Spotlight: Bruce Johnson – Inspiration to Really Support Each Student
Bruce Johnson is a physics professor at Arkansas State University. This picture went viral in 2018 when one of his students, Kristen Black, posted the picture on social media. The student had a daycare conflict and Bruce just told her to bring the child to…
Spotlight: Charlotte Mason
As we start another new year, we put our spotlight on a January baby, Charlotte Mason, born January 1st, 1842. She is another great and innovative educator who helped change the way we think about children and their upbringing. She published the 6 volume Original…
Spotlight: Two New Year’s Resolutions for Each Month
January I will keep my hands, feet, and other objects to myself when non-teachers tell me how to run my classroom; instead I will learn one new teaching technique between now and the end of the year and ask students what they think of it….
Spotlight: Journalists
“Bulgarian television reporter Viktoria Marinova has become the third journalist to be murdered in the European Union in the last year and the fourth since the start of 2017. The 30-year-old’s body was found dumped near the Danube River in the town of Ruse, northern Bulgaria,…
Spotlight: Leah Guenther, MS Teacher
Leah wrote a recent article in Harvard Educational Review. She has taught for 9 years and says: “I adore this job. There is nothing else I would rather do. It is challenging, however, so I am always looking for practical ways to ensure my longevity in…
Spotlight: José Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema orchestra, 1939-2018
Jose Abreu, founder of El Sistema Youth Orchestra in Venezuela, died Saturday, March 24th, at the age of 78. Abreu founded the globally acclaimed El Sistema, or The System, in 1975 in a garage with just nine musicians. In an interview, Abreu said about that…
Spotlight: Mr. Whitson – Best Teacher I Ever Had
By David Owen from Reader’s Digest (Asian Edition), April 1991, 47-48, downloaded June 1 2018. Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out…
Spotlight: Teachers Who Make a Difference
In this issue, we spotlight a teacher who made a difference in the hopes that you will write into Empower and tell us about teachers who have made a difference in your life or the lives of children that you know. We will publish these…
Spotlight: Daphne Caruana Galizia
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative reporter who was murdered on October 16th, 2017. She was about to drive off in her car when a car bomb was detonated, apparently by a radio signal from an off-shore boat. Empower places the spotlight on her…
Spotlight: Coach Aaron Feis
Coach Aaron Feis died in the line of duty. He was not a policeman, on assignment in Afghanistan. He was an assistant football coach in a school in Florida. He died placing his body between the gunman and three girls in his school. The Orlando…
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