The Koori Curriculum 2025 Programming and Planning Guide is here and it’s digital!
The Koori Curriculum Digital Educator Programming and Planning Guide is designed to build educators cultural confidence and capacity. It encapsulates all the essential ingredients needed to lead and develop innovative First Nation programs at your service.
Note: This Planner is best used in conjunction by attending one of our Programming, Planning and Pedagogy Sessions.
Who our planner is for:
- Educators who are wanting to lead their team to privilege Aboriginal perspectives in their program
- Educators wanting to make a meaningful commitment to Reconciliation
- Educators wanting support connecting with their local community
- Educators seeking to meaningfully embed Aboriginal perspectives in their program and understand Aboriginal pedagogies
- Educator wanting to build their cultural confidence
What our planner includes:
- Information on Aboriginal significant dates and celebrations.
- Space to help you map your community connections and tips to support you in building meaningful relationships.
- Templates that support you to program in a way that privileges First Nation pedagogies and embed cultural perspectives in children’s interests.
- A "Resource Audit” that allows you to assess cultural inclusions in your environment and make plans to improve places and spaces.
- Reminders to stop and connect with Country and jot down seasonal signs and signals.
- Support in setting realistic and achievable goals that allow you gain momentum with Aboriginal programs at your service.
- Provocations that encourage you to pause and reflect.
- Prompts to assist you in writing your Reconciliation Commitment Statement and bring your RAP to life.
- Pages that allow you to plan yearly, monthly and weekly.
Cover Art:
The artwork used throughout this planner has been designed by Sheri Skele, a proud Bidjara woman and a contemporary Aboriginal artist sharing her culture, experiences and hopes for healing our history through her knowledge and story works.
She began painting as a way to connect with her culture and community and with the help and guidance of her elders. She quickly realised that it has always been an innate part of her. Being able to continue this sacred tradition is something she cherishes and is deeply grateful for.
When she’s not in the studio painting she’s usually wrangling her three children Heart, Haven and Huxley who keep her grounded and very busy.
She calls her artworks bigi nagala, which means ' I am dreaming' in Bidjara. Our land spans across South West Queensland and is home to substantial Indigenous cultural heritage, Indigenous healing places, undisturbed natural bushlands, lagoons, wildlife and ancient waterways.
This is the place where the Rainbow Serpent, Mundagudda, began its movement through the landscape and formed the waterways including the sandstone gorge itself.
Follow Sheri on Instagram @bigi_nagala
