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Hear how people from diverse cultural backgrounds work together to bridge differences.
Educators About us StudentsResources to build safe, inclusive and connected school communities
Begin with free professional learning, live webinars and our school wellbeing check.
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STATE AND TERRITORY INFORMATION
Explore respectful relationships education information specific to your state or territory.
Respectful Relationships Education
The ACT Education Directorate provides information and resources for educators and families.
Respectful Relationships Education
The ACT Education Directorate provides information and resources for educators and families.
Respectful Relationships Education
The ACT Education Directorate provides information and resources for educators and families.
Respectful Relationships Education
The ACT Education Directorate provides information and resources for educators and families.
Respectful Relationships Education
The ACT Education Directorate provides information and resources for educators and families.
Diversity and inclusion
Building positive and respectful relationships
Students feel safe in a community where all members are active participants in building a welcoming school culture that values diversity.
Schools can help everyone to feel a sense of belonging and connectedness by recognising and responding to the needs of specific groups in the school community.
Diversity exists in various ways including race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religious belief, ability and political allegiance.
We can all learn from one another and the first step is understanding and respecting diversity.
- Teach and model respect for diversity in the school community
- Collaboratively develop strategies with families and the community to build a cohesive and culturally safe school
- Embed strategies for building and maintaining positive, caring and respectful relationships across the school community
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Mapping student wellbeing frameworks
The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework is informed by relevant national, state and territory frameworks and initiatives. Find your state or territory framework, other national initiatives and browse international approaches to student wellbeing.
Visit the Independent Schools Council of Australia and the National Catholic Education Commission to learn more about their policies and approaches to student safety and wellbeing.
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Wellbeing is linked to improved academic achievement, enhanced mental health and responsible life choices
Some of the factors that make up wellbeing include:
- Being involved in supportive relationships
- Feeling that your life has meaning and purpose
- Feeling connected to others in your community
- Feeling a sense of control of your emotions
- Engaging in activities that are important to you.
As an educator, you want to ensure students are safe and happy throughout their time at school and beyond. Below are some ways to lay the foundations for student wellbeing and to collaborate with parents to build on and enhance these vital skills.
- Model strong, healthy and trusting relationships
- Teach social and emotional skills to build resilience and wellbeing
- Embed inclusive teaching practices to build a connected, cohesive and culturally safe school culture
- Provide opportunities for students to participate actively in their learning
- Make time for open communication with parents about their child
- Build positive relationships with community groups to share an understanding of student safety and wellbeing.
Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
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Welcome, educators
Discover wellbeing resources and teaching strategies for primary and secondary, plus free courses. The new Australian Student Wellbeing Framework and the School Wellbeing Check can enhance wellbeing and learning for everyone in your school community.
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Respectful Relationships Education
Supporting respectful relationships education
Respectful Relationships Education is the Australian Government’s program to support respectful relationships education in all Australian schools. Respectful relationships education is a primary prevention initiative to influence behaviour change. Its ultimate goal is to prevent domestic and family violence and promote positive attitudes, behaviours and equality within school communities.
Respectful relationships education focuses on teaching students how to form safe, positive and respectful relationships across a wide range of social situations.
Schools have always had a role in socialising our young people, and social and emotional learning is a core component of the Australian Curriculum.
Research has demonstrated that social problems of disrespect, violence and abuse can be significantly reduced by teaching and modelling relationship skills throughout foundation, primary and high school.
Scroll down to find information and resources to support respectful relationships education for a range of cohorts in your school:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
- Culturally diverse communities
- Student with disability
- Students identifying as LGBTIQ+
- Parents and carers
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Upcoming webinar
Coping with emotional challenges in career development
Join the teams from the Student Wellbeing Hub and the myfuture career information service in this webinar on the R U OK? Day. We will discuss about how career development influences, and is influenced by, wellbeing and emotional resilience
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Hear how people from diverse cultural backgrounds work together to bridge differences.
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Information and advice from around the web
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AUSTRALIAN STUDENT WELLBEING FRAMEWORK
The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework supports Australian schools to provide every student with the strongest foundation possible for them to reach their aspirations in learning and in life.
