Testimonial
Reflections from a teacher of the Everyone Everyday program
"...It gave the children a much deeper understanding and awareness of disability..."
Primary School Program
The primary school program (Kindergarten to Year 6) consists of 35 lessons which focus on the concept of inclusion; and how all students and teachers can take action to ensure their schools are inclusive of children with disability. It is now available for implementation, and all the lesson plans, teacher background notes, evaluation reports and supporting documentation are available here Show more....
Participating schools receive professional development from the Community Development Team, which is TQI accredited (Teacher Quality Institute). The 2 hour professional development is free of charge and offered to all schools in the ACT on request.
If you would like to reproduce the program and implement it at your school without registering for professional development, we request, at the very minimum, that you notify Disability ACT of your intention to use the program. This includes users from interstate. Contacts from Disability ACT are Maureen Howe at maureen.howe@act.gov.au and Megan Campbell at megan.campbell@act.gov.au
Secondary School Program
The secondary school program (Years 7 to 12) is being trialled in Semester 2, 2014. The trial utilises Forum Theatre to provide opportunities for students, teachers, and audience members to explore key concepts relating to the inclusion of people with disability, and provides concrete examples of how we can take action to make a difference.
For more information about the trial, contact Maureen Howe at maureen.howe@act.gov.au
Everyone Everyday Books for sale
Two books have been published to support the Everyone Everyday Primary School program.
The first book, “Being Me, Being You” was developed for children in Kindergarten to facilitate thinking around valuing difference. The book was illustrated by a Year 6 school student, Caitlin Campbell. Show more...
The second book, "101 Ways To Include People With Disability", captures the ideas of school aged students across the ACT and aims to get people thinking about how we can all make a difference to create happy and healthy inclusive communities.