#4 The Importance of Empowering Youth

Join Empowering Youth of Iowa (EYI) Founder and President, Sarah Swayze, as we talk about EYI working to help struggling adolescents catch up and graduate with their peers.  The key is having the flexibility to work directly with youth through the establishment of trusting facilitative relationships geared towards helping them understand how they learn and how to advocate for themselves.  Schools and educators are under enormous pressure to shift an industrial model educational system, designed for a homogenous population, to a 21st century system, which is much more heterogeneous, needing to serve students where they are.  This amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic, the cultural debate, and the expectation of an unprecedented number of educators leaving the classroom.