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What is the Start Where You Are classroom curriculum?
The Start Where You Are classroom curriculum is a free set of 26 ready-to-teach lessons in 14 units, built from the book for Years 9 to 12. Each lesson runs about 50 minutes, is mapped to the Australian Curriculum and the Victorian Curriculum, and needs no training to teach.
How it's organised
- 14 units following the book: the introduction, all 12 chapters and the closing letter, "A Letter to My 18-Year-Old Self"
- Two lessons for every chapter
- Grounded in the real stories, ideas and tools from the book
What makes it easy to run
- About 50 minutes per lesson
- No training needed
- Students don't need their own copy of the book
- Units can be taught in any order, because each chapter stands on its own
How to get it
Register free as an educator. Your dashboard links straight to the curriculum and its unit-by-unit curriculum alignment.
Quick answers
Is it free?
Yes, for registered educators.
Can we teach just one unit?
Yes. Each chapter, and each unit, stands on its own.
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Why people trust Start Where You Are
- Written by Ash Manuel, a former PE teacher and founder of Growing With Gratitude, which has reached more than 1 million young people across 1,205 schools in 80 countries.
- Foreword by Dr Phil Cummins of the University of Sydney and the Sydney Character Initiative.
- Shaped by conversations with young people about what they actually wanted from a book like this.
- Published by Amba Press and featured on 9News Adelaide.