Wellbeing.
Berry Street Education Model
Over a two year period all teaching and Education Support staff at Eltham High School have been engaging in the Berry Street Education Model. The decision to engage with the model came about in response to the impact of COVID-19, and the model’s alignment with the philosophy of Eltham High School.
The model is an educator-designed and evidence-led framework that empowers schools to create classrooms where every student is ready to learn and able to thrive.
The model helps schools to help students by:
- understanding the impacts of trauma on child development and the ability to learn
- creating a supportive and trauma-informed positive education classroom
- bolstering student-teacher relationships
- instilling strengths-based practices across the school.
The course is arranged around the five Berry Street Education Model domains:
- Body – How to help your students to regulate their stress response, de-escalate in school and classroom contexts and provide strategies for increased focus.
- Relationship – Positive relational classroom management strategies that promote on-task learning
- Stamina – How to create a culture of academic persistence in your classroom by nurturing student resilience, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset.
- Engagement – How to motivate students with strategies that increase their willingness to learn
- Character – How to harness our values and character strengths approach for effective learning and for future pathways.
The five domains 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 and relational capacity, and then nurture wellbeing and willingness to engage in learning.
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