Storytelling, Education, Empowerment
to preserve
Autonomy, Culture, Tradition
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.
Teach to Empower
(Concept)
Empowering Tomorrow’s Visionaries. Transforming Schools with Restorative Justice Practices While Revolutionizing Opportunity Through The Arts.
As a concept, Teach To Empower is seeking to revolutionize education by empowering students as active co-creators of their own learning journey. Through the concept of ‘Restorative Justice’, which has its roots and is currently being practiced by indigenous peoples around the world, we erase educational inequities and foster creativity, inclusivity and better citizenry, while reducing high school attrition rates, elevating post-secondary enrollment rates, and enhancing career readiness. We achieve this by implementing learner centered approaches, culturally diverse curricula while developing the whole child through arts education, ultimately reshaping the education landscape and empowering students to become visionary change makers. Our forward thinking vision is to work with at-risk children and young men and women in Texas. We would like to provide education programs to empower, bring autonomy and confidence to youths through storytelling and self expression.
Healing Through Storytelling
In Memory of all of our children…
On May 24th, 2022, 19 children and 2 teachers were slaughtered by a disgruntled 18 year old teenager at Robb Elementary School in the small town of Uvalde, Texas. Just over two weeks later, we traveled there to see how we could help this community heal, and this is what we saw and felt. As parents we could only imagine the devastation and felt compelled to make this film to keep the memory of the children alive. Our hearts are broken. There are no words…
We want to thank LEX Music for the beautiful soundtrack, the license of which we purchased through Envato.
American Voice
This is both an idea for a film project and also could function as a repository of video stories designed to bring together indigenous families that have been separated as a result of past persecution and the on-going racial, social and political bias and tensions that continue to resonate in Texas and elsewhere. This project is designed to inspire curiosity among a younger generation and shed light to a forgotten story that will help individuals explore their own identity and culture, and possibly reconnect them with long lost family relatives. Click on the various individuals to listen to each of their stories:
The programs and films we help produce are designed with a vision of giving voice and reconnecting all indigenous people with their own identities, heritage and traditions – ones that may have been forgotten or repressed due to social, political, or economic forces and conflicts. This will also become a global repository that archives native and tribal traditions in the form of ‘cultural film stories’ from all over the world.
WHO WE ARE
Our foundation is composed of educators, film makers and business owners with interest and experience in teaching, writing, directing, and producing cultural documentaries. By preserving individual cultural identities throughout the world, we are preserving our own long forgotten human identity.
WHAT WE DO
S.E.E. to A.C.T. empowers at-risk youth in rural and under served communities through storytelling and education and self-expression while preserving, developing, and promoting their unique cultural heritage. Understanding leads to increased positive educational and social outcomes for young individuals.
Besides also giving voice to indigenous peoples from all over the world, we are also committed to providing a voice for native and non-native children as well as young men and women. Education and Storytelling through film results in self-empowerment for our youths. Currently we have three ideas in Texas and other parts of the world: Teach to Empower, American Voice, and our newest project in Uvalde, Texas, Healing Through Storytelling.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
Maya Angelou
We Would Like to Thank the Following Enterprises and Individuals for Their Generous Contributions and Support:
Danielle Larivey, D.D.S. – San Antonio, Texas
Rod Limely – Hays Insurance – Austin, Texas
Market Place Events
The San Antonio Area Foundation
Pro Source Wholesale in Austin, Texas
Medina Electric Cooperative in Uvalde, Texas
Kimberly Downing
Pamela Zacha
Renée Schultz – Austin, Texas
Randall Collins
Home + Garden Trade Show – Austin – San Antonio – Houston
SEE to ACT is in no way affiliated with any political or religious movement or group. We are diverse individuals from all walks of life who wish to positively contribute to our world.
Contributions, large or small, are treated with gratitude and respect.
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