The vision of the Framework is that Australian schools are learning communities that promote student wellbeing, safety and positive relationships so that students can reach their full potential.
The Framework is based on evidence that demonstrates the strong association between safety, wellbeing and learning.
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PRINCIPLE
Principals and school leaders play an active role in building a positive learning environment where the whole school community feels included, connected, safe and respected.
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES
Develop the school’s vision and values, building on existing strengths, to enhance student learning and sustain the safety and wellbeing of the whole school community
Actively seek and incorporate students’ perspectives about safety and wellbeing in order to promote positive learning outcomes
Communicate the priorities for student learning, safety and wellbeing and encourage collaborative partnerships to enact the school’s vision and values
Collaboratively develop whole school policies, plans and structures for protecting the safety and promoting the wellbeing of staff, students, and families
Regularly monitor and review school capacity to address the safety and wellbeing of the whole school community in order to identify areas of strength and those requiring improvement
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PRINCIPLE
All members of the school community are active participants in building a welcoming school culture that values diversity, and fosters positive, respectful relationships.
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES
Recognise and value the role and contribution of staff, students and families in building and sustaining school connectedness
Respect the diversity of the school community and implement proactive strategies in order to build a cohesive and culturally safe school
Teach, model and promote values and behaviour in order to create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
Foster and maintain positive, caring and respectful student–peer, student–teacher, teacher–parent and teacher–teacher relationships
Engage in professional learning to build capacity for enhancing the social, emotional and learning outcomes of all students an
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PRINCIPLE
Students are active participants in their own learning and wellbeing, feel connected and use their social and emotional skills to be respectful, resilient and safe.
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES
Provide opportunities for authentic student decision-making over matters that affect them
Create and maintain inclusive and interactive learning environments to encourage active student participation to foster a sense of connectedness
Actively engage students through the use of evidence-informed, strengths-based approaches to enhance their own learning and wellbeing
Explicitly teach social and emotional skills using evidence-informed practices related to personal safety, resilience, help-seeking and protective behaviours across the curriculum
Collaborate with students to develop strategies to enhance wellbeing, promote safety and counter violence, bullying and abuse in all online and physical spaces
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PRINCIPLE
Families and communities collaborate as partners with the school to support student learning, safety and wellbeing.
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES
Proactively build collaborative relationships with families and communities to create a shared understanding of how to support student learning, safety and wellbeing
Develop strategies to sustain culturally respectful partnerships with families and communities that are welcoming and inclusive
Build partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and community organisations to ensure a culturally safe environment and a two-way reciprocal exchange of knowledge on wellbeing issues
Build links with community organisations, services and agencies to assist schools in the early identification of need and to collaboratively plan targeted support for all students and families, including those from vulnerable groups
Regularly monitor and review school capacity to respond to specific instances of student and family need to protect their safety and wellbeing within the context of the school’s urban, regional, rural or remote location
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PRINCIPLE
School staff, students and families share and cultivate an understanding of wellbeing and positive behaviour and how this supports effective teaching and learning.
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES
Actively seek the involvement of school staff, students and families in the promotion and recognition of positive behaviour
Embed wellbeing and support for positive behaviour strategies that are evidence-informed, promote resilience and align with the needs of the school community
Implement a whole school systemic approach to wellbeing and positive behaviour with tiers of support to meet the diverse needs of staff, students and families
Engage in professional learning to support the consistent implementation of the school’s plan for wellbeing and support for positive behaviour
Critically analyse and evaluate school data to inform decision-making in order to effectively respond to the changing needs of students and families
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AUSTRALIAN STUDENT WELLBEING FRAMEWORK
The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework supports schools to give every student a strong foundation so that they can reach their aspirations in learning and in life.
The Framework is based on evidence of the strong link between safety, wellbeing and learning. The Framework supports Australian schools to be learning communities that promote student wellbeing, safety and positive relationships so that students can reach their full potential.
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AUSTRALIAN STUDENT WELLBEING FRAMEWORK
The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework supports schools to give every student a strong foundation so that they can reach their aspirations in learning and in life.
