Empower Learning Strategies

The Empower Learning Strategies is a Grade 9 course for students who have at least an IEP or a learning disability. Notable teachers who teach Empower in high school include Christine Chan and Paul Monaghan.

There are five strategies the students can learn in Empower. Their names are Sounding Out, Rhyming, Peeling Off, Vowel Alert and Spy. Starting in season 8 week 6, BATC decided to do Empower for contestants born after Belinda Bencic.

Sounding Out Strategy
Students will try to know the word by knowing it first, then blending it, then say the word. Notable names that might need Sounding Out Strategy include most Russian/Ukrainian surnames.

Rhyming Strategy
Students will try to find a word in the Rhyming Keyword Bank that rhymes with the word that is in bold. Notable names that are acceptable with Rhyming include Garbine Muguruza's first name (use car and vine), Helio Castroneves' surname (use has, go, he and yes).

Notable students

 * Cho Nin Aye
 * Cameron Marshall
 * Christeena Hill
 * Rhea Bergeron
 * James Penney