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Equity Stakeholder Alliance

Building a coalition of organisations to work in partnership with students and teachers to shift systemic barriers to education equity in low-SES communities.

Our Shared Narrative

Our members are coming together because the inequity in Australia’s education system is growing, with our most vulnerable children and young people not consistently receiving the experiences and opportunities they need to succeed in addition to schools facing immense pressure with fragmented support.

Members have decided to work collaboratively, courageously and strategically. We want to align our efforts by collaboratively developing solutions, trialing new partnership models and advocating for systemic change.

Ultimately, we aim to take meaningful and impactful steps towards a more equitable education system where all students and teachers are empowered to thrive. 

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Our Key Objectives

To strengthen relationships, trust and accountability between members to act collaboratively 

​To build a shared understanding of the problem and leverage points for change driven by the lived experiences of students, teachers and the organisations providing support to them. 

To enable ongoing collaboration to activate leverage points for change 

To share and advocate for the learnings of this collaboration with the broader education equity sector to create systemic change 

Our Current Members

Alannah & Madeline Foundation 
Centre for Multicultural Youth 
Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare 
Learning Creates Australia 
Project Rockit 
Teach for Australia 
The Smith Family 
Victorian Aboriginal Education Assoc. Inc. 
VicSRC 
Brian M Davis Charitable Foundation 
William Buckland Foundation (Equity Trustees) 

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Our Key Activities

Establishing shared priorities to address barriers to change based on the lived experience of students, teachers and members 

Establishing a leadership council of students, teachers and organisations representatives 

Participating in action learning groups and other project-based work (e.g. mapping third sector provision of school supports) 

Sharing knowledge and building members capacity to act systemically  

Advocating collectively to spotlight the lived experiences of students, teachers and members 

Collaborating with the Department of Education and other peak education stakeholders  

Our Current Priorities 

Our collaborative system mapping with students, teachers and membershas identified these 3 initial priorities: 

  1. Defining education equity to work towards and advocate for a shared vision for a more equitable education system 
     

  2. Coordinating the supports and services members provide to low-SES school communities to improve access for students, teachers and families 
     

  3. Researching and identifying key opportunities to act systemically to strengthen student/teacher relationships as a key pathway to education equity 

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If you are interested in your organisation taking part in this work, please contact our Policy & Collective Impact Lead, Ange Barry

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

The Education Equity Alliance acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands upon which we work and live. 

 

We pay our respects to the First Nations elders, families, students, and colleagues we have had the privilege to work alongside in the pursuit of education, and all they have taught us. 

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We will work alongside these communities to realise an education system that recognises the strength and potential of our First Nations students, and so many others, each and every day.  

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