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Knowledge Development & Advocacy
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BERRY STREET
EDUCATION MODEL
SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS
INCLUDE:
The team working with 25 schools
across Australia, in addition to
our own Berry Street School
2015/16 was a remarkable year
of achievement, where our small
team greatly exceeded the business
development targets that we set.
The Catholic Education Office
contracting us to deliver BSEM
to 337 of their wellbeing and
school leaders
The Youth Research Centre
Graduate School of Education
(University of Melbourne) evaluated
the two pilot programs in Mt Ridley
College in Craigieburn and Morwell
Primary School.
Following implementation of the
Berry Street Education Model
(BSEM), there were: significant gains
in learning in literacy and numeracy
(an average of 2 years growth in one
year at Morwell Primary School);
more positive attitudes from
students, especially in motivation
and learning confidence; increased
teacher effectiveness; improved
classroom behaviour; and an 88%
reduction in suspensions in one
school and 47% in the other.
Being one of eight organisations
nationally selected for a National
Impact grant from Perpetual
Publishing five resource books
for teachers
Securing funding from Helen
Macpherson Smith Trust and
Newsboys Foundation to develop
a BSEM Alumni so the model can
be sustained through a learning
portal and annual event
Reduction in
suspension in
a school
Worked with
Schools
88%
25
“
I have been here 16 years
and my staff have a terrible
and well-known reputation
for being a rude audience
in professional learning. In
16 years, I have never seen
them the way they were
today. They were engaged,
focussed, proactive and
grateful.This was the best
professional learning in my
school’s history.
”
Principal
ANNUAL REPORT 2016
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