresina, told us that her biggest problem had been the number of absences amongst the students, who often skipped school to help their families gather things from the waste dump near the school. “Today, my students choose which books they want to read. The awakening for reading, studying and their worth as citizens is what attracts them. Now they say that they prefer to come to school than go to the dump; they want to receive the green sticker, common and important goal of all students. No one wants the blue one, which means that they were present, but didn’t take part in the activities.”
We believe that the work developed has been incorporated by educators and should follow the path towards an improvement and strengthening of the public policies in the covered schools - policies that always have a student focus centered.
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By Ayrton Senna Institute | Project Leader
By Ayrton Senna Institute | Project Leader
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