Banksia Gardens Community Services is a vibrant community service organisation located in Broadmeadows, Victoria. With a strong commitment to community development and action research principles, our programs focus mainly on education and training, young people, environmental sustainability and community participation and advocacy.
In 2020 BGCS established the Northern Centre for Excellence in School Engagement (NCESE), a formal collective comprising 15 local schools. Its work flows from the partners’ shared understanding of the deep roots of early disengagement in trauma and structural disadvantage, and of its catastrophic consequences in health, wellbeing, and educational outcomes. The program aims to build collective capacity to develop and implement programs that support school engagement for all, including and especially – our most vulnerable students
The Teaching & Learning Toolkit can help teachers as they consider approaches for the classroom. Use the links below to access the Toolkit approaches mapped to each element.
Theme | Building block | Mapping to related approaches in the E4L Teaching & Learning Toolkit |
Relationships | Strong student-student relationships | |
Strong student-teacher relationships | ||
Strong teacher-teacher (staff) relationships | ||
Strong links with families and community agencies | ||
School leadership culture and values | Identify risk factors, risk pathways and interventions | |
Focus on whole school safety, health and wellbeing | ||
Implement enrichment programs | ||
Adopt trauma-informed and related approaches | ||
Curriculum and pedagogy | Focus on emotional regulation and SEL | |
Focus on executive functions | ||
Meaningful, relevant curriculum and pedagogical practices | Metacognition and self-regulation | |
Establish high standards and expectations |