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Our History The Jesuit Education Network Common Educational Project Our Identity Integral Development Global Citizenship Innovation Places of Learning Active Teaching-Learning Methodologies Bilingual Education and Multiple Languages Student Empowerment and Leadership Infrastructure and Sports Social Commitment Staff / Editorial 3

OU R H ISTORY ColĂŠgio Loyola is a learning center which belongs to the Jesuit Education Network, a group of Basic Education Schools from the Society of Jesus in Brazil.

The Society of Jesus, a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church, founded

by Ignatius of Loyola, sees education as one of its mission. Through more than three thousand learning centers, including universities and popular education centers, they are engaged with the evangelical transformation of society and culture by offering Integral development to approximately three million people in six continents.

Located in Belo Horizonte since 1943, ColĂŠgio Loyola serves more than 2500 students.

From elementary to high school it also provides curricular activities through specialized classes in arts and sports as well as develop projects in partnership with the civil society.

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THE JESUIT EDUCATION NETWORK

The Jesuit Education Network (RJE) was incorporated in 2014 and today there are 17 learning centers, among schools, colleges and nurseries.

Through a Common Educational Project (PEC), it promotes an integrated work among the units which aims to foster men and women who are conscient, competent, compassionate, committed and creative.

The Jesuit Education Network is associated with the Latin-American Federation of Schools from the Society of Jesus (FLACSI) and joined with the global network of Jesuit Schools in 5 continents.

Learn more about the Jesuit Education Network.

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Visit the website using the QR Code.

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COMMON EDUCATIONAL PROJECT The Common Educational Project is the document which leads and inspires all the pedagogical practices in each unit of the Jesuit Education Network. Its main objective is to focus on the integral learning process and the human and academic excellence of its students.

It brings guidelines for the curriculum, organization, structure and resources, institutional environment and relationships with families and the community. Its main goal is to guarantee the offer of an education of excellence, inclusive and which responds to the challenges of life in the contemporary world as well as being responsible and careful with the environment preservation.

The Common Educational Project mainly focuses on the student and his/her development as a global citizen who needs to be a leader at work, academically competent, ethically responsible and committed to the construction of a more just, brotherly and supportive society.

Download the Common Educational Project, using the QR Code.

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Institutional identity Our Mission To promote excellence in education, inspired by the Christian and Ignatian As one of its units,

values, contributing to the development of citizens who are competent,

the Colégio Loyola

conscient, compassionate, creative and committed.

assumes the mission, the vision and the values

Our Vision

of the Rede Jesuíta

Become an innovative learning center which educates for global citizenship

de Educação and its

through collaborative and sustainable management.

learning centers.

Our Values • Love and Service

• Integral Development

• Social and environmental justice

• Collaboration and sustainability

• Discernment • Caring for people 10

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INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT In all the educational institutions of The Society of Jesus, the learning process happens in the perspective of the integral development of a person.

Moving within this horizon of meaning, Colégio Loyola is highly committed to the development of student’s main aspects such as the cognitive, psycho-affective and spiritual religious, enabling him/her to integrate society as a citizen of action.

The educational process is materialized together with the Academic Teams and The Christian Development Department by valuing the student’s active participation in his/ her own learning process, singularity, creativity, intelligence, socialization as well as his/ her transcending dimension.

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In order to materialize the proposal of student’s integral development, Colégio Loyola

Such connection is constantly assessed by means of technologies which

reinforces the growth of affectivity, liberty,

methodological quality, placement tests, process evaluations, preparatory

autonomy and spirituality. The school also

diversified activities.

emphasizes the continuous relationship between the academic processes and the students’

monitor the results of the learning process, bearing in mind the theoretical and courses for external exams such as ENEM and entrance tests project analysis and

The school understands that the individual´s formation is a process, so this is why Loyola is always careful with the whole human development along the student´s life at school.

development based in values.

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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP One of the most distinguishing marks from the mission of the Society of Jesus since its foundation was the decision of spreading itself around the world and

Challenged to guide students through

get into different cultures to be able

knowledge of such a different world

to promote the changes in our society.

and humanity, ColĂŠgio Loyola promotes

Working on the borders, no matter if

experiences which stimulate them to have

religious, political, economic, social or

contact and respect for different lifestyles,

wherever life is threatened, assumes a

cultures, social organizations, etc., which

commitment with people´s development

might happen in or out of the school. This

through a different view of the world and

way, global themes are part of the curriculum

a mobilizing attitude.

inspiring students to be proactive and collaborative in the creation of a more peaceful, tolerant and inclusive society.

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INNOVATION Digital technologies have been radically changing the way we live and, consequently they also change Education in the contemporary society. They reduce distances and promote connections in real time, which favor the cooperative and collaborative creation in the virtual environment as well as the fast dissemination of information. All the learning process suffer a radical impact.

Connected to all these changes, Loyola has been promoting a constant review and curricular update, working on the perspective of an extended curriculum. By means of a quality system, the school promotes continuous evaluation and the renewal of it processes and administrative / pedagogical practices.

The use of Active Teaching-Learning Methodologies is also part of the response ColĂŠgio Loyola gives to the challenges of educating children and teenagers in this context and to enable a more complete development which is also interactive and customized.

