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Why Empowering Writers?

Clear Format & Skill-Focused Instruction

  •  Provides explicit, scaffolded, and vertically aligned K–8 instruction

  • Focuses on the salient features of all genres and the author’s purpose

  • Offers approachable lessons grounded in what real readers and writers do

  • Delivers clear, skill-focused instruction that fits real classroom time constraints

Writing Broken Into Teachable Components

  • Deconstructs writing into foundational and discrete skills
  • Students learn to analyze, annotate, generate, and respond to texts
  • Our method uses predictable routines and classroom modeling to strengthen writing across classrooms
  • Clarity across genres ensures consistent writing growth

Structure, Clarity & Shared Language

  • Provides structure and a shared instructional language

  • Helps teachers connect instruction directly to specific writing skills

  • Strengthens student writing across classrooms through consistent expectations

  • Delivers the essential “how to” for teaching writing effectively

Practical Materials & Exceptional Support

  • Classroom-ready practical materials designed for immediate impact

  • Exceptional professional development rooted in real instructional needs

  • Customer support educators consistently describe as unmatched

We partner with school systems and educators, working alongside leaders and teachers to implement aligned professional development and create sustainable writing practices that lead to measurable student growth.

What Sets Us Apart

Research-based & Systemic

Rooted in the science of reading and writing, our approach builds consistent, resource backed evidence-aligned instruction across all grade levels.

Scalable & Vertically Aligned

Whether you’re a single school or an entire district, EW builds a vertically aligned writing ecosystem — from K-8 foundational instruction to grade-level genre work — using resources that grow with your teachers and students.

Consulting & Coaching Mindset

In addition to dynamic workshops, we collaborate with you to build long-term strategy, implement coaching structures, and support sustained teacher growth.

Results Driven

With data from partner campuses, we help move the needle on student writing achievement and teacher capacity.

How We Work

Discovery & Planning

We begin with a clear diagnostic of your writing culture, instructional practices, student work, professional learning and resource needs.

Strategic Design

Together we create a roadmap: curriculum alignment, writing frameworks, coaching cycles,  leadership supports, and monitoring tools.

Implementation

Our team of coaches delivers ongoing professional learning, models instruction, supports teacher practice, and builds leadership capacity — all grounded in EW’s comprehensive resources.

Measurement & Refinement

We monitor progress through student samples, teacher observation, assessments and feedback loops, refining the approach as we go to ensure sustained gains.

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    • Our Impact

    We saw tremendous growth in our writing scores on my campus, but more importantly, we saw great individual growth for our students.

    Keith Thompson
    Principal

    Empowering Writers is an amazing program; it is one of the few methodologies I have used in my 28 years of teaching, which I can implement immediately. The foundation for teaching students how to write is presented in an easy to follow format, thus helping students gain confidence from the start. Students excited about writing equals Empowering Writers.

    Jan Rampey
    5th Grade Teacher

    Everything was helpful! Empowering Writers has given me more confidence in teaching writing. The teacher videos are clear and help me anticipate what my students may struggle with.

    Millie
    A 4th Grade Teacher, Texas

    "We’ve had great success, and EW resources and coaching took us to that level!” 

     

    Over the past several years, there’s been notable success in the decision to offer ongoing  professional learning throughout the year versus providing a full day or two of training at the beginning of the school year. These decisions to offer coaching addressed a number of drawbacks  of the one-and-done training scenario. 

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    Data for schools that have shown gain as a result of this type of professional  learning with Empowering Writers:

     

    Palo Pinto Elementary, Palo Pinto ISD
    3-year contract with EW Hub resource, 5 Days of Coaching, and Virtual PD 

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    “I use Empowering Writers for much of my literacy instruction - the reading passages for annotation and comprehension as well as sources for constructed and extended response. We’ve had great success, and EW resources and
    coaching took us to that level!” 

    Glenda Valencia, teacher, Palo Pinto ISD

    Richard E. Cavazos Elementary, Killeen ISD

    EW Hub Resource, 16 days of coaching from 21-22 school year to 23-24 school year, and onsite District PD

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    “As campus principal, I set out to develop a plan to support literacy and, in particular, writing on our campus. This  required a long-term vision for systemic implementation. The vision was to have a visible thread of literacy alignment  from classroom to classroom and grade level to grade level, as evidenced by anchor charts, organizers, vocabulary, and  sentence starters that were used in classrooms by both teachers and students.

    Through a strategic and flexible coaching  process with our EW trainer over the past 2.5 years, we’ve seen the impact of high-quality instruction in our teacher  and student artifacts and, most importantly, begun developing a shared campus vision for writing that has true teacher buy-in.” 

    Yanitze, Oquendo, Principal, Richard E. Cavazos Elementary 

    T.W. Ogg Elementary, Brazosport ISD

    EW Hub Resource, 6 days of coaching from 22-23 school year to 23-24 school year, and onsite District PD

    CaseStudy 8.063

    “At Ogg, we’ve had tremendous growth in our writing performance, and I have no doubt it has been due to the ongoing training and coaching we’ve received from Empowering Writers.” 

    Julia Manzanares, Teacher, T.W. Ogg Elementary 

    Teachers and principals alike understand and appreciate the value of ongoing  professional support through coaching. While there’s no overnight solution to  increased achievement, a plan for steady gain in understanding key concepts and  processes can be a critical component.

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