This work seeks to describe, using bibliographical and documentary research procedures and its own memorialistic testimony, the process of formulating and implementing the Educational Development Programme (PDE), an unprecedented format for continuing teacher training in Parana, and also in the country. The focus of the report is on the period from 2006 to 2007, when the programme was implemented, designed and implemented as an educational policy and consolidated as a state public policy through Complementary Law 130/2010. To implement the programme, the Parana State Department of Education established a partnership with the State Department of Science, Technology and Higher Education (SETI) and the public higher education institutions in the state of Parana.