Civic responsibilities will be be adopted and developed in various forms of partnerships between schools and agencies - including government - at state and local levels.

A key tool for encouraging this is the Student Teams Action Motivation Projects is relatively simple:

Student teams action motivation projects basically is the engagement of groups of students who work on real, identifiable issues of personal interest but for the good of the community they live in or school at. The students carry out research on the problem and come up with solutions which are presented to the Local council for implementation.

It is particularly valuable for a community body such as Local Government to commission and support the team's work, and to be an audience for its outcomes and proposals.

Student Teams Action Motivation Projects is based on the following principles:

• provision of active roles for young people to be part of their community;
• Involvement of young people as community investigators;
• allowing young people to do something that makes a differences or brings about change;
• directing the energies of our young and future leaders to programs that involve learning and that meet the twin purposes of social and academic goals.

For More information on this check out the Student teams action motivation. Criteria for these Teams include in:

• student involvement in identifying the project focus or topic - which could be total or partial through substantial student input into decision-making on how to approach it;
• Engagement of students in project implementation;
• Project focus is within the community (geographic, social or cultural) - generally beyond the school;
• identification and formation of a student team or teams;

For any identified community challenge we will encourage the setting of up Student Teams to deal with it.

Together with schools Student action teams will be developed to provide solutions to some issues relevant not only to student wellbeing but also the overall wellbeing of their communities

Our focus is on Student Teams that work with Local Government to investigate and act on pressing community issues. The choice of the focus for the Student action Teams will either be raised by students who feel strongly about such issues, or raised by Local Government. It must be an issue that is real, that motivates students, be one on which students can have an impact and which is achievable while schools' are still in session to ensure group dynamics amongst the students.