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Berry Street Education Model

Berry Street

The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) is offered as a suite of structured professional development and consultation services for school leaders, teachers and support staff to improve whole-school wellbeing.

  • Online
  • ACT
  • NSW
  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • Tas
  • Vic
  • WA

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: VIC

Product type: Posters; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Student activities; Professional learning; Whole school approach or initiative; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

Berry Street
ABN: 24 719 196 762

https://www.berrystreet.org.au/learning-and-resources/berry-street-education-model

bsem@berrystreet.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Communities: Diverse cultures or language groups, First Nations, Neurodiversity or disability, Rainbow and LGBTQIA+

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained

Aims & approach

The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) is an approach to teaching and learning that enables educators to successfully improve all students' self-regulation, growth, and academic achievement.

Our unique approach equips mainstream and specialist schools with practical strategies to increase engagement and proactively support all students, including those with complex, unmet needs.

BSEM provides whole of school support for teaching and learning which encourages students to communicate and meet their own needs for learning in healthy ways each day. The model focuses on proactive, consistent school routines, healthy student-teacher relationships, and proactive intervention for students.

Our model builds on Berry Street's 140 years of experience supporting children and their families. The positive impacts of BSEM on engagement and academic growth, student and staff wellbeing, and school culture have been explored through over a decade of longitudinal research.

In addition to our four-day foundational training course, BSEM offers a range of masterclasses to support schools in targeting the unique needs of their communities and students.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

BSEM aligns to the principles of trauma-informed practice and the applications of positive psychology in school and classroom settings. We view behaviour through a biopsychosocial model, and we are informed by a range of other models and perspectives including CPS, the work of Mona Delahooke, Paul Dix and other theorists and practitioners. We support schools with trauma-informed tools and strategies that are adaptable to each school context, policy and procedures.

Backed by numerous published research articles (eg. Stokes H, Brunzell T (2024). Implementing Trauma-informed Pedagogies for School Change: Shifting Schools from Reactive to Proactive. Emerald Publishing).