Colombia is the world's largest recipient of Venezuelan migrants. By mid-2024, Bogotá alone hosted over 589,000 Venezuelans, more than 65,000 of them enrolled in public schools. The city's classrooms absorbed this population without the tools to make it work: 12.4% of migrant families reported their children had experienced discrimination at school, overwhelmingly from peers (DANE, 2023), while Bogotá's school coexistence system logged over 26,000 violence alerts in 2023 alone.
The problem wasn't just prejudice. Teachers had no practical resources to open conversations about difference, manage intergroup conflict, or build the empathy and perspective-taking skills that make diverse classrooms actually cohesive, not just diverse on paper.
Schools for Everyone was built to close that gap. Working with the IDB and Bogotá's Secretary of Education, we designed a narrative-based toolkit for grade-5 teachers in the city's most migration-impacted districts—Bosa, Kennedy, and Suba. It turns everyday classroom situations of exclusion or prejudice into structured opportunities for dialogue, learning, and belonging.
Schools for Everyone is built on La Aldea (The Village), a narrative universe where animal characters from Colombian ecosystems face the same dilemmas children do: prejudice, peer pressure, conflict, belonging. Each grade-5 classroom receives a Teacher's Guide and a Student Kit built around 10 illustrated fables, covering themes from stereotyping and emotional regulation to conflict resolution and valuing diversity.
Each fable comes with 5 dialogic questions, 4 hands-on challenges (40 total), a classroom game, and audiovisual resources—songs, videos, audiobooks, and movement activities. Teachers are trained through introductory webinars, receive in-person pedagogical visits, and have access to a WhatsApp chatbot for real-time support.
The program is co-designed with the IDB and Bogotá's Secretary of Education, with funding from the Government of Canada, and is fully embedded in the national curriculum, no extra hours required.
Impact is measured through a randomized controlled trial across 114 public schools. Preliminary results show the program increased children's compassion for others, raised the likelihood that students want to include Venezuelan peers, reduced reported peer discrimination against migrants, and strengthened classroom cohesion norms, with children reporting their classrooms as more united, protective, and values-aligned.
Schools for Everyone grows from La Aldea, a multiplatform learning strategy created by Click+Clack in 2020 that has reached over 200,000 children across Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela—through partnerships with UNICEF, the IRC, the Lego Foundation, and more than ten Secretariats of Education. In 2021, La Aldea was recognized by HundrED, the IDB and JPMorgan as one of the 15 most scalable education innovations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In 2024, we partnered with the IDB and Bogotá's Secretary of Education, with funding from the Government of Canada, to develop Schools for Everyone as a precision adaptation for social cohesion in migration-impacted classrooms.
In the last two years: 10 narrative modules were co-created with SED Bogotá; +600 teachers were trained across 60 public schools; over 20,000 grade-5 students were reached in Bosa, Kennedy and Suba; a randomized controlled trial was completed across 114 schools; and a 2026 continuation contract was signed with the IDB.
Looking ahead, our goals are to scale within Bogotá across grades and districts, expand to other Colombian cities with high migration flows like Cúcuta, Cartagena, and Barranquilla, adapt the model for Central America and the Southern Cone, and publish the full impact evaluation alongside an open-access core toolkit.
Contact Click+Clack at juanjose@click-clack.la to get started. We recommend 1–2 weekly hours over a semester, supported by the Teacher's Guide, WhatsApp chatbot and an introductory webinar.
All materials will be openly available under a Creative Commons license through the IDB. Visit https://aulasinclusivas.reach360.com/ for teachers training, and www.laaldea.co for supporting resources.
