For the past 25 years, Empowering Writers has transformed K-8 writing instruction by providing teachers with the necessary knowledge, tools and skills to teach writing successfully. We’ve taught over 100,000 teachers how to improve student writing. Additionally, we continue to adapt our approach and teacher support to meet the changing needs in your classrooms and school districts.
Empowering Writers provides everything your teachers need to teach writing well, improve student performance, raise test scores, maximize instruction time, and meet state standards.
We start the year with our Literacy Launch, designed to capitalize on the writing/reading connection. Empowering Writers gives teachers the instructional tools they need to confidently teach writing, then prepare students for state assessments. The Literacy Launch empowers teachers to help students develop the foundational writing skills needed to strengthen their writing, strategic reading, and ability to effectively respond to text. With the Literacy Launch, instructional time is maximized as teachers link reading and writing development whenever and wherever students are interacting with text…throughout the school year and across all content areas.
Professional Development Sessions are brimming with practical information for writing teachers, time to process and apply new learning, discussion time with colleagues, and engaging activities that help the lessons stick. Flexible timing and duration ensure workshops meet the needs of your teachers and the realities of your PD schedule.
Teacher HUB is our online resource that gives your writing teachers anytime access to everything they need for the school year. From lesson plans, pacing guides, rubrics and done-for-you PowerPoint presentations, to animated lessons and virtual field trips that keep students engaged, the HUB gives teachers the tools and training to teach writing well. The HUB platform is fully integrated with your district's LMS platform allowing teachers and students to assign and access resources within their digital classrooms.
Empowering Writers is a proven methodology - created by teachers, for teachers - that gives your teachers the knowledge, skills, instructional strategies, support and confidence to dramatically improve students’ writing abilities and reading comprehension.