MAGOS for All

Improving school integration and success of migrant students through a language learning plataform.

MAGOS for All—the new version of the MAGOS platform—aims to reduce education inequality among the growing number of migrant students in elementary schools, through a new version of MAGOS - an innovative gamified platform with proven result- now adapted to learn the "school" language as a non-native Language

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Updated May 2026

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Class of Wonders

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2026

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Through MAGOS for All our primary hope is to transform public education into a truly inclusive, equitable, and supportive ecosystem for all students, regardless of their cultural or linguistic background. The project aims to drive systemic changes across three key areas: - Eliminating Academic Disparities: By providing specialized, self-paced learning paths tailored to different proficiency levels (A0 to B1), the innovation hopes to drastically reduce the language barriers that hinder academic performance. The ultimate goal is to eliminate the severe achievement gaps in reading and mathematics, preventing school dropout and ensuring migrant students have equal opportunities to succeed. - Fostering Classroom Integration: Instead of isolating non-native speakers, the innovation aims to reshape classroom dynamics by introducing a hybrid, collaborative framework. It envisions a peer-to-peer learning environment where native and non-native students work together, transforming linguistic diversity into a shared asset and fostering social cohesion from an early age. - Empowering the Educational Workforce: The platform seeks to alleviate the immense pressure on public school teachers who lack adequate resources to manage highly diverse classrooms. By providing automated progress tracking and ready-to-use pedagogical materials, it aims to give educators the tools they need to seamlessly ensure inclusive lessons.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

"MAGOS for All" was created to address a critical social problem in Portugal: educational inequality and the increased risk of school failure among a rapidly growing population of migrant students. Over the past five years, the number of immigrant students in Portuguese public schools has surged by 160%. Approximately one-third of these students do not speak Portuguese as their first language. This language barrier has severely widened academic performance gaps compared to their native peers, lagging behind by 32 points in mathematics and 22 points in reading. The innovation directly responds to an urgent, explicit need expressed by public school directors and teachers who struggle to integrate non-Portuguese-speaking students into their daily classrooms due to scarce, fragmented existing solutions.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

he innovation "MAGOS for All" was created to address a critical social problem in Portugal: educational inequality and the increased risk of school failure among a rapidly growing population of migrant students. Over the past five years, the number of immigrant students in Portuguese public schools has surged by 160%. Approximately one-third of these students do not speak Portuguese as their first language. This language barrier has severely widened academic performance gaps compared to their native peers, lagging behind by 32 points in mathematics and 22 points in reading.The innovation directly responds to an urgent, explicit need expressed by public school directors and teachers who struggle to integrate non-Portuguese-speaking students into their daily classrooms due to scarce, fragmented existing solutions. Developed by Class of Wonders as an evolutionary upgrade to its existing gamified literacy platform, "MAGOS for All" provides specialized pedagogical content tailored to Portuguese as a Non-Native Language

How has it been spreading?

Originally developed by Class of Wonders, the core MAGOS platform is already highly integrated into the Portuguese educational landscape, utilized by more than 20% of public schools schools nationwide. Building upon this foundation, the "Magos for All" project expands this footprint as a national multi-regional partnership funded through a Social Impact Bond. To drive localized expansion, the rollout leverages a strong network of pilot schools across Portugal's regions, with prioritized deployment targeting more vulnerable public schools. Its second implementation phase actively scales this footprint reaching +35.000 migrants students across the country. This project will be the starting point to then scale this new developed solution to other countries where MAGOS platform is already at use in public schools (such as Spain and Brazil), also facing migrant integration challenges.

How have you modified or added to your innovation?

The innovation has been enhanced through the following targeted updates and additions:
- Curricular Alignment & Specialized Content: A completely new version of the MAGOS platform has been developed to shift its core pedagogical focus toward Portuguese as a Non-Native Language ("PLNM") curricula. This adds over 100 hours of interactive pedagogical activities directly mapped to official proficiency levels (A0, A1, A2, and B1) for k-6 students.
- Artificial Intelligence Integration: The platform now utilizes human-supervised artificial intelligence (IA) to expand specialized curricular content and generate flexible, personalized learning pathways. This enables non-native students to work autonomously at their own speed to bridge language gaps.
- Inclusion & Teacher Support Tools: The platform has been upgraded with automated progress tracking and dedicated teacher support interfaces. These tools streamline classroom orchestration, ease teacher workloads, and encourage collaborative, peer-to-peer learning between migrant students and their native Portuguese classmates.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

For teachers and school directors in Portugal, Spain or Brazil

If you are part of a public school in Portugal, Spain or Brazil you can start using our freemium version. Register your class at:
https://magos.website/info/

For Public Policy Leaders

If you are a public policy leader or a representative for innovation in public education, please contact us at info@classofwonders.com or on LinkedIn to book a meeting with us.

Implementation steps

1. School register their classes

The school leaders registers the classes with migrant students and we provide teachers' onboarding training.

2. The teacher registers the class

The teacher registers the class, setting each student's starting point (it can be the expected level for the student's grade or lower if the student needs to recover previous skills).
The registration is easily done in the teacher's page in MAGOS.
When the registration is finished, the teacher can download the students' MAGOS access codes (see step 2).

3. The teacher gives each student their individual access code + the optional "Great Book of Magic"

After registering their class, the teacher only needs to download the students' individual access codes to the digital platform (see previous step 1) and share them with the students. If physical books were ordered, the teacher will receive them at the school address (one per student).

4. Students log in to the platform

Working in pairs and sharing a computer or tablet with an Internet connection, each student logs in to the platform using the unique access code provided by their teacher (which acts as a password).

5. Students play and learn in weekly classes

Sharing a computer or tablet (with Internet connection and shared screen function) with other students, each student in the class complete reading, writing, grammar, and listening gamified exercises, also collaborating with other students in the class through a peer learning feature.
The learning sequence presented to each student is responsive to the student's initial skill level and pace of progress throughout the school year.

6. The teacher monitors the students' progress

On the teacher page in the MAGOS platform, the teacher can access individual student performance data in real time.

7. The school receives regular report

The school receives a report on the use and results of MAGOS for the participating classes