Espigão do Oeste/RO – The town differs from the others in its proximity to indigenous reservations of the etnias Suruis, Cinta Larga and Aporinã. Such close presence of the indigenous population brought one more responsibility in the maintenance of the reservations. A good example is in the indigenous education, which is conducted by the Seduc, through the Representation of Teaching of Espigão do Oeste, that now only counts with a pedagogic technical team to develop the indigenous education.

The team coordinated by the teacher Vera França Taurine accomplishes the whole pedagogic accompaniment of the indigenous schools of the reservation Cinta Larga. The actions of the team have as objective to render technical support during the planning, execution and evaluation of the classes supplied by the Indian teachers and non Indians that act inside the indigenous villages. The whole annual work is conducted with premature planning by the technical team that periodically visits the schools in the reservation in a field work, where follow all the progress of the students closely due to the activities proposed by the educators. The leaderships of the Cinta Larga native communities have been participating in that work developed by the teacher Vera França and her team, participating in the pedagogic meetings and discussing the priorities of the schools.

Today the indigenous education developed in the villages is of quality. A proof of that is the great frequency of students during the classes.