The Educator Empowerment Model

Rejuvenates the educator

Engages the student

Informs practice

Transforms the community

The 7 Essential Elements of the Educator Empowerment Model


  • Choice, voice, shared power - the power of being heard, starting with the condition and circumstances in which we find ourselves

  • Expressed Appreciation for Effort - “he had a hat”

  • Windows In - Music- History, Reality, Practice

  • Why of the Why of the Why - to ground and inform impactful practice

  • Reflection journal and Padlet - to support the integrative mind

  • Intentional cultivation and harvesting of insights & intention through:

  • Building of working and experiential definitions to expand conceptual understanding

  • Small focus groups for the cultivation of constructive conversations and dynamic dialogues

  • Productive PLCs that encourage sharing of resources and best practices

  • Impact Project that summarizes and synthesizes applied knowledge for immediate integration