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PLACES OF LEARNING Education nowadays requires spaces adapted for students in movement, who learn in different ways and with different challenges. These spaces need to enable not only physical mobility but also intellectual and academic, because this is where students learn through their senses.

Nowadays, it is also essential to have a learning process which brings traces of real life, where students give a meaning to what they learn and keep themselves in movement either by interacting with the environment where they interfere or with the peers they are building knowledge with.

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Attentive to the students needs in this new millennium, a new space, called Pe. Kolvenbach is born. Modern, dynamic and interactive, this learning environment was projected to give students different opportunities to develop themselves and create new possibilities of interaction amoung students, teachers and the knowledge itself.

With approximately 1700 m2 distributed in two floors and arena, the structure is made by glass moving walls.

Totally automatized, it enables the configuration of up to 11 lab classrooms, with digital multimedia resources networked. The functional devices and furniture favor the use of Active Teaching-Learning Methodologies.

In this learning environment, students have access to tablets, notebooks and chrome books, and they can get connected to wi-fi in order to work on their researches. They can also interact physically by writing or making artistic interventions on the walls which function as a white board of a regular classroom.

The idea is that the conception of Espaรงo Pe. Kolvenbach spreads little by little around the school.

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ACTIVE TEACHING -LEARNING METHODOLOGIES

The changes in the classroom layout starts from the society and results in the way students build the knowledge.

Its main goal is to support the entrance of new ways of learning and teaching in the school context.

Blended learning, for example, is a type of Active TeachingLearning Methodology which aims to integrate technology with the classroom, and it has been used systematically in ColÊgio Loyola. It´s based on the union of distance learning and classroom teaching towards the customization of the teaching process. With this methodology, students have the chance to learn by interacting to one another through multiple resources and by experiencing hands-on activities to demonstrate in practice what they learn in theory.

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BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

The Bilingual Education is an initiative to update the way of teaching the English language aiming to develop in students the necessary competences for the 21st century.

The focus is to develop an amount of abilities and competences by teaching different scientific contents in other languages, besides the mother tongue, and enable students to go beyond fluency and proficiency.

In ColĂŠgio Loyola, the Bilingual Education Program is

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implemented from 1st to 5th grade. English is used as a

Besides the English Language, students in ColĂŠgio Loyola are exposed to experiences with multiple

language of instruction, integrating the learning of a second

languages such as Spanish, computational language, and the Brazilian Sign Language. This dynamic

language with other areas of knowledge.

procedure increases the possibilities of communication, knowledge and the participation of a person in society, which inserts the children and the teenager into another socio-cultural universe.

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STUDENT EMPOWERMENT AND LEADERSHIP Teachers, families, team members are all co-responsible for the educational process, participating in different ways and from different places of the school life. In a school that belongs to the Society of Jesus, the student is always the center of all the work done. The main focus of the proposed activities is to stimulate students to play an important role as the main subject of his own knowledge.

Assuming the student’s position, the curriculum is thought in a way to offer them different opportunities and moments of mediation to support them construct their knowledge. The school also organizes student’s participation as representatives, such as the Student Union, in order to stimulate the development of leaders who, inspired by the spiritual Ignatian light, understand that working for the others is one of his/her most important actions in life.

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INFRASTRUCTURE AND SPORTS

Colégio Loyola is built in an area of 21 thousand square meters, in Cidade Jardim neighborhood. This area includes laboratories, art rooms, music and dance rooms, a huge library, multi-uses and interaction spaces, a chapel, an theater, a minitheater, playful environments and recreational areas. The art galleries are located in this physical area and differently from all the other schools in Belo Horizonte, it is also present in the virtual environment as a space of aesthetic fruition and also construction and dissemination of arts and culture.

The sports center is attended by students in several different activities which presents the sport as a way to develop dynamism, integration, teamwork, health habits and ability to face challenges. The sport practice also brings the chance to keep contact with teams from other institutions and to participate in students championships.

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Colégio Loyola also has an external unit: Vila Fátima, in Pampulha neighborhood.

SOCIAL COMMITMENT Colégio Loyola is a philanthropic school and uses 20% of its operational income in Educational and Social Assistance Projects. The resources are invested in scholarships for students in Loyola and other Educational Units which belong to the Associação Nóbrega de Educação e Assistência Social – ANEAS. Taking care of the world and the future of the planet is one the universal preferences of the Society of Jesus and therefore it is constantly Loyola´s concern.

In partnership with two other units that belong to the Jesuit Educational Network in Minas Gerais – Escola Técnica de Eletrônica Francisco Moreira da Costa (ETE FMC), located in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, and Escola Jesuíta, in Juiz de

In this context, students, teachers, team members and families are in constant reflection about the environment, proposing solutions and getting engaged in several initiatives related to sustainability.

Fora, Loyola has the biggest project in photovoltaic energy ever created by a school, called Usina Solar Padre Furusawa.

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Staff/Editorial The Jesuit Education Network – Colégio Loyola General Principal: Juliano Oliveira Christian Formation Principal: Álvaro Negromonte SJ Academic Principal: Carlos Freitas Managing Principal: Marco Polo Araújo Communication Manager: Dayse Lacerda Production Supervisor: Paulo Batista Photos: Fabiano Aguiar Diagramming and Layout: Oriente Comunicação Production: Communication Management

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Learn more about ColĂŠgio Loyola at: www.loyola.g12.br 36