Brad Williams will present a brief overview and Q&A session on the Four Ways 12 month Partnership Program.

Four Ways

Professional learning, coaching and capacity building for primary schools — with equal focus on positive outcomes for staff, students, families and the whole school community.

Four Ways gives primary schools the knowledge, practical skills, resources and support to implement a consistent approach to behaviour support. It begins with a one-day course teaching four responses that guide behaviour and support emotional regulation in the moment, while building self-regulation and executive functioning over time. Coaching, consultancy and capacity building follow, developing a group of in-house champions who sustain the approach across the school.

Built on a referenced evidence base of Australian and international research in self-regulation, emotion coaching, classroom management and school-wide behaviour support the benefits and outcomes are many, including:

• For students: clear and consistent boundaries; connection and co-regulation; predictable adult responses; more time spent learning; growth in self-regulation; social and life skills; resilience.
• For staff: practical (in the moment) responses; less stress and energy spent on behaviour; more time teaching; shared language; teamwork; familiarity and confidence in school processes.
• For families: education in Four Ways; parenting skills; trust and transparency in how behaviour is supported; shared language.
• Better relationships for all