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Empowerment Through Student Agency: Storytelling for a Better World

Empathy to Impact Podcast
By Scott Jamieson
10-Sep-25

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Hosted by Scott Jamieson, this transformative podcast with nearly 50 episodes, provides listeners with direct access to student changemakers around the world. Enjoy the perspective of these young leaders on sustainable development, wellbeing, community partnerships, and the compassion, connection, courage, and understanding needed to find joy and meaning in shaping a better self and world.

Guiding Question:

How might we empower our students, beyond personal projects, to have a greater say in their learning through increased student agency?

On this episode, I meet Maria Bella, a high school student from Lincoln Community School in Accra, Ghana. As part of her studies, Maria Bella learned about child trafficking, and child labor, a complex issue that impacts her local community. She is passionate about humanitarian work, and chose to dedicate her work for her personal project to creating a children’s book to educate local children about this important issue. Join me, as we explore her journey to becoming a published author and shall she use this opportunity to further her learning as a humanitarian and set her sites on a potential career path.

Key Takeaways:

Student agency and the importance of learning experiences, like personal projects, to create opportunities for students to explore different interests outside of the curriculum.

Raising awareness of complex issues, like child labor, and child trafficking, that are difficult topics to navigate, but important to understand for even our youngest learners in school.

Turning learning, research, storytelling, and navigating the publishing process into a children’s book to educate children in our community.

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Scott Jamieson, the host of the Empathy to Impact podcast and producer, is a global collaboration lead, facilitator, coach, and Co-Director of Future Now: Student Leadership. Scott's journey, marked by rich personal experiences and a passion for active and meaningful education, makes him a key figure in advancing the Inspire Citizens' mission to foster empathy, awareness, and actionable learning.

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