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About Us

We were created by dedicated educators and are committed to teaching you how to improve student writing.

Made by Teachers, for Teachers.

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For the past 25 years, Empowering Writers has transformed K-8 writing instruction and helped raise student test scores against state standards, in schools across the country. We've taught over 100,000 teachers how to improve student writing by providing the necessary knowledge, training and skills to teach writing successfully.

Empowering Writers is a proven methodology for writing instruction- designed by teachers, for teachers - that gives K-8 teachers the tools, instructional strategies, and confidence to dramatically improve students' writing abilities and reading comprehension.

Our Team

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Dea Paoletta Auray

Author, CEO, and Founder of EW

Kathy

Kathy Howell

Regional Training Coordinator

Terilynn

Terilynn Anderson

Midwest Sales Rep, Trainer, and Coach

Barb

Barbara Keiser

Trainer and Coach

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Sharon Giardina

Vice President of Operations

April

April Dykes

District Service Director

Laura

Laura Thomas

Regional Sales Rep, Trainer, and Coach

Sherrie

Sherrie Berry

Trainer and Coach

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Jennifer Seaton

Director of Learning and Development

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Diane Lazar

Director of Training and Education

Nicole

Nicole Pegan

South Carolina Sales Rep, Trainer, and Coach

Carla

Carla Thio

Trainer, Coach, and Canada Sales Rep

A Few Of Our Partners

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What Educators are Saying

Last year was my first year to teach 6th grade ELA. I was very worried about teaching writing. EmpoweringWriters' lessons were so fun and engaging that the students gained confidence in their writing skills (just like I did)! When I finally got to see the results of the ACT Aspire test I was literally in tears. Some of my lowest achieving students scored above the 90th percentile in writing!"

Tricia S.
Grade 6 Teacher (Arkansas)

We are very pleased! Both our teachers and students have worked so hard and we have seen tremendous growth. EW has given us an amazing platform from which we are ready to grow from! After year 1 of implementation and coaching we went from 36% to 70% passing."

Marina M.
Instructional Coach (Texas)

As a small private school, choosing the appropriate writing curriculum was imperative. Empowering Writers is unique in that it is systematic and explicit, while also allowing for teacher choice and flexibility. With this writing curriculum, our teachers can incorporate the systematic writing process across content areas.

Our teachers and students are more confident in writing than ever, because they have found a program that gives a common language and approach to writing that can be used in all subjects. We are so happy to have found Empowering Writers!

Jaclyn
Curriculum Coordinator

I thought it was very informative, and actually plan to use the information gained for my students in the next two weeks. At the end of the PD, Barbara modeled using the Comparison Grid for a response to multiple texts.

Starting tomorrow, and leading up to right before the break, students will be following the steps to write a 5 paragraph informative essay to compare and contrast the way two authors convey the same main idea. The Empowering Writers curriculum will help students better analyze a prompt and identify key evidence!

Amber W.
English Teacher