Results
"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, Taylor Intermediate School.
A Few of Our Partners
Praise from Principals
We have ABSOLUTELY seen an improvement in reading comprehension. Students are reading for purpose. They are looking for answers, or at least clues, using a format they know will provide results, they just have to unlock the truth in front of them.
Brian Delaney
Principal (Massachusetts)
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 (Texas)
See Our Success in Action
"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.
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
“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
“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
“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.