About Us

Recognizing that strong writing skills are a critical part of standards evaluations, and feeling the responsibility of preparing students for statewide testing, Dea worked with her colleague/mentor to develop a solid writing curriculum that they used, tested and enhanced in their own classrooms.  Within a few years, this new writing methodology led to a 45-point increase in state writing scores, and had created a classroom bursting with enthusiastic young writers. That's how Empowering Writers came to be.

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.