Building on Cultural Awareness and Leading along the path to Cultural Competency 1

The Little Red Yellow Black Book Include the cover page as background 2

3 So you’ve got the book in your school/organisation – now what? This session will explore practical ways of using the LRYB book. It will · Be unpacked as a resource to build cultural awareness. Used as a means of leadership capacity development towards cultural competence. Be adaptive to whatever your role might be or whomever your audience might be ( Colleagues, Middle Managers, Class Teachers or Students). Align with Dare to Lead’s Leadership Frame. Assist you in collegially sharing DTL’s goals in the leadership of improved Indigenous Outcomes

4 Unpacking the book as a resource and to raise cultural awareness – using copies of the Tindale language map to focus them at a personal level of engagement (Leadership starts from within and building connection) then “what do we, as Australian citizens know about our Indigenous heritage? Quiz referenced to sections of the book – done in pairs; answers orally shared in pairs (with LRYB Book page references). Hand out and discuss the Reference Guide Sheet (resource developed to reference the different sections and suitable activities which align)

5 Now that you are familiar with the resource, how might you use it in your context to further develop cultural competence? Role Matrix (resource handout) and some key questions to explore this. Participants spend time exploring the questions and responding.

6 Brainstorm some activities from your own particular school setting which already strive to develop more understanding and opportunities in your setting eg NAIDOC, Indigenous Perspectives Across the Curriculum; Community members sharing culture etc How might the LRYB book help to deepen our Cultural Competency around these existing activities and broaden our scope to other engagement in your setting? – Both group professional dialogue and personal reflection.

7 How do the aims of the LRYB Book align with the principles of DTL? Share the aims from pages 2 and 3 (on the guide) and then compare with the L5 Frame – discuss the alignment with each. Participants supply examples of each from their own settings or experience... Or how they might develop something which might help alignment.

8 Tie back to a couple of the comments from the Courier Mail’s book review… that it should be a text for the nation Now just kick back, and enjoy the read take some time to actually explore the book.