STAR

Supporting Teachers as Researchers

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Navigate in the research developed by our Lower School educators and support by our special consultants Damian Bebell, Kathleen Ferenz, Holly Ludgate, and Alan Amtzis

Researches | 2023

Alfabetização em Contexto Bilíngue – The implication of different approaches in bilingual non-native students

How efficient are different approaches regarding phonemic awareness when teaching bilingual students to read and write?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

Bridging Ages, Building Bonds: Unveiling the Transformative Power of Belonging through Middle School-Early Years Service Learning

How does Middle school learners' perception of belonging in their Service Learning opportunities (in partnership with Early Years) affect their engagement in Escola Concept?

Early Years High School Middle School São Paulo

Bringing the lessons learned in the Virtual Learning Environment to campus

What elements from the Virtual Learning class structure should be kept back to campus? - How should classes be organized? - How long should each step last?

Middle School São Paulo

Clay exploration

How does the constant interaction with the same material brings opportunities for the development of different languages?

Early Years Ribeirão Preto

Conflict resolution and its implications on the school routine

What are the most efficient ways to deal with conflict resolution in second grade?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

Designing Collaboration: Unveiling the Impact of Weekly Design Meetings on Homeroom Educators’ Project Planning

In what ways do the weekly design meetings with the project designers support homeroom educators in planning their projects?

Early Years Lower School São Paulo

Development of Moral Autonomy

What are the observable impacts of problem situations analyses and discussions in the development of learners' moral autonomy?

Lower School São Paulo

Diggin´ the reading – using VTRs to deepen understanding.

Do understanding maps help students deepen their productions in readers workshop?

Lower School Middle School Ribeirão Preto

Engagement in the Virtual Village

By analysing the dynamics of interaction during Escola Concept 's Grade 2 & 3 Virtual Village, can we identify what were the points of greatest student involvement?

Lower School São Paulo

Engaging learners in speaking English: Are you ready?

What kind of proposals/activities engage learners in speaking English?

Lower School São Paulo

Exploring Natural and Reflective Foreign Language Writing Engagement in 5-Year-Old Learners

Is it possible to engage 5-year-old learners in writing in a foreign language naturally and reflectively?

Early Years São Paulo

Feedback on Math activities

How do students deal with different experiences of feedback on math activities?

Middle School Ribeirão Preto

Finding meaningful and fun learning with technology through the authorial and creative approach.

What resources and ideas can we use so the learner's relationship with technology becomes not only meaningful with learning but also fun?

Lower School São Paulo

Fostering Assertiveness in Pre-teens

How can guidance counselors better support the development of social skills among Grade 6 students?

Middle School Salvador

Fostering children’s creativity

How can we foster children's creativity during play?

Early Years Ribeirão Preto

Fostering student engagement and remote learning in Art class during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How can I engage MS students in Art lessons taking into account the online learning environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?

Middle School São Paulo

Geography within Social Studies

How can the major social sciences (Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Politics, Psychology and Sociology) be approached in depth in Social studies classes, valuing the humanities and its individualities in our context?

Middle School São Paulo

Guidance impact on quality research.

How do educators' guidance impact the quality of learners' research?

Middle School São Paulo

How can the environment stimulate my personal development and how does it encourage me to interact with others?

Why is the environment important for children's learning? How can we make the environment attractive and stimulating for students?

Early Years Ribeirão Preto

How can we improve communication with the families of Escola Concept (Salvador/BA)?

How can we improve communication with the families of Escola Concept (Salvador/BA)?

Early Years High School Lower School Middle School Salvador

How can young learners acquire the taste for reading? Join us on this journey as we discover the factors that support the reading for pleasure.

What are some of the actions that the school institution can take to promote reading for pleasure for learners in the first years of lower school?

Lower School São Paulo

How does Body & Movement help in development of social skills in Middle School Learners?

How do we foster social ability skills using self assessments in the Body & Movement context?

Middle School Ribeirão Preto Salvador São Paulo

How does heuristic play impact Toddlers’ learning?

What might be the role of heuristic play in supporting cognitive development?

Early Years Salvador

How does the Reggio Emilia approach impact student learning ?

How to respect and encourage students´conceptions of literacy through their spontaneous writing in the classroom?

Early Years Salvador

How were the interactions with myself, the others, and the surroundings established upon the return to campus?

What changed in the way I can interact with my surroundings? How can I safely engage with my peers within this new scenario? How do Pre-K3 children play?

Early Years São Paulo

Impacts of the 360 degree assessment in grade 8 students’ willingness to strive for accuracy while working in a group.

How does making a 360 degree assessment (Teacher's-Assessment, Self-Assessment, Peers-Assessment from 3 other learners from the same group) impact on learners' effort to strive for accuracy during a project in Grade 8?

Middle School São Paulo

Improving Math Skills

How can Math centers help 2nd grade learners develop their math skills?

Lower School Salvador

Improving pronunciation and fluency in a second language

How can we increase pronunciation and fluency in a second language?

Lower School Salvador

Investigating natural and non-structured materials as creative resources in the Arts room.

How do I keep wonderment alive in lower school Art lessons?

Lower School São Paulo

Investigating the influence of the environment on the development of independence and creative making in Pre-k 3 students in distance learning
Investigando a influência do ambiente no desenvolvimento da independência e do fazer criativo nos estudantes do Pre-k 3 no ensino à distância

How does the environment promote independence and creative making in the students, while distance learning? Como o ambiente propicia a independência e o fazer criativo no processo de aprendizagem dos estudantes à distância?

Early Years Salvador

Language fluency as a tool to open students’ learning horizons

How language can be used by students as a tool to approach to the learning object?

