SHIFT Schools Initiative
SHIFT is Footlights Foundation's flagship school engagement programme designed to help children, educators, and schools build cultures of empathy, accessibility, and belonging. Through experiential learning, educator training, creative interventions, and school space transformation, SHIFT introduces young people to neurodiversity, disability inclusion, co-regulation, and inclusive community-building.
The initiative includes
SHIFT Your Experience – an immersive disability and neurodiversity sensitization installation
Educator workshops on inclusion, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), and co-regulation
Sensory-aware and calming spaces within schools
Student-led inclusion murals and creative placemaking projects
Participatory activities exploring empathy, accessibility, difference, and belonging
SHIFT creates opportunities for students and educators to experience, reflect, and practice inclusion together.
