Rafik Tanious returns to Hints for Healing to tie together the four episodes on racism and anti-racism leave you with some concluding remarks. We hope this season has been helpful in forming your conceptualisations of how racism impacts on students with refugee experience and what can be done to ameliorate its effects. Produced by Nicole Loehr. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Eric Avery.

In this episode, STARTTS School Liaison Officer, Rafik Tanious, discusses how all forms of racism impact on the developing individual and highlights how schools can work against racism and toward inclusion, belonging and recovery for learners with refugee experience.  Produced by Nicole Loehr. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Eric Avery.

Supporting Student Wellbeing during COVID-19 Restrictions and Remote-learning  By Deb Gould Image credit: HaticeEROL, Pixabay  “I can’t do this anymore”, “Nothing I do makes any difference”.  By the time this edition comes out, NSW students will have been learning from home for about 10 weeks and probably have another 5 weeks to go. We all have had to adjust expectations…

We Need to Talk about Devices – Deb’s Digest Term 3, 2021 By Deb Gould  Image source: pxfuel Initially, Nicole and I had flagged ‘gaming’ as this term’s topic. But, with the average gamer being 34 (Brand et al., 2019), this doesn’t really cover the concern that many of us have about young people in the online world. And, let’s be real, the…

Suspensions and Expulsions in NSW Schools – Deb’s Digest Term 2, 2021 By Deb Gould Image credit: Abhinav Thakur (CCO) This is not a hints and tips piece; very far from it. Hopefully, it will stimulate reflection on the fact that 32,300 NSW public school students received short-term suspensions in 2018 with more than 9000 of them…