Planning should be focused on ensuring key dynamics and organizational mechanisms are put into play - dynamics and mechanisms that will ensure empowered behavior is properly limited and integrated. Limits are established by defining the ethics, values, intents, and possible harm. For example, ensuring that who will be empowered with have a value structure that causes self discipline to an ideal that their empowered behavior does not harm the core organization or its interests. Another example would be defining decisions that are not part of the empowered domain or function. A key part of integration is ensuring that those who would be empowered are able to provided the desired empowered behavior.
Some people are too risk aversive or lack knowledge or education to provide empowered behavior.
Once implemented, it has to be managed like any other organizational dynamic. So, I don't think teachers empower poor students, I think they abandon them. This empowerment stuff is getting me a little hot. I think that if our focus is empowerment, we loose the intent of team building, which is for greater productivity. In our school systems there is a lot of time spent on helping students get some self esteem, often at the expense of education.