Curious about Empowered? Come Experience It! 💚

Discover what makes Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center different by giving your child an opportunity to experience our personalized, engaging learning environment firsthand!

Choose Your Learning Experience:

☀️ Morning Experience: 8:10–11:25 a.m.

🌤️ Afternoon Experience: 11:25 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Each experience offers an opportunity to explore our learning environment as a family. Then, your learner will have the opportunity to engage in meaningful activities, and discover what learning at Empowered feels like alongside of our learners.

Limited availability: To preserve our small, personalized learning environment, each session accommodates a maximum of two visiting learners.

Before scheduling, we invite families to complete our brief Empowered Learning Experience Interest Survey.

This gives you an opportunity to share your child's strengths, interests, learning needs, and what you're seeking in an educational community.

This isn't a test or an audition. It's an opportunity for mutual discovery—to help your family and our team explore whether Empowered might be the right fit.

Ready to experience Empowered? 💚

💚 START THE SHADOW DAY INTEREST SURVEY

Not quite ready to reach out?

That's perfectly okay.

Choosing an educational community is an important decision, and you may want to explore Empowered a little more before starting a conversation.

I've recorded a Family Information Presentation that walks through our educational philosophy, learning model, programs, and what families can expect at Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center.

Take your time exploring. When you're ready, I'd love to learn about your learner.

🌳 Learning Experiences Designed Around Your Learner

A detailed daily schedule for the Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center, featuring activity times, descriptions, and visuals, with sections on learning, movement breaks, lunch, collaboration, reflection, and clean-up, along with informational notes and graphics.

🌿 Full-Time Program

A personalized learning community designed for learners in grades 1–6.

Our full-time program blends individualized reading and math instruction with collaborative, project-based learning in STEAM and Social Studies, creative exploration, daily movement, and meaningful relationships. Learners also enjoy weekly music enrichment designed to inspire creativity, confidence, and self-expression.

Every day is intentionally designed to help learners build confidence, develop strong academic skills, and discover the joy of learning in a supportive community where they are known, valued, challenged, and supported.

A detailed schedule for the Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center's hybrid program, listing activities from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM, including arrival, community connection, collaboration, creative activities, and reflection, with descriptions of each. It also features information about Friday field adventures, family partnership, and notes about program operations.

🌎 Hybrid Program

A flexible learning partnership for families of learners in grades 7–8 seeking the best of home education and community-based learning.

Our hybrid program combines at-home personalized reading and math with engaging, in-person experiences that emphasize collaboration, creativity, hands-on learning, and meaningful social connection. STEAM and Social Studies are integrated through project-based learning experiences that encourage critical thinking, curiosity, and teamwork.

Learners also enjoy weekly music enrichment designed to inspire creativity, confidence, and self-expression. With a consistent weekly rhythm and a strong partnership between families and guides, learners are empowered to grow academically, socially, and emotionally in a community where they are known, valued, challenged, and supported.

Poster promoting real-world learning activities available at Tampa Bay Adventures, Museum of Science, Aquarium, Farms & Gardens, Library, and Community in Action, with colorful graphics and photos of children and adults engaging in educational and outdoor activities.

At Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center, learning doesn't stop at the classroom door.

On Fridays, our learners explore museums, parks, libraries, local businesses, nature preserves, community organizations, and hands-on STEM experiences throughout the Tampa Bay area. Every adventure is intentionally selected to spark curiosity, deepen learning, build meaningful connections, and help learners see how their knowledge can make a positive impact in the world around them.

Because sometimes the most unforgettable classroom has no walls at all.

A colorful team introduction poster featuring five diverse women with their names and titles: Karena, Lead Guide; Maryse, STEM Coordinator; Lynda, Assistant Guide; Arwen, Assistant Guide; Jarred, music program coordinator and educator. It highlights their roles in empowering learners through various educational programs, emphasizes team values like caring, growth, inspiration, connection, and empowerment, and includes decorative leaves and hearts.

Behind every great learning community is a team that believes every learner deserves to be known, valued, challenged, and supported.

At Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center, we're more than educators—we're mentors, creators, musicians, artists, problem-solvers, and lifelong learners. Together, we're committed to building a joyful learning community where curiosity is celebrated, strengths are nurtured, meaningful relationships are formed, and every learner is empowered to thrive.

We're excited to meet your family and begin this journey together.

If the Empowered G.O.A.L.S. Center vision resonates with your family, I'd love to learn more about your learner.

Whether we connect virtually or meet in person, our Discovery Visits are relaxed, personalized conversations designed to answer your questions while learning about your child's strengths, interests, and educational goals.

No pressure.

No commitment.

Just a conversation.

🌳 Let's Continue the Conversation.