By Michiko Hattori amp Erica Landry Overview of Grant Building upon previous grant including 15 educators across several schools including BHS 8 participants across 3 Brookline schools EmPOWER ID: 274177
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EmPOWER
By: Michiko Hattori
&
Erica LandrySlide2
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 schoolsSlide3
Benefits of Grant
Improve collaboration with colleagues
Continue to support our excellence in teaching
Opportunity to implement Brookline’s 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 districtSlide4
What is EMPOWER?
Research based expository writing program
Teaches Important
Components of
the
Writing
Process:
Planning
Drafting
Sharing
Revising
Evaluating
PublishingSlide5
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
ManagingSlide6
EmPOWER looks like:
Collaboration
Brain frames
Comprehension development: reading and listening
Individual, small group and whole class lessons
Differentiated instructionSlide7
Brainframes:Slide8
Work samples:Slide9Slide10
EmPOWER
in Social Thinking…Slide11
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 specialistsSlide12
Next Steps:
Increase opportunities to teach across grades
Continue implementing across grades and curriculum each yearSlide13
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…