Project details
Status: Current
Funding source: Department of Social Services
Building inclusive classrooms, confident teachers, and stronger communities.
Together We Learn is a two-year project designed to promote positive and inclusive attitudes towards people with disability among primary school children, their teachers, and the wider school community.
Through co-design with educators, students, families, and people with disability, we’re creating a unit of work on disability inclusion for teachers to deliver in upper primary schools across Australia. The project aims to spark meaningful conversations, highlight the benefits of diversity, and support young people to see inclusion as everyone’s responsibility.
Our goals
Together We Learn will:
- Build teacher confidence and capability to teach about disability and inclusion.
- Foster inclusive classrooms where every student feels valued and safe.
- Help students with disability and their families feel empowered to plan for their futures — including open, paid employment.
- Strengthen community understanding of the lifelong benefits of inclusion.
- Inspire industries and employers to create accessible and inclusive workplaces for the next generation.
Get involved
We’re currently inviting expressions of interest from teachers who want to help shape the project by taking part in one of the following:
- Community of Practice – Connect, learn, and share inclusive teaching approaches.
- Co-design Workshops – Help develop the teaching unit and classroom resources.
If you are a teacher who would like to be involved in one of the above, please complete our form to express your interest.
Soon, we will also be inviting children, young people and families take part in shaping the content for the educational resources by sharing your lived experiences to help create authentic, meaningful content for lessons and workshops.
We’ll also be running online workshops and guest speaker events throughout 2025–2026 to support teachers in delivering the program.
Why this matters
Inclusion starts early. When children learn about disability, access, and diversity from a young age, they grow up to be adults who understand, value, and actively create inclusive communities.
Together, we can build a generation that sees inclusion not as an adjustment — but as the norm.
