EmPOWER By: Michiko Hattori & Erica Landry Overview of Grant Building upon previous grant including 15 educators across several schools, including BHS 8 participants across 3 Brookline schools EmPOWER certification 1 week long workshop 5 follow-up sessions Portfolio Online course work Implementation in schools Benefits of Grant Improve collaboration with colleagues Continue to support our excellence in teaching Opportunity to implement Brooklines core values Aligns with benchmarks in core curriculum Build on literacy initiative currently being established in Brookline Allow us to implement structured writing process in district What is EMPOWER? Research based expository writing program Teaches Important Components of the Writing Process: Planning Drafting Sharing Revising Evaluating Publishing Other Benefits of EmPOWER Provides common language and strategies Used across curriculum areas Helps students from K-adulthood learn to: Comprehend text and oral language Develop executive functioning: Planning Organizing Managing EmPOWER looks like: Collaboration Brain frames Comprehension development: reading and listening Individual, small group and whole class lessons Differentiated instruction Brainframes: Work samples: EmPOWER in Social Thinking Overall Experience Positive! Already seeing progress in students comprehension and organization Teachers are adopting the language and strategies in their classes Carryover between grades and specialists Next Steps: Increase opportunities to teach across grades Continue implementing across grades and curriculum each year Acknowledgements Members of the Brookline Education Foundation Thank you for this invaluable opportunity Dr. Vanessa Beauchaine & John Badger Thank you for your trust and support EmPOWER Grant Participants (Past & Present): Thank you all for being invested colleagues Hannah Kimball Allison Sokoloff Jill Arnold Gretchen Adams Kerrilyn McCarthy Erica Birnbaum Laura Vish Anna MacGiver Angela Galanopoulos Among others