Empower Academy is a separate school program that services students with various social emotional and behavior needs through compassionate, therapeutic and nurturing best practices with dedicated, passionate team of teachers, therapists, and behavior intervention specialists. The Empower staff comes to work daily determined to make a difference by learning about students and engaging them through academics, through listening, validating and talking, through laughter, through play and through tears. Our first and very important focus is cultivating positive relationships with every student in order to build trust, safety, confidence, and the feeling of importance that may lead students to discover their strengths, their abilities and grow their desire to learn, care about themselves and utilize skills to making safe and positive choices to function daily to their best ability.
Iman Degano
Special Ed Coordinator
Empower Academy
619.593.5211