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"Some Happy Day is an essential resource for our secondary students that provides a human face to our society’s complex problem of homelessness. Viewing this important film teaches understanding, and encourages kindness and compassion in our young people. It may play a role in a solution for the decision makers of tomorrow."
CARO FLOOD, Teacher
Albert Park College, Victoria. Australia
"Education resources for a better world"
Some Happy Day partners with COOL.ORG
From 2024 the 4 lesson unit : Understanding Homelessness Through Film is now available to Australian schools for teachers of Yr 9 & 10 English and Social Studies, and Yr 11 & 12 Vocational streams. In collaboration with COOL.ORG these informed lessons aim to inspire empathy and understanding whilst encouraging out of the box, solution driven thinking to the youth of Australia around the issues of Homelessness.
To view these lessons click HERE
Cool.Org take real-world issues, including many of the biggest challenges facing humanity, and build lessons that empower students to take action, whilst aligning these lessons to the curriculum.
- Australia wide distribution
- Estimated reach of 70,000+ students
- 2 year contract with schools
- Integrated learning across multiple subjects
- Free access for remote learning, home schooling, private and public classrooms
- Inclusion in Cool Australia's digital library
- Regular impact reports backed by research and evidence
- Additional learning activities to inspire action and deepen understanding
“Future-ready students need to exercise agency in their own education and throughout life. Agency implies a sense of responsibility to participate in the world and in so doing to influence people, events and circumstances for the better".
Cool.org
TERTIARY EDUCATION
Paired with 2x documentaries Some Happy Day is now available as a teaching resource on the tertiary education platform CLICKVIEW.
Ideal for anyone teaching Social Work, Politics, Law, Ethics.
Some Happy Day has been used as a teaching resource by the
Law faculty of UNSW
& the
Social Work faculty of Deakin University in Geelong.
Please contact us if you are interested in obtaining an education licence or wish to know more about what we can offer.
"Putting ourselves in someone else's shoes and looking at the world through the eyes of someone different than ourselves creates a compassionate empathy that inspires people to want to take action and forms the foundation of social justice and the pursuit of the greater good for everyone."
Centre for Responsive Schools