Translanguaging in the classroom: How can it support children’s recovery from refugee trauma?
Translanguaging Tip Sheet for Educators Translanguaging is a powerful way to help students learn by allowing them to use all the languages they know. It’s more than just switching between languages—it’s about making full use of their linguistic skills to…
Refugee Week in Schools: A Trauma-Informed Recovery-Oriented Approach
Refugee Week in Schools Tip Sheet Refugee Week can stir up complex emotions linked to trauma, family separation, or ongoing uncertainty. A trauma-informed approach, guided by four key recovery goals, helps schools honour the week in ways that are uplifting,…
Harmony Week and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in NSW Schools
Image Source: DIAC Images Read our tip sheet on observing Harmony Week in a way that incorporates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Supporting and Maintaining a Safe Work Environment for Multicultural School Staff
Multilingual School Staff enrich our school communities with their language skills, cultural knowledge and a strong desire to support student learning and wellbeing. The STARTTS School Liaison Team has produced an In-depth Article as well as a Checklist on how…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 3 Conclusion: Anti-Racism and Inclusion in Schools
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…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 3 Ep 4- Personal Racism: How Racism Impacts the Developing Individual
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…
Supporting 74 Ezidi Genocide Commemoration (Also known as Roja Resh or Black day), 3rd of August
By Rachelle Coe & Nicole Loehr
