Webinars

Explore Updated Spanish-Language Resources

These webinars will provide a detailed overview of the Empowering Writers Hub, highlighting key features and how to access Spanish-language resources.

Video 1 - We’ll also take a closer look at Unit 1, comparing the Spanish version to the English counterpart. The video concludes with a comparison of the Empowering Writers unit assessments to state assessments, illustrating their alignment in terms of language and format.

Video 2 - Highlights three features of EW’s Editing & Revising Unit 1 for grades 3 & 4.

Reviewing the Outline
Choosing the Best Resources
Adapting Lessons to Your Students’ Needs

Constructed Response Series

Constructed Response tasks provide a perfect opportunity to make a tighter reading-writing connection! But you may be asking, “Am I equipped with everything I need to effectively teach the process?”

Empowering Assessment

Watch as EW Founder and CEO Dea Auray reviews Empowering Writers strategies to achieve literacy success, as well as tools that students use to create rich responses.

Learn tips for teachers who are looking for ways to be sure their students are ready for testing.

Using Data to Inform Instruction

Join us as Dea Auray and Jennifer Seaton analyze skills evident in student written responses and identify specific lessons and techniques that will ensure continuous improvement through the school year.

Power of a Vertically Aligned Writing Curriculum

Join Us as Diane Lazar and Dea Auray discuss the benefits of vertical alignment from smaller gaps in learning to greater opportunities in teacher engagement. Dive into strategy examples with the EW team, showing growth from Kindergarten through Middle School.

A Sentence-a-Day K-2 Webinar

Join Diane Lazar in introducing A Sentence a Day - for K-2 teachers, coaches and curriculum leaders. Through a daily routine, learn how to develop basic sentence structure to impact student writing.

How to Best Use Your Reading Curriculum to Teach Sentence Structure and Text Comprehension

This dynamic webinar is sure to help you make the most of your reading curriculum! Guide your students to understand text at the sentence level through syntax instruction while focusing on genre structure to aid with comprehension. We will investigate practical ways to build these connections through explicit instruction.

Empowering Your Reading Adoption

Watch as EW Founder and CEO Dea Auray demonstrates how reading experiences that are full of engaging content and rich language can create ample opportunity to weave in your writing instruction.

Also, check out our article "Integrating Writing with Your Reading Adoption" for more helpful information to achieve literacy success.

Actionable Feedback

In this webinar learn the difference between feedback and actionable feedback based on skills taught. Look at student work and determine the strengths and weaknesses and the type of feedback that students can use to really improve their writing. Use the Empowering Writers Rubric to assess student work and determine areas of focus.

Constructed Response Webinar

Join Us as Diane Lazar and Jennifer Seaton reveal to us how consistency, explicit instruction, and foundational skills are the core of what our students need to learn how to respond in writing. Learn several strategies EW teachers use to empower effective responses so students can answer the prompt and respond to what they read.

Writing Across Content Areas

Join Us as Diane Lazar and Dea Auray shared several EW examples in multiple grades showing how our EW methodology, foundational skills and strategies, easily move into other content areas supporting student instruction, thinking, learning and reflection.

Planning and Pacing

In this webinar, understand how the lessons progress and utilizing of planning and pacing tools simplifies the implementation.

These quick informative webinars address our most frequently asked questions and “hot topics”.

Tune in as our instructional team presents new content, provides navigational tips, examines the power of skill work and actionable feedback.