22.04.2021

Elementary School Coordinator participates in a Live on Corporate Management

By Bruna Cronfli 

Bruna Melo, Elementary School coordinator, participated in a virtual meeting with Soraia Campos, project manager of Convivere Mais – responsible for advising and forming the Beacon Ethics Program. The theme of the Live was “Cooperative Management: Democratic Practices that Potentialize the Transformation of School Culture.” 

In the last year, given the impacts and changes in our lifestyle and the work brought about by the pandemic, hosting and welcoming are becoming more and more present and necessary dynamics in our relationships. The people management look at this moment needed to consider the emotional well-being of the school community and minimize the negative impacts of interrupting presential classes. 

Bruna began her speech by arguing about how at Beacon we have been studying and reflecting, searching for a moral autonomy of students. Still, she remembered that these precepts must also apply to the team. The program that we have adopted in Early Childhood Education and Primary Series, PYP (Primary Year Program), places the student as the protagonist of learning and fosters investigation, research, and focus on concepts and not on facts. Therefore, in our school, the search for autonomy has excellent strength. 

As in the administrative areas of the school, we believe that a good manager trusts, gives space, gives voice, and does not want his team to depend on him. Collaborative management starts with a paradigm break, a new mindset. Historically, management models have been centralizing, but today we are looking for a working model that values exchange, support; not the power, the control, the hierarchy. In collaborative management, democracy prevails, in which relationships are built and based on trust and partnership. 

Researchers and scholars have pointed outcollaborative  as essential to achieving the new purposes of education, mainly because the work at school is focused on the human being. However, we know that this is not a simple task. Provided by the Federal Constitution and the LDB, democratic management or cooperative management must be developed in all education systems and public schools throughout the country. Recognizing the principle of democracy and cooperation in management activities is one of the dimensions that contribute to the transformation of the school’s culture, strengthens the sense of community, belonging and contributes to the development of the children and adolescents who study at the institution. 

The meeting reaffirmed the responsibility to make the school a safe place and the role of listening and dialogue as a condition for the entire educational community to have a respected and considered place of speech.