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Ana Luiza Raggio Colagrossi

Founder and Director, Espaço Àra Educação; Co-Creator and Child Development, Família+
Academia & Education
Brazil

About Ana

Ana Luiza Colagrossi’s work centres on early childhood development, education, and caregiver wellbeing. She has partnered with the Van Leer Foundation to support the implementation of state-level initiatives focused on child development and caregiver wellbeing in Brazil. She is the co-creator of Família+, a multilevel parental engagement strategy grounded in behavioral science, designed to integrate wellbeing and psychosocial support for parents and caregivers. Dr Colagrossi is a researcher and implementation partner in international projects on psychosocial support and social and emotional learning, including initiatives led by Harvard University’s EASEL Lab. She is a Professor of Psychopedagogy, and a researcher at the Universities of São Paulo and Pernambuco.

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Centring caregivers in early childhood education

Rethinking family engagement through relational practices in Brazil’s daycare systems

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Família+ Co-Creating Family and Caregiver Engagement in a Digital Society

By Ana Luiza Raggio Colagrossi and Barbara Barros Barbosa

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