Stance Dual School

Founded in 1990, Stance Dual is a bilingual school that has already graduated hundreds of critical and creative youths who have studied here from preschool until the end of middle school. Within a warm, welcoming environment surrounded by an ample green space, which is a unique urban oasis, our educational project promotes the social, emotional and intellectual growth of our students, fully preparing them for their next steps of their development.

The phrase that sums up the Stance Dual brand of multilingual education is: Local Roots, Global Wings. We want that our students have a broad understanding of Brazilian history and culture, through the Portuguese language, constructing their identities and valuing the richness around them. At the same time, we also want them to broaden their horizons by learning concepts from many different subjects in the English language, in an integrated, multilingual educational project.

Beyond striving for academic excellence in all curricular disciplines, taught in Portuguese and English, our program includes developing students technologically (maker projects, entrepreneurism, games, etc.), artistically (visual arts, music, theater, etc.) and ethically (dialogue forums, social projects, etc.). We also place a high value on promoting our students’ health and well-being (physical education, swimming, healthy lunch, etc.). Independent of the subject, all of our pedagogic studies start off with contextualized, real life situations, which demand strategic knowledge for problem solving.

Our educational approach departs from the principle of the social construction of knowledge, in which the interaction between students with cultural and historical knowledge is fundamental, as well as the possibility of critically positioning themselves towards it. In this process, various perspectives and points of view are discussed, always taking into consideration students’ realities. Beyond this, at Stance, the moral and ethical dimensions of the curricular contents are brought to light in order to work with social-emotional questions and human relationships based on a value of cultural plurality.