Resource Archive
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Discover FMI
Discover FMI
How the Fremont Multi-District Initiative is Transforming the Rural Student Experience
Empower Schools Annual Report 2024-25
Dive into our 2024-2025 annual report to discover how we Act in Partnership to drive student success in school and in life.
About RPEP
An easy guide to Texas Rural Pathway Excellence Partnerships
Read our explainer on Texas rural collaboratives. Visit TEA for official R-PEP resources and the most up-to-date information on current collaboratives.
Ten Years of Empowerment
Join us in celebrating a decade of empowerment. Read our retrospective magazine to discover our timeline and learn how we work with communities across the United States to advance school system innovation and policy change.
Elevating Rural Colorado
Empower Schools wrote this white paper in collaboration with key partners to capture how five years of investment is elevating rural outcomes in Colorado.
Rural Collaborative Toolkit
We built the Rural Collaborative Toolkit is to guide rural stakeholders through the planning, designing, implementation, and sustaining success phases of creating and managing rural school collaboratives, while providing valuable resources and support from technical assistance providers.
Support for Rural Colorado Schools
Bellwether’s case study, identifies promising practices from funders’ early responses to the pandemic and pinpoint the most urgent needs of rural districts today, nearly two years after schools first closed their doors.