The Framework is based on evidence of the strong link between safety, wellbeing and learning. The Framework supports Australian schools to be learning communities that promote student wellbeing, safety and positive relationships so that students can reach their full potential.
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Wellbeing is linked to enhanced learning outcomes, academic achievement, mental health and responsible life choices.
Here you'll find more about wellbeing, national programs and frameworks that support schools to enact practices to foster wellbeing and learning.
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Explore these topics to find information, advice and strategies for supporting your child’s wellbeing and safety
For each topic below you’ll find specific resources for your primary and secondary school children.
MANAGING UNCERTAINTY DUE TO COVID AND OTHER TRAUMATIC EVENTS
Find information about managing anxiety, wellbeing tools to work with students in class and webinars addressing topics such as Trauma-informed Practice and Re-adjusting to living with COVID.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Find information about managing anxiety, wellbeing tools to work with students in class and webinars addressing topics such as Trauma-informed Practice and Re-adjusting to living with COVID.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Find information about managing anxiety, wellbeing tools to work with students in class and webinars addressing topics such as Trauma-informed Practice and Re-adjusting to living with COVID.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Find information about managing anxiety, wellbeing tools to work with students in class and webinars addressing topics such as Trauma-informed Practice and Re-adjusting to living with COVID.
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- Examples of local practice
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What pre-service teachers are saying...
I encourage students to draw upon their own unique experiences and backgrounds…to highlight that difference is accepted and encouraged…and so students feel supported and safe within the classroom and foster positive relationships with others
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Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
The Framework is endorsed by Ministers of Education through the Education Council with input from all states and territories, education authorities and a range of national and international experts. It is based on evidence that recognises the strong links between student safety, wellbeing and learning outcomes.
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Beyond Blue Be You
Beyond Blue Be You
Be You is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, and delivered by Beyond Blue, Early Childhood Australia and headspace. It is based on evidence that confirms the continuing importance of building the capacity of early learning services and schools to foster mental health and assist children and families who are managing mental health issues.
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Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
The Framework is endorsed by Ministers of Education through the Education Council with input from all states and territories, education authorities and a range of national and international experts. It is based on evidence that recognises the strong links between student safety, wellbeing and learning outcomes.
Related Links
Beyond Blue Be You
Beyond Blue Be You
Be You is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, and delivered by Beyond Blue, Early Childhood Australia and headspace. It is based on evidence that confirms the continuing importance of building the capacity of early learning services and schools to foster mental health and assist children and families who are managing mental health issues.
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You just need to stop looking at everything as being a deficit, because everything, nearly everything, that could be a deficit can also be a strength.
Every child should be able to access and participate in their schooling. A disability should not be barrier to those rights.
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 (also known as ‘the Standards’) aim to ensure that every child with disability gets the same opportunities at school as other students. The Standards help ensure support for students with disability, including students on the autism spectrum, so that they can participate in education on the same basis as their peers.
All schools must follow the Standards, as well as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA).
Every child should be able to access and participate in their schooling. A disability should not be barrier to those rights.
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 (also known as ‘the Standards’) aim to ensure that every child with disability gets the same opportunities at school as other students. The Standards help ensure support for students with disability, including students on the autism spectrum, so that they can participate in education on the same basis as their peers.
All schools must follow the Standards, as well as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA).
Meeting with your child’s teacher in advance will ensure your child has the best start to school.
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Respect, gender and power
This lesson plan aims to support understandings of how influences such as media and individual cultures might impact on attitudes to gender roles, respect and power.
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This lesson plan aims to support understandings of how influences such as media and individual cultures might impact on attitudes to gender roles, respect and power.
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You just need to stop looking at everything as being a deficit, because everything, nearly everything, that could be a deficit can also be a strength.
Every child should be able to access and participate in their schooling. A disability should not be barrier to those rights.
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 (also known as ‘the Standards’) aim to ensure that every child with disability gets the same opportunities at school as other students. The Standards help ensure support for students with disability, including students on the autism spectrum, so that they can participate in education on the same basis as their peers.
All schools must follow the Standards, as well as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA).
Meeting with your child’s teacher in advance will ensure your child has the best start to school.
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