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Areas for action
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Responsibilities
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Policies and guidelines
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- Review institutional policies, procedures and practices to ensure they do
not discriminate, either directly or indirectly, against any individual or group
on the basis of their race, ethnicity, culture, language or religion.
- Establish policies and guidelines which clearly articulate principles and
procedures to counter racism including clear procedures for the resolution of
complaints of racism.
- Review recruitment, selection and promotion procedures to ensure that they
are culturally inclusive and encourage the employment of people from diverse
cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
- Establish policies that support the more equitable participation of students
from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in
schooling.
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Curriculum and pedagogy
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- Provide curriculum and resources which challenge racist attitudes
and behaviours and increase students’ understanding of racism.
- Provide curriculum and resources which recognise and value the unique place
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories, languages and
societies.
- Provide programs to support students from diverse cultural and linguistic
backgrounds.
- Review curriculum, assessment practices and resources to ensure that they
are inclusive of the educational needs of students from culturally and
linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Training and development
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- Provide training programs in valuing diversity, cross-cultural
understanding and strategies to counter racism.
- Provide support and training for teachers in culturally inclusive teaching
practice and program design.
- Provide training for staff in supporting students who are involved in racist
incidents.
- Enhance workplace productivity and service provision by fully utilising the
skills, talents and varying perspectives of staff from diverse backgrounds.
- Provide leadership and management training to staff from diverse cultural
and linguistic backgrounds.
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Student support and development
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- Develop guidelines for student representative bodies to ensure they
are inclusive and provide a balanced representation.
- Provide training for student representative bodies in cross-cultural
understanding and strategies to counter racism.
- Provide opportunities for students to become involved in developing and
evaluating system-wide initiatives to counter racism.
- Provide student support services that are appropriate for culturally and
linguistically diverse groups.
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Parent and community involvement
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- Encourage representation of parent and community groups from diverse
cultural and language backgrounds in the development and evaluation of policies,
guidelines and procedures.
- Provide support to schools to ensure they are able to communicate
effectively with their diverse communities, including the use of interpreters,
translations and community support staff.
- Encourage schools and their communities to celebrate key community
events.
- Establish community consultation and advisory mechanisms on racism in
education and barriers to participation for identified student
groups.
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Monitoring and reporting
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- Develop system-wide procedures for monitoring and reporting on
initiatives to counter racism.
- Monitor the educational outcomes for identified groups of students compared
to those of the population as a whole.
- Monitor the incidence and resolution of complaints of racism within systems
and schools.
- Monitor the participation of staff in training programs designed to counter
racism.
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