Addressing the Common Core and TEKS Standards

How Empowering Writers Addresses the Common Core State Standards in Writing

Now, more than ever, with the advent of the Common Core State Standards, teachers are looking for practical solutions on how to ‘do it all’ in regard to writing instruction.   Learn more

 

How Empowering Writers Addresses TEKS Standards and STAAR Requirements

Empowering Writers genre-specific resources and professional development provide Texas teachers with everything they need to improve student writing.   Learn more

Case Studies

  • Hyman Fine Elementary Case Study

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    Click here to download a PDF version of the case study Elementary School Improves State Test Scores by 26% using Empowering Writers “This training ...
    21st June 2012
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  • Title One Case Study

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    This case study looks at 35 Title One schools from Houston ISD in Texas and 29 Title One schools in Richland ...
    21st June 2012
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Latest Articles

  • Interdisciplinary Opportunities

    Have a look at this terrific article "In Common Core, Teachers See Interdisciplinary Opportunities" from Education Week, outlining some of the reasons why cross subject thematic units are one of the best vehicles for addressing the Common Core - the same approach we at EW have taken in our new Essential Guides ...
    19th March 2013
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  • Writing Scores Increase with Professional Development

    November 16, 2011 – How did elementary schools in South Carolina’s Richland 1 School District achieve double-digit improvement in writing scores? With the help of Empowering Writers, K-8 provider of Professional Development for the instruction of writing, Richland 1 realized an 11% increase. What the numbers alone do not reveal is ...
    16th November 2011
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