Seduc enhances the reach of the Alfabetiza Pará Program with a workshop for building a communication plan

The Alfabetiza Pará Program is one of the most important initiatives of the Government of Pará, through the State Department of Education (Seduc), being a strategy to ensure that by the 2nd year of elementary school all students can read and write. The program is developed in collaboration with the municipalities of Pará and assists in the development of students during the literacy period. In light of this, through the Deputy Secretary of Collaboration Regime (Sarc), Seduc promotes, in partnership with the Bem Comum Association, a workshop for building the communication plan for engaging the integration regions to the program, on May 12 and 13.

"This workshop was created to engage the municipalities in collaboration for one of Seduc's main programs, which is Alfabetiza Pará. We understand that our institutional actions are linked to city halls, municipal secretaries, directors, and teachers. This formative part is already happening, but we also need to engage families and the community. So the workshop aims to create a communication plan - because informing is very different from communicating - to create a strategy," explained the Deputy Secretary of Collaboration Regime (Sarc), Diego Maia.

The Deputy Secretary also highlighted the importance of the program's actions. "The workshop is part of the program, it is an axis of the program, to be even more effective this year, so that we have great results in the literacy of our children in the state of Pará. It is no use taking care of high school, taking care of the final years, the initial years, if we do not stop everything and ensure that children are literate. We have improved a lot in reading fluency, but our main challenge is still that our children have full comprehension of the texts they read," said Diego.

According to the coordinator of Alfabetiza Pará, Carla Reis, the training is essential for those involved to understand their roles and responsibilities. "The idea of the mobilization workshop is precisely to stop and rethink what message is reaching all areas of the Alfabetiza Pará program, which is a state literacy policy and in collaboration with the municipalities. It is necessary for all parties involved to understand the main axes of the program and for this message to reach effectively, successfully in the municipalities. It is necessary for everyone to understand their roles and also, of course, that of the Federal Government, since the National Commitment to Literacy for Children was launched, in which all parties agreed on literacy goals. So the workshop is a moment to pause the actions, look at what has already been accomplished since 2023, from the establishment of the law, and think about new actions on how the program reaches the end, to the teachers, even to the community, to the students," she said.

For Sandra Helena Lima, Secretary of Education of the municipality of Moju, in the Tocantins Integration Region, and current president of the National Union of Municipal Education Directors of Pará (Undime), the workshop is very relevant and what is being built will directly impact students and teachers. "The workshop is extremely relevant because it brings together all the entities that will contribute so that we can be in this articulation within the State of Pará. Everything we are seeing here can and will impact at the end because here we are organizing, planning together as a unique set of these actions that will be developed in the State of Pará. So we leave here with a planning of these actions and this will certainly impact at the end, where our students and our teachers are, whether they are from the state or municipal network," she reflected.

Alfabetiza Pará - Seduc launched, in January 2023, the "Alfabetiza Pará" Program which, in collaboration, assists the municipalities of Pará in the development of students during the literacy period. As part of the actions, the Program has already evaluated reading and writing fluency in municipalities that have already joined the initiative, and continuously distributes teaching materials to municipal networks.

In 2024, Pará more than doubled the number of reading children. In the first census evaluation of literacy, presented by the Federal Government in May of last year, the Ministry of Education (MEC) presented the significant advances that Pará achieved in Basic Education. In less than six months, the State met the literacy goal set for 2024, which was 37%, and went beyond, reaching 48%.

With this growth, Pará ranked among the six States that most positively evolved literacy rates compared to 2019, the period before the covid-19 pandemic. For this work, the Program won gold in the "National Seal Commitment to Literacy" from MEC.