This collection of chapters for K-12, college and university and community based organizations present voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful empowerment practices using student centered processes inside and outside of the classroom. If we're ever going to be able to use schools as tools to help people of all ages find their ways to lives worth living and work worth doing, we will have to question the assumptions supporting the schooling status quo.  Empowering Our Students for the Future is full of the kinds of questions we need and some possible answers as well.