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NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Making it real: Working with Aboriginal Communities to achieve outcomes through partnership
Low SES Forum Tuesday 22 June 2010
Louise Bye, Assistant Director, Aboriginal Education and Training Directorate
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Why? Policy
What? Strategy
How ? Community
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
CAEPR 2007
• Complexity and diversity of Aboriginal communities.• Relationships between school and community is
influenced by “settings” in which both operate and that adaptations are required.
• School processes may have little relevance or be inconsistent with community processes.
• A new form of relationship needs to develop between the school and the community if an enduring educational partnership is to be achieved.
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Catalysts for positive change
LeadersThinkersConnectorsDoersProblems solvers EmpowerersPeople who want to make a difference
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Community engagement Engagement: school to family and community; teacher to parent/caregiver/extended family; AEO to parents and community, ACLO to parents and community
Complexity and diversity
Informal and formal
Social and learning
School business and community business
Deliberate and planned
Conversations Relationships Partnerships
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Strategies to lead, engage and keep people engaged
Who are the partners? Parents, teachers, community members, executive, principal, Aboriginal staff, regional staff, wider community, Aboriginal organisations, agencies, regional office, state office.
How to engage?Focus on end pointIndividually and collectivelyClear communication and consistent messageFocus on what works
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Engaging community • Understanding the past and present Aboriginal community.• Knowing who is in your Aboriginal community• Knowing how people are connected- parents and caregivers, extended family,
kinship relationships• Welcome to/Acknowledgement of Country, welcome signs in local Aboriginal
Language, Aboriginal flag • Working with school and district Aboriginal staff.• Community assets mapping process• How does the community respond to things? • What is the community’s vision?• What do they want from a partnership?• What forms of communication work best?• Working with community governance and community peak bodies, interagency.• Taking the school to the community.• Staff/community interaction. School/community projects.• Champion for the school
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Engaging parents• Welcoming all parents, extended family, Elders and community
members• Personal communication, relationship, invitation• Working with school and district Aboriginal staff• Front office• Knowing and working with whole family• Acknowledging and celebrating community events within the school• Creating opportunities for parents to share knowledge, skills and
understandings in and out of the classroom • Celebrate and communicate student success and achievement to
parents• If there is a problem, consult and act• Work with parents to find solutions
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Engagement through students• Sense of belonging • Who are your Aboriginal students• What are their gifts, talents, dreams, aspirations• Respect, knowledge and understanding of Aboriginality• Personalised Learning Plans (PLPs)• Positive talk about real improvements • Recognition of circumstances and situations • Opportunities for leadership, gifted and talented• Early intervention and support • What is the data telling us?
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Your turn, your task •Two strategies that you already do that work•Two new strategies•One off the wall, low cost strategy
Engaging community
Engaging parents
Engagement through students
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Your turn, your task •Two strategies that you already do that work•Two new strategies•One off the wall, low cost strategy
Engaging teachers
Engaging non-Aboriginal community
Engaging agencies, organisations , business and otherpartners
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Communication to build trust
LanguageBody language
Experiences and attitudesPower
StereotypesRoles and responsibilities
ExpectationsSituations
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Mortar
Sand
Cement
Water
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
You are the guide, not the expert. Focus on the end point, the vision for parents, community, teachers and students. Focus on what works.Engage students in the process. It’s about them.There will be resistance, racism and recidivism.This is a new way of working and peoples’ expectations will need to be managed.Communicate to all groups consistently and coherently.It’s about addressing and changing the status quo, digging up the hard ground and having the hard conversations.The process and the outcomes will be flawed if Aboriginal people are not included, respected and valued as equal partners.We will work with evidence but some of this evidence will be peoples’ experiences.We need to work with data. Don’t tell me what you have done, tell me what you have achieved.
NSW Department of Education & Training
Aboriginal Education and Training Policy www.det.nsw.edu.au
Lastly….Communicate and share with others
Take on board advice and criticism
Support each other
Plan for and celebrate success
Challenge the status quo
Believe in the vision and what you are trying to achieve