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Briony Franklin is a non-Indigenous Year 1 teacher with a passion for learning and teaching about Kaurna language, the language of the Traditional Owners of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.

A team in Kununurra, WA, adapted a language nest model to surround the children of Kununurra in the local, critically endangered Miriwoong language in daily or weekly sessions.

Issue 4 of Narragunnawali News celebrates the importance and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and the role schools and early learning services play in supporting the maintenance, revitalisation and revival of First Languages.

The Narragunnawali team has teamed up with Cool Australia to create new teaching resources designed to support inquiry into the histories and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples.

There have been many challenges internationally and close to home in the last few months, but there have also been stories of success and triumph that should be celebrated.

National Reconciliation Week is a week to share information, stories, experiences, knowledge and culture, but what happens once the week is over?

Between 27 May and 3 June this year, schools and early learning services around Australia celebrated National Reconciliation Week (NRW) with creativity and commitment.

NAIDOC Week is over, and it’s as good a reason as any to remind ourselves how important it is to make sure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures are part of every day of the year.

Sharon Davis is a Bardi Gija woman from Western Australia. Sharon brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her role as Team Leader of the Aboriginal Education Team at Catholic Education Western Australia.

This short film, presented by hip-hop artist Adam Briggs (a.k.a. Briggs), is a confronting yet compassionate look at Indigenous youth currently serving time in Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre in the Sydney suburb of Airds.

Great things happen when individuals translate their passion and commitment into supporting and inspiring others. Read about Kim Knersch and the educators at Wyndham City Council and their work integrating reconciliation into 23 early learning services in Victoria.

Issue 3 of Narragunnawali News shares the experiences schools and early learning services had during National Reconciliation Week and provides ideas for continuing your reconciliation journey year-round.

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a good chance for teachers and educators across all subject areas and year groups to talk about reconciliation with students and children in classrooms.

Jess Staines, Wiradjuri woman and educator from New South Wales, chats about her passion for supporting other educators to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into early learning programs.

The NEOMAD comic series follows the story of the Love Punks and Satellite Sisters, tech savvy young heroes from the Pilbara who speed through a digitised desert full of ‘spy bots’, ‘magic crystals’, fallen ‘rocket boosters’ and mysterious petroglyphs.