Brazil has 1.7 million public school teachers. Most of them start their careers underprepared, walk into classrooms of students with multiple learning profiles, and are left to figure it out alone.

In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Ana Ligia Scachetti, Executive Director of Nova Escola, makes the case for what it will take to change that. Under her leadership, Nova Escola has grown from a printed magazine into a digital platform reaching one million teachers every month across Brazil. Their AI assistant built on WhatsApp has now reached 200,000 educators, including teachers in the most remote corners of the Amazon.

Ana reveals why teacher support in Brazil has failed for decades, how one state produced 70% of the country's best schools, and why the most powerful thing a school leader can do is simply believe their students can run the world.