Sónia Moreira holds a PhD in Education and Human Development from the University of Santiago de Compostela, USC, Spain, a degree in Education Sciences from FPCEUP, Porto, and a bachelor's degree in Primary Education (1st Cycle) from ISEC, Lisbon. She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, in the area of Pedagogical Supervision. She is the coordinator of the Master's degree in Pre-school Education and Primary Education and is a member of the Course Committee for the Master's degree in Primary Education and Portuguese and History and Geography of Portugal in Secondary Education. She is currently pursuing a postdoctoral degree in Education Sciences, specialising in Pedagogical and Didactic Practice and Research, at UTAD. She has been a teacher at the Escultor António Fernandes de Sá School Group (Vila Nova de Gaia) since 2006 and has taught in primary education (1st Cycle) since 1995. She has been a mobility teacher since 2018 until 31 March 2024, occupying the position of advisor/pedagogical representative of the Gaia Nascente Training and School Association Centre in the field of Curricular Autonomy and Flexibility. She was Coordinator of the 1st Cycle Department from 2016 to 2018 and served as Coordinator of Educational Establishments between 2004 and 2016. She is a teacher trainer with registration code CCPFC/RFO- 19207/05 in different areas and fields, with a particular interest in Pedagogical Practice and Research, General Didactics and the 1st Cycle. She has been a mentor and National Coordinator of COOPERA - Pedagogical Intervention and Innovation Project since October 2016; an integrated project of the School +21I23 Learning Recovery Plan, which continues in the School+ 23I24 Plan, as stipulated in Council of Ministers Resolution No. 9/2021 of 7 July (RCM). It is supported by the roadmap ‘Recovering through Cooperative Learning’, integrated into specific action 1.3.7. ‘Recovering through inclusion’, from domain 1.3. + ‘Educational Resources’, from Axis 1. ‘Teaching and Learning’, from the 21/23 School+ Plan. She has been President of PACL - Portuguese Association for Cooperative Learning since 13 September 2021. She carries out her scientific work as a researcher at Insight - Piaget Research Centre for Ecological Human Development, a collaborating researcher at InED (Centre for Research and Innovation in Education, ESE, Polytechnic Institute of Porto) and LE@D (Distance Education and E-Learning Laboratory, Open University), and is co-supervisor of several master's theses. She was coordinator of the postgraduate course in Pedagogical Supervision and Evaluation in Education at the Piaget Institute. She was awarded 1st place in the Global Teacher Prize Portugal 2020 (3rd edition), an award internationally considered as the ‘Nobel Prize for education’. She was among the TOP 50 of the 2021 Global Teacher Prize, representing Portugal among 12,000 participants. She has been a member of Global Teachers Ambassadors since 2021. Her current interests focus on initial and continuing teacher training, and on promoting, coordinating, supporting and monitoring pedagogical and educational innovation projects based on methodologies that promote active learning using educational technologies.