Albany Senior High School/Impact Projects/The Four Principles

Student Ownership and Agency
How excited are you about this project? The project focuses and builds on you and your group's strengths and passions. The project matters to you, you care about what you are doing.

Substantial Learning Beyond the Classroom
How will your new skills change the world? Your project supports substantial learning that deepens the understanding, skills and dispositions of the group and yourself. The learning offers challenge to all group members over a sustained period of time.

A Quality Product
How will you make your product awesome? Meets the aim of your project and involves something your are interested in and/or passionate about. A quality product will be useful and provide a solution to a need your group has identified. It will be useful after the term of the project.

Participating and Contributing with the Community
Who wants it and who cares? The project enables you to participate and contribute to their community in a meaningful way. The 'community' is anything larger than yourself for example identifying a stakeholder who the project group will work with/for developing their project in some way