Leadership and advocacy in the classroom
08 September 2025
This blog post brings together our leadership and advocacy resources. The range of resources include two video series where MPs discuss their leadership journey and advice for young people, as well as perspective cards, teacher guides and posters that can be used in the classroom to support young people to take action.
Leadership and advocacy video series
Leadership and advocacy
The Leadership and advocacy series includes six videos where members of parliament and young advocates discuss their leadership journeys, what motivates them and what they've learnt so far.
- Video 1: Meet Victorian MPs and young leaders
- Video 2: Advocating for your community
- Video 3: Leadership is about listening and taking action
- Video 4: How to manage conflict
- Video 5: Advice for aspiring leaders
- Vdeo 6: The leadership journey
Explore the first Leadership and advocacy series
Leadership and advocacy: Taking action
The second installment of the Leadership and advocacy series includes six videos showcasing members of parliament as they share their leadership journeys, how they engage with young people and advice for the next generation of leaders in Victoria.
- Video 1: Meet Victorian MPs
- Video 2: Why young people should take on advocacy roles
- Video 3: Engaging with young people
- Video 4: How young people can prepare for a meeting
- Video 5: How young people can gain more leadership experience
- Video 6: Advice for young leaders
Explore the Leadership and advocacy: Taking action video series
Exploring a range of perspectives on an issue
Engaging perspectives: Schools
Engage with and develop a range of perspectives on any given topic relating to schools using this set of cards. Great for school and student leaders.
This set of cards can be used to explore issues and topics relating specifically to schools. The cards consist of three different categories: stakeholders, priorities and emotional motivations. Each card has a series of questions to work through, and the categories when used in conjunction with each other, can encourage new or different arguments on a given topic.
Explore the Engaging perspectives: Schools card deck
Exploring taking action
Action and influence
This resource explores the different actions people can take to create change, and the nature of their influence, from small-scale, local outcomes to coordinated actions that can have global impact.
Through the activities provided in this teaching guide, students can explore different actions and how they contribute to civic life, including civic participation, advocacy and activism. The frameworks provided help students to identify how each action works—the direction, pace and scale—to bring about change. Each of the activities asks students to evaluate the effectiveness, consequences and impact change.
Explore the Action and influence teacher guide
Exploring the work of parliament
Engaging with parliament posters
Download and print your own set of classroom posters outlining the ways people can engage with parliament. Designed as simple flowcharts that include the process, key information and QR codes for more information, these can be used to prompt students to get involved and take part in some of Victoria's democratic systems.
Explore the Engaging with parliament digital posters