What is Empowerment?
Empowerment is a social skills curriculum developed for use with students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities in St. Paul Public Schools.
It is an approach to people and behavior that is founded on the belief that each person has core value - a universal birthright meaning that every person is lovable, important, and valuable regardless of a their behavior or any other personal characteristics.
Read more about Empowerment.
Use & Copyright
Many of the posts on this website are intended for use in Empowerment groups in Saint Paul Public Schools. Therefore access is limited.
All lessons are under copyright by Saint Paul Public Schools' Empowerment. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
Empowerment Concepts in the News
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World Class Violinist (Subway) – State of Mind (Part 1)
Video of Jonathan Bell, world class violinist, playing in the Washington DC subway stations. Lesson plan on State of Mind included. -
Prisoner Writing Program at Stillwater Prison
Prisoner Writing Program at Stillwater Prison Deborah Appleman didn’t ask her students what they had done, because she knew they had done terrible things. “Every single other person in their... -
Paraplegic Surfer Video- Power Mode or State of Mind
Lesson Plan Ideas: This could be used as power mode or state of mind lesson. Encourage the students to define why it’s power mode and explore how his life would...
Supplemental Empowerment Lessons
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Mary J. Blige Part 3- WEAK MODE & CORE HURTS
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Cognitive Re-Framing Supplemental Lesson
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Mary J. Blige Video
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Core Hurts Grid
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Mary J Blige- Life Story (Article)
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