Caravana Saeb 2025 listens to educators to strengthen learning in Pará
Participants heard accounts of successful practices in schools in Benevides and Santa Bárbara do Pará, and shared experiences, challenges, and achievements in pedagogical management
Transforming education is a collective effort that begins with inspiring leadership prepared to make a difference. With this conviction, the State Department of Education (Seduc) continues, in the municipalities of Benevides and Santa Bárbara do Pará (in the Metropolitan Region of Belém), the "Caravana Saeb", an initiative that brings closer, listens to, and strengthens the managers of the Regional Education Directorates (DRE). The action, held this Wednesday (18), contributed to collaboratively building concrete strategies for improving student learning, with an emphasis on preparation for the Basic Education Assessment System (Saeb) 2025.
Throughout the day, participants dedicated themselves to understanding the educational indicators of their realities. Amid reflections and learnings, they heard inspiring accounts of successful practices in schools in the region and shared experiences, challenges, and achievements in the field of management and pedagogical strategies.
“Today we held the caravan in Benevides and Santa Bárbara, bringing together educational leaders from the two regions. It was a warm meeting, with very positive energy. We shared experiences, listened to our directors, and presented the strategies adopted throughout Pará to improve learning. We left with a sense of duty fulfilled, happy with the engagement, enthusiasm, and good practices presented. With the effort and dedication of all regional leaders, we continue firmly on the right path to strengthen our students' learning and advance even further in the Saeb of 2025,” said Júlio Meireles, Deputy Secretary of Basic Education at Seduc.
Performance - The program included the moment of "Live Panel: Sharing Good Practices", a space dedicated to listening, visibility, and recognition of the DRE managers responsible for practices aimed at preparing for the Basic Education Assessment System.
Participant Daniel Mesquita, director of the Abelardo Leão Conduru School in the Mosqueiro district (part of Belém), reported that, “in 2023, we started the Active Search Project, which brought our students back. We used the books from ‘Prepara Pará’ to improve performance and recover spaces to create a tutoring room, essential for developing students' skills. The school promotes activities throughout the year, aiming for integral development, always focusing on the goals, which are achieved through the joint work of the school and Seduc.”
During the Caravan, educational leaders shared experiences and highlighted the importance of uniting efforts in the final stretch of preparation for the assessment. “The Caravana Saeb is essential because it promotes the sharing of ideas, good practices, challenges, and solutions. We leave it more motivated, with renewed energy and willingness to face the next 70 days until the Saeb. This moment strengthens us in the pursuit of our main goal: to raise our score in the Ideb (Basic Education Development Index) nationally,” emphasized Raquel Costa, vice-pedagogical director of the State School Sérgio José Machado, in Santa Bárbara do Pará.
Impact - The Caravana Saeb 2025 has already visited 30 DREs, including Santa Izabel do Pará, Capanema, Bragança, Castanhal, Abaetetuba, Marabá, Parauapebas, Santarém, Monte Alegre, and Óbidos; the five DREs of Ananindeua; ten DREs of Belém, Capitão Poço, Mãe do Rio, and Cametá, in addition to Benevides and Santa Bárbara, which corresponds to 81.05% of the Pará territory. So far, the Caravan has served 1,528 educational leaders, including directors, technical teams from the DREs, directors, vice-pedagogical directors, and school secretaries.
“The initiative positively impacted the DRE Mãe do Rio, strengthening public education with formative and strategic actions. There was training of school leaders, encouragement of collaboration between schools, and setting goals to improve performance in Portuguese Language and Mathematics. The active listening of managers was valued, and the initiative renewed the commitment to the quality of education and the sense of belonging,” evaluated Eliane Cordeiro, Regional Education Director of Mãe do Rio.
