Reconciliation as everyday practice

Reconciliation as Everyday Practice invites educators to explore how reconciliation can be lived daily through relationships, curriculum, and systemic change within education settings.

This session focuses on moving beyond one-off activities or annual events to a sustained and reflective practice that embeds reconciliation into the heart of everyday teaching and leadership. Central to this approach is the building of reciprocal and transformative relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — relationships grounded in trust, mutual respect, deep listening, and shared responsibility.

Participants will explore ways to meaningfully connect with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, ensuring that relationships are not extractive but rather led and informed by community voices, aspirations, and knowledges. The session will support educators to platform and amplify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches to education, including ways of knowing, being and doing, through both pedagogical practice and organisational culture.

In addition to practice-based strategies, this event will examine systems-level approaches to reconciliation - recognising that meaningful change also requires shifts in structures, policies, and institutional values. Educators and leaders will be guided through reflective frameworks that support critical self-assessment, site-wide planning, and long-term cultural transformation.

By grounding reconciliation in everyday practice, this session supports participants to lead change that is authentic, relational, and enduring.

This session is part two (2) of our three (3) part series. Sessions have been developed to be stand alone or to be accessed as a series.