Global Citizenship, Sustainability, and Student Agency
Professional learning 2026-27 for Independent Schools Victoria from Inspire Citizens.
Supporting Schools to Move from Vision to Impact
Inspire Citizens partners with schools to build meaningful, sustainable approaches to global citizenship, sustainability, student leadership, student agency, and community engagement.
Rather than delivering one-off workshops, we go beyond this to help schools design systems, build capacity, and create long-term implementation plans that lead to lasting change for students, educators, and communities.
Inspire Citizens Programs
What if your school's vision for global citizenship, sustainability, service learning, or student agency was implemented consistently across every classroom, year level, and co-curricular programme?
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Strategic Planning & Whole-School Implementation
Building Sustainable Systems for Global Citizenship, Service Learning and Community Impact.
Many schools have strategic priorities for global citizenship, sustainability, service learning, student agency, or wellbeing, but struggle to translate these aspirations into consistent practice.
Inspire Citizens supports leadership teams to:
Develop strategic plans and implementation roadmaps
Align initiatives with school mission, vision, and improvement priorities
Build whole-school frameworks for global citizenship, sustainability, and service learning
Embed the Australian Cross-Curriculum Priorities across learning areas
Establish stakeholder teams, leadership structures, and implementation processes
Create indicators, monitoring systems, and evidence collection tools
Develop community partnership strategies and engagement protocols
Curriculum Design & Enhancement
Embedding Global Citizenship, Sustainability, and Student Agency into Existing Programs
Inspire Citizens helps schools strengthen existing curriculum while maintaining alignment with Australian Curriculum, IB, and other frameworks. Areas of support include:
Design learning experiences that intentionally integrate Australian Curriculum General Capabilities or the IB Learning Profile Attributes with subject-specific achievement standards, ensuring students develop transferable competencies through authentic inquiry, community-connected learning, service learning, systems thinking, and human-centered design while achieving required curriculum outcomes.
Design cross-curricular and interdisciplinary learning experiences
Inquiry-based learning enhancement
Concept-based curriculum development
Design Thinking and Human-Centred Design integration
New Metrics Complex Capabilities
Service Learning and Community Engagement
Sustainability and Systems Thinking
Student Agency and Taking Action Pathways
Assessment design and authentic demonstrations of learning
Student Agency & Leadership Development
Inspire Citizens provides flexible pathways for developing student leadership and agency.
Option A: Student Leadership Programs
Direct work with students through:
Leadership workshops
Leadership retreats
Student leadership conferences and events
Community impact projects
Student action planning and project management
Communication and facilitation training
Student Leadership Micro-Credential Programs
Option B: Building Capacity with Advisors and Educators
Professional learning for educators who support student leadership through:
Student leadership advisor training
Leadership program, curriculum and resource development
Facilitation and coaching strategies
Toolkits, frameworks, and implementation resources
Ongoing mentoring and support
This model enables schools to develop sustainable leadership programs led by their own educators
IB Programme-Specific Support
Supporting Schools to Strengthen Agency, Action, Community Engagement, and Impact Across the IB Continuum
Whole IB Continuum Support: Across PYP, MYP, and DP, Inspire Citizens helps schools create coherent, developmental pathways for:
Agency and Action
Community Engagement
Service Learning
Sustainability and Global Citizenship
Student Leadership
Community Partnerships
Reflection and Impact Measurement
Experiential Learning
Systems Thinking and Human-Centred Design
Primary Years Programme (PYP)
Strengthening Action and Agency
- Enhance student agency and meaningful action throughout units of inquiry and standalone learning experiences.
- Support educators in moving beyond teacher-directed action toward student-driven opportunities for impact.
- Design structures that help students connect learning to authentic local and global issues.
Embedding the Updated Transdisciplinary Themes
- Unpack and operationalize the updated PYP transdisciplinary themes.
- Connect conceptual understandings to meaningful action and agency through the Inspire Citizens Empathy-to-Impact framework.
- Design provocations, inquiry pathways, and reflection opportunities that strengthen learner ownership and impact.
Elevating the Exhibition Process
- Strengthen the Exhibition journey by embedding action and agency throughout the process rather than positioning action as an end product.
- Develop authentic community connections, expert partnerships, and investigation opportunities.
- Support students in designing meaningful and sustainable actions that emerge from their inquiry.
- Build educator capacity to facilitate deeper student ownership, reflection, and impact.
Middle Years Program
Community Engagement Systems and Structures
- Create community partnership protocols, partnership databases, and engagement frameworks.
- Embed meaningful engagement opportunities within curriculum, advisory, experiential learning, and co-curricular programs.
Community Project Enhancement
- Strengthen Community Project processes through inquiry, stakeholder engagement, project management, reflection, and impact measurement.
- Develop structures that increase student ownership while ensuring project quality and sustainability.
Personal Project Enhancement
- Support supervisors and students with frameworks that strengthen inquiry, planning, reflection, and project implementation.
- Help students move from product-focused projects toward authentic impact, purpose, and real-world application.
Interdisciplinary Learning
- Design and enhance interdisciplinary units and learning experiences.
- Integrate global citizenship, sustainability, systems thinking, design thinking, and community engagement into interdisciplinary learning.
Diploma Program
CAS Programme Design and Enhancement
- Strengthen CAS programmes through the design of resources, structures, and learning experiences that support students, advisors, and coordinators.
- Build stronger connections between CAS experiences, reflection practices, community partnerships, and student growth.
- Develop systems that increase participation, quality, and consistency across year levels.
Core Classes and CAS Support Structures
- Design advisory, homeroom, or core classes that support CAS planning, reflection, project management, and impact analysis.
- Create toolkits and resources that streamline implementation for coordinators and advisors.
Collaborative Sciences Project (Group 4 Project) Enhancement
- Transform the Collaborative Sciences Project (Group 4 Project) into a meaningful community-connected experience.
- Integrate interdisciplinary collaboration, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, and authentic impact opportunities.
- Move beyond traditional presentations toward real-world application and community engagement.
CAS, Career-related Studies Programme, and Collaborative Sciences Project Alignment
- Align CAS, Career-related Studies Programme, and Collaborative Sciences Project processes to create coherent systems across DP pathways.
- Develop shared structures, reflection protocols, partnership systems, and project management approaches that reduce duplication and strengthen student experiences.
Professional Learning Resources & Certification
Flexible Professional Learning for Schools and Individual Educators
Inspire Citizens offers two professional learning pathways designed to support educators in developing global citizenship, sustainability, service learning, and student agency across their schools.
Inspire Citizens Global Citizenship Certificate
A year-long professional learning journey for educators, combining practical frameworks, implementation strategies, and a global community of practitioners who learn, share, and grow together.
Short Professional Learning Courses
Focused 2–4 hour learning experiences exploring specific topics, providing practical strategies, resources, and examples that educators can apply immediately.
Both pathways connect educators with proven approaches and real-world examples from schools around the world.
Not sure which program fits best your strategic priorities and/or learning goals?
Meet Lottie Dowling, Inspire Citizens Asia Pacific Lead Facilitator
Lottie focuses on whole-school global citizenship, student leadership, and community engagement, specializing in Identity, Diversity and Belonging for schools in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on 25+ years in schools globally, she supports schools to design curriculum and co-curriculum programs that integrate real-world impact aligned to curriculum outcomes.