Education, Action, Change: Embedding Anti-Racism in Practice

Education, Action and Change: Embedding Anti-Racism in Practice is a professional learning session that supports educators and leaders to take meaningful, sustained action against racism, aligned with the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) commitment to “take action against racism.”

This session focuses on the practical steps education sites can take to engage in anti-racism work, from self-interrogation and staff capacity-building to site-wide policy, practice, and cultural change. Participants will be supported to move beyond surface-level understandings, developing the skills and confidence to identify, challenge, and eradicate racism in all its form - whether interpersonal, institutional, or systemic.

The session will clarify the difference between anti-racism and cultural responsiveness: while cultural responsiveness focuses on belonging and respect for diverse cultural identities, anti-racism explicitly names and confronts power, privilege, and the structures that uphold racial inequity. Both are essential—but anti-racism demands active, intentional disruption of racist systems and behaviours.

Importantly, participants will explore how anti-racism is deeply connected to reconciliation - not as a separate initiative, but as part of the broader work of truth-telling, accountability, and justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Reconciliation without anti-racism risks being tokenistic; this session supports education sites to align their RAP commitments with real, transformative action.

Through practical tools, reflection activities, and examples of anti-racism in action across early learning, primary and secondary contexts, attendees will leave with the knowledge and strategies to lead change with integrity and impact.

This session is part three (3) of our three (3) part series. Sessions have been developed to be stand alone or to be accessed as a series.