Teacher empowerment is community empowerment.

Teachers are increasingly scared to push back against tightening state controls, which compel some to be silenced and censored. Additionally, for many educators, there is a lack of critical knowledge regarding the intersection of education, politics, and state control which is creating this silencing effect.

In Georgia, for example, the passing of HB1084 which attempts to restrict the breadth and scope of public education in Georgia through censorship using the nebulous language of "divisive concepts". This overreach of the governing few is a pattern that is replicated from state-to-state all over the nation.

This initiative seeks to promote educator and community empowerment in three ways: 

1. Encourage educators to develop video-shorts as mini "teach-ins" for fellow educators and community members that clearly describe the efforts to curtail free speech within schools and surrounding communities, to be shared and spread via social media platforms.

2. Direct instruction to educators that provides examples and support of how to teach within the law without giving up personal freedoms. This could be done as YouTube exemplars of how to use state standards as guides for teacher empowerment.

3. Development and distribution of an empowerment template for educators. A one page "map" to store legal resources, language guides, & an organizational plan for grassroots effort.