Assistant Principal Report 

Dear Parents and Carers,

BERRY STREET EDUCATION MODEL TRAINING

During this term a number of staff have been involved in Berry Street Training. They have joined with other local schools to participate in the four days of training.

The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) provides strategies for teaching and learning that enables teachers to increase engagement of students with complex, unmet learning needs and to successfully improve all students’ self-regulation, relationships, wellbeing, growth and academic achievement. 

BSEM’s unique approach is informed by the last 25 years of trauma-informed practice, positive psychology, and the science of learning research.

The five domains of the Berry Street Education Model correspond with child-development capacities that each student must grow in order to be ‘ready to learn’. When considering how to best meet the needs of students, we focus on building self-regulatory ability, relational capacity and then nurture wellbeing and willingness to engage in learning.

Body

Increasing students’ capacity for physical and emotional regulation of the stress response, de-escalation and focus.

Relationship

Nurturing on-task learning through relational 

classroom management strategies.

Stamina

Creating a culture of academic persistence by nurturing resilience, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset

Engagement

Motivating students with strategies that increase their willingness to learn.

Character

Harnessing a values and character strengths approach for learning and future pathways.

Working together, BSEM helps strengthen our whole-school approach to build consistency and predictability across all classrooms throughout the school.

Kind regards

Jennifer O’Connor

Assistant Principal.