Ladderworks is a publishing platform of numerous image books and on-line curriculum with the mission to empower over 1,000,000 children to develop into social entrepreneurs. Our present sequence options interviews by our interplanetary journalist Spiffy with inspiring Social Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Builders, and Changemakers who’re advancing the UN SDGs.
Hello associates, it’s Spiffy, again once more on Planet Earth with an eye fixed on entrepreneurs making the world a extra equitable place! Right this moment I’m excited to cruise round with Ana Ligia Scachetti, CEO of Associacao Nova Escola. Are you able to be impressed?
Spiffy: Thanks for becoming a member of me, Ana Ligia! Inform me, what problem are you addressing by way of your group?
Ana Ligia: Thanks for inviting me, Spiffy! Nova Escola is a non-profit group, and we work to assist public faculty lecturers in Brazil. About 35 million college students are in public colleges in our nation, and we’re in one of many backside positions of the Pisa Examination. We provide free content material on-line to assist lecturers with their challenges. Our web site has information studies to encourage the educators, lesson plans, and on-line programs. We additionally produce textbooks {and professional} improvement packages for lecturers in partnership with the secretariats of training.
Spiffy: Wow, what impactful work you and your group do! What motivates you to do it?
Ana Ligia: I studied journalism and pedagogy, and Nova Escola provides me the prospect to unify these two careers that I like. I’ve additionally studied in public colleges, and my mom was a public faculty instructor. So, daily, I really feel like I’m hugging lecturers throughout Brazil and whispering to them that they aren’t alone; we’re right here to grasp, worth, and assist them.
Spiffy: I like the way you draw in your private {and professional} experiences. Are you able to additional elaborate on the affect of your work?
Ana Ligia: At present, greater than half of Brazilian lecturers would not have entry to persevering with skilled improvement. We wish to change that and to be the place the place lecturers can take into consideration their challenges and discover concepts and options. A mean of three million customers go to our web site per 30 days and have rated our content material a 9 out of ten. We’ve got skilled 230,000 lecturers throughout Brazil, and 250,000 lecturers use our textbooks serving over three million youngsters.
Spiffy: Inform me a couple of current milestone or initiative by you or the group. What affect does that make in your group?
Ana Ligia: In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil was one of many nations that had its colleges closed for the longest time. We chosen lecturers to adapt the 6,000 lesson plans on our platform for distant use, and we additionally provided free on-line programs concerning the challenges they had been dealing with. We talked about a number of points, from talk with childrens’ households to use blended studying. After colleges reopened, we began to work on studying restoration, which remains to be a serious concern in Brazil.
Spiffy: Is there the rest you’ll love to inform our viewers?
Ana Ligia: I wish to spotlight that whenever you work to assist a particular group of individuals, it’s actually vital to contemplate the true wants of the general public. It may appear simpler to resolve by your self, however it’s not efficient. At Nova Escola, we contain lecturers in our manufacturing course of. We check our new merchandise in public colleges and are at all times in search of suggestions from lecturers.
Spiffy: That’s nice recommendation. Thanks for talking with me immediately, Ana Ligia—it’s been an honor!
Ana Ligia Scachetti is a journalist and educator, mom of Francisco, and has labored at Associacao Nova Escola since 2011. She loves speaking to lecturers and discovering good practices in public training that may be shared to encourage everybody. (Nominated by Cristina Londoño at VélezReyes+. First printed on the Ladderworks web site on March 22, 2023.)
The views and opinions expressed herein are these of the interviewee and don’t essentially mirror these of Ladderworks LLC.
© 2023 Ladderworks LLC. Edited by Lindsey Brannon. Spiffy’s illustration by Shreyas Navare. For the Ladderworks digital curriculum to assist Ok-3 children advance the UN SDGs, go to Spiffy’s Launchpad: Artistic Entrepreneurship Workshops for Ok-3 Youngsters and their caregivers here.
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