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How a high school classroom became a 'sacred space' for Indigenous students

2024/1/24
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A clue on the classroom wall helped one student find a long-lost relative, and the same room helped another trace her ancestry.

The Cooinda room at Henry Kendall High School on the Central Coast of NSW isn't your average classroom. 

Now, students and education advocates are calling for every public school to have something like it, to teach Indigenous cultures and histories and improve outcomes for students.