Empowering Educators

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matt Silverthorne brings 30 years of high school teaching experience with him to Empowered — he introduced the program to its very first classroom in 1991.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Matt is the Strategic Growth Director. His job entails inspiring and growing a movement that attracts and motivates Empowered educator customers to become principled social change entrepreneurs.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><strong>Show Highlights</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"Playing School" pivot to a Ruckus Maker connection to kids</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">First business we all start is the business of ourselves</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ownership of growth for the entire learning community</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Blended methodology connecting students to markets and entrepreneurial thinking</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">3D Empowered model to discover innate talents and abilities </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The components of the “special sauce” </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“Transformational mindset” Turning barriers into opportunities</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Connecting Content to our own value  </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Incentivize behavior and own your choices  </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We believe real change happens when we transform the classroom into a deeply experiential environment and we power those experiences with the undeniable power of markets. It means deemph