Date/Time:

14/05/2025 - 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Event Categories:

• Building Culturally Responsive Schools
• Curriculum
• Leadership
• Professional Learning

Description:

Empower your advocacy for First Nations students: gain strategies, overcome challenges, and ensure cultural safety within your community.

Designed for: Principals, Primary Teachers, Secondary Teachers and RAP Leaders/First Nations Liaisons.

Your commitment: 10.5 contact hours plus any required reading.

AITSL Professional Standards for Teachers: Focus areas 1.3, 1.4, 2.4, 4.4 and 7.4.

Delivery mode: 3 x face-to-face workshops.

Presented by:
John Lochowiak, Kaurna Elder, Cultural Engagement Manager, SADB
Elaine (Munartu) Magias, Kaurna-Narungga, Aboriginal Cultural Consultant,
Jade Kartanya Brook, Adujaha Nurrunga, Kaurna, custodian with ties to Ngarrindjeri and Barkindji, Partnership Manager – SA, WA, and NT, Australians Together
Karen Schoff, Senior Educational Consultant, AISSA

Price: $290.00 per person (GST inclusive).

Key Dates: By registering for this series, you are committing to attend the following sessions:

14 May 2025, 9:00am-12:30pm
12 August 2025, 9:00am-12:30pm
23 October 2025, 9:00am-12:30pm

Location: AISSA, 128 Greenhill Road, Unley SA 5061.

Registration closes: 7 May 2025 at 5:00pm.

Program Overview: Join our three-part workshop series designed to help educators create culturally safe classrooms and schools.  

Experience learning first-hand from respected local Kaurna Elders and leaders who will share the Aboriginal worldview and support staff in reflecting on their own contexts regarding cultural safety. You will develop strategies and take away resources to navigate this journey, face challenges, and ask critical questions. 

Session 1: Uncle John Lochowiak – The Aboriginal World View
Session 2: Aunty Elaine Magias
Session 3: Jade Brook (from Australians Together)

The series supports you to empower your staff and students to gain perspectives to enhance practice for a greater impact in their school settings. 

Enquiries: please contact Alison Hollis.

Terms and Conditions: Registration for this series will incur the fee detailed above. This fee will be invoiced after the event and is payable unless written notice of cancellation is received seven or more days prior to the event.  See the AISSA’s Professional Learning Terms and Conditions for the full registration terms and conditions including the cancellation policy.