Lower School Middle School Ribeirão Preto

Motivational Elements for Writing

What are some of the most effective motivational elements in the writing moments that positively influence the development and improvement of learners´ writing skills in the early stages of lower school?

Lower School São Paulo

Onbording new educators: a study on best practices to foster school culture

What is the impact of different Professional Learning opportunities on the onboarding process of new educators in an innovative school such as Escola Concept?

Lower School São Paulo

One material, three environments and various possibilities

How do different environments influence in playing?

Early Years São Paulo

One school, three campuses: how can the teaching and learning coaches’ mentorship and alignment positively impact the school’s culture?

How can the teaching and learning coaches' mentorship and alignment positively impact the school's culture?

Early Years High School Lower School Middle School Ribeirão Preto Salvador São Paulo

Our library’s most popular resources in 2020

What library resources are popular with which classes? How can we use that information?

Ribeirão Preto

Positively Impacting Perception

Are 5th graders from Escola Concept Ribeirão Preto able to perceive, through their Individual Projects, the way they can positively impact their community?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

Relationship between differentiation strategies and academic perfomance in high school

What is the impact of differentiation strategies on the academic performance of high school learners

High School São Paulo

Remedial work and the incentive problem – An attempt to reach underachieving students

How to use Khan Academy as a tool for remedial work for students on vacation? - Remedial Work - Definition: An activity or set of activities designed to help underachieving students learn what they could not during the regular school period and provide them with a chance to increase their scores in that quarter. Here in Brazil this is known as 'Recuperação'.

High School Middle School Ribeirão Preto

Scholastic as an ELL tool for writing development

Is there any correlation between the use of reading platforms such as Scholastic and the improvement of students' writing skills?

Lower School Salvador

Self-reflection form

What are the actions that most lead students to fill out the reflection form?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

Shedding Light on Learning: The role of documentation in clarifying Early Years Education Processes.

How can the documentation process bring clarity to learning in Early Years?

Early Years Ribeirão Preto

Smile and learn :)

How does humor support the development of persistence on a daily basis?

Lower School São Paulo

Solving problems with Critical Thinking Skills

Which critical thinking skills are MS students using to solve problems?

Middle School Ribeirão Preto

Successful Writers with Habits of Mind

What is the impact of Habits of Mind training on Grade 2 (SP/SSA) and Grade 3 (SSA) students' self esteem in their production on Writers Workshop in Portuguese?

Lower School Salvador São Paulo

Teaching considering transferences in a bilingual context

What transferences do learners make from L1 to L2 in the literacy process?

Lower School São Paulo

The “Third Educator” and creating inspired learning spaces.

How can the intentionality behind the organization of spaces be visible to children?

Early Years São Paulo

The Environment as the Third Educator: What is the Importance of Seating Arrangements in a Learning Space?

How does the seating arrangement influence learners' interactions and relationships?

Early Years São Paulo

The expectations regarding “Meaningful Learning” in our community.

What are the differences in expectation regarding "Meaningful Learning" in our Grade 6 community from Concept RAO?

Middle School Ribeirão Preto

The impact of drawings on writing.

What is the impact of students’ drawings on the imaginative process of writing a narrative?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

The importance of our virtual village for the social-emotional reception of learners during social isolation

How important was the Guidance Counselor support to the learners during the pandemic?

Lower School Middle School Ribeirão Preto Salvador São Paulo

The new normal: How can children bond in a period full of social restrictions?

How did the social distancing period affected children's relationships when back to in person learning?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

The perception of vocabulary knowledge in writing

To what extent does the Grade 6 student's perceived range of vocabulary skills relate to their outcome in writing activities in English?

Middle School Salvador São Paulo

The relevance of clear guidance on autonomous work.

To what extent the digital portfolio implementation has impacted the completion of daily tasks autonomously, during remote learning for second grade students?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

Thinking maps for promoting spatial skills in Geometry through remote learning.

What is the impact of thinking maps for promoting spatial skills in geometry with 5th grade students?

Lower School Ribeirão Preto

Through the lenses of Project-based learning: a zoom-in into kinder D and Grade 4 A worlds

How might PBL (Project-based Learning) support increase the sense of belonging and motivation in learning experiences?

Lower School São Paulo

Time Management and the use of Toddle as a platform to inform assessment

How can Lower School educators improve time management in order to accomplish assessments related to Toddle efficiently?

Lower School São Paulo

UFLI Foundations

What are the visible spelling and writing improvements observed in the lower school division within the first semester after implementing the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) Foundations and materials?

Lower School São Paulo

Understanding Educator Perceptions: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Maker Space Integration

How do educators perceive and experience the integration of Maker Spaces into their teaching practices?

Early Years High School Lower School Middle School São Paulo

Unraveling the JOY of reading

Which written proposals have proven most effective in inspiring reading engagement in G5 learners?

Lower School São Paulo

What does the contact with different materialities tell us about the child’s research path?

What does the contact with different materialities tell us about the child's research path?

Early Years São Paulo

What is the impact of developing personal vs group projects on the 4th and 7th graders’ enthusiasm?

What is the impact of developing personal vs group projects on the 4th and 7th graders’ enthusiasm?

Lower School Middle School Ribeirão Preto Salvador

Why proofreading?

What is the impact of proofreading on Grade 5 students writing scores?

Lower School São Paulo

Why using digital tools can really impact learners’ academic abilities? Check out our learning journey using the Prodigy app with Grade 4 learners!

How does using the Prodigy app game impact 4C learners' development of division math skills over 8 weeks?

Lower School São Paulo

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