educational space for knowledge where the pleasure and joy of learning are always present. All this effort is carried through keeping in mind the institution’s leading role and participation in the fostering of a society in which human rights are possible may find a safe haven.

- THE EVOLUTION

After the actual, effective performance phase and the overcoming of the natural, previewed difficulties typical of the beginning of activities, The Augusto Laranja School in a few years of existence became an educational reference center in the city of São Paulo, and started being sought after by other teaching institutions and the specialized press to spread its pedagogical proposal and educational and philosophical principles.

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- THE PRESENT STRUCTURE

As it enters modernity facing the future, The Augusto Laranja School attentively looks at the new changes and the arising of new technologies.
During these years of existence bringing together tradition and experience, the school, based on its institutional dynamism, continues to develop a work of acknowledged quality by updating its pedagogic proposal continuously.
In this end of the millennium, a quality education must guarantee the essential learning and effective citizenship practices. Thus, The Augusto Laranja School, as a member of UNESCO’s Associated Schools Program considers in its proposal the principles leading to the 21st Century education — learning to know, learning to do, learning to live and learning to be — recommended by UNESCO.

Presently, Augusto Laranja operates in two school units with about 1,600 students. It has rooms fit for learning efficiency, such as:

classrooms and rooms for the various services
ambient-rooms for music, arts and cooking
sports courts
laboratories for Information Technology, Sciences, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
There are also supporting structures, such as:
school administrative buildings
audiovisual department
print shop department
surveillance system
janitorial system

The Augusto Laranja School develops its work operation with about three hundred employees and believes the human resources to be its most precious resource. That is why it promotes and values its employees’ qualification by providing them with continuing education through courses, congresses, workshops, etc, nationally and abroad.

- THE MISSION

To offer the community a high-level educational institution aiming at the students’ formation, fulfilling their desires and needs. This is a permanent goal of The Augusto Laranja School.

Our mission is educating: to provide the development of skills needed for the full development of the students. We aim at motivating them to foster the capacity and interest to learn; to seek information and transform them into knowledge, life and wisdom; to live by universal values such as solidarity, freedom, autonomy and critical spirit based on ethics, citizenship and environment awareness practices.

CURRICULAR ORGANIZATION

In preparing the curriculum we take into consideration the demands of a world of complex, diversified relationships, and we intend:

to enable the students to acquire science and technology knowledge, and to develop skills to operate them;
to provide a set of experiences that assure the students their comprehension of reality and the basic fundamentals to operate and act on it.
In this sense, the pedagogical intervention leads to the interdisciplinary work, which makes knowledge more integrated, enabling the resolution of problems through various manners and the viewing of a theme under various aspects, acting closer to the real world.

This interdisciplinary form is expressed in the projects that lead the student to the real learning. Challenged by motivating issues, the student searches a way out concretely and gets information, elaborates hypothesis, records data, makes calculations, learns how to express himself, relates his knowledge among various areas, and ultimately applies what he learns into his reality.

For further pedagogical and administrative information, please send us an e-mail. colegio@augustolaranja.com.br