SWPBS / Berry Street
School Wide Positive Behaviour
School-wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) is an evidenced based framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures.
When SWPBS is implemented well, teachers and students have more time to focus on relationships and learning. Students and staff benefit from:
- increased respectful and positive behaviour
- increased time focused on learning
- improved social-emotional wellbeing
- positive and respectful relationships among students and staff
- a predictable learning environment with improved perceptions of safety and increased attendance
- improved student attendance
- decrease in suspensions
Teaching expected behaviours
College staff teach our safe, respectful and responsible behaviour expectations to our students in an age and context appropriate way. You can find out more about our behaviour expectation by reading our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support Matrix found below in the related downloads section.
Reinforcing expected behaviours
College staff verbally reinforce positive behaviours and issue Positive Behaviour Merits. Students can then exchange their positive behaviour merits for exchange items.
Berry Street Education Model
Since 2019 Whittlesea Secondary College has been a Berry Street Training and using this as part of our pedagogical model. We strongly believe in positive well-being as the foundation for positive engagement in learning.
The objective of the Berry Street Educational Model (BSEM) is to Help all students succeed and build a school of choice for students, parents and teachers alike.
The BSEM equips our school with practical, classroom-based strategies to increase the engagement of all students, including those with complex, unmet learning needs.
This education model enables Whittlesea Secondary College to support students’ self-regulation, relationships and wellbeing to increase student engagement and significantly improve academic achievement.