Rafael is PhD in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil (PUCRS) with a sandwich doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His dissertation was about the impact of Data Wise in the work of teachers. Rafael has always been passionate about education and fascinated about understanding why and how people learn. He started as a Math teacher assistant in a pre-college school and has graduated an Industrial Engineering, which was followed by his Master thesis about curriculum reform in Engineering Education. Rafael now works at Colégio Israelita, a K-12 school in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he is now administrative-pedagogical coordinator of High School, since 2019, leading the implementation of the new Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC). Rafael also works at Factum College, where since 2016 he has implemented Problem-Based Learning and Team-Based Learning in a curricular manner. Rafael is co-founder and director of Autonomia, an organization focused on developing student autonomy in learning, through the study habit, and teacher autonomy through study workshops. Within other accomplishments, Rafael has developed innovative projects and several teacher trainings workshops about active learning, data-driven decision-making, and project management for educators. In 2020 and 2021, Rafael has led professional online learning for 5 technical schools in partnership with the Chilean government and 20 public schools in Brazil, implementing Data Wise for the first time in these two countries. Overall, Rafael believes that any organizational culture can be changed when all people are heard and committed to the same cause: that every child and adult is capable of learning.