1. EmPOWER By: Michiko Hattori & Erica Landry

2. 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

3. 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 district

4. What is EMPOWER?  Research based expository writing program  Teaches Important Components of the Writing Process:  Planning  Drafting  Sharing  Revising  Evaluating  Publishing

5. 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

6. EmPOWER looks like:  Collaboration  Brain frames  Comprehension development: reading and listening  Individual, small group and whole class lessons  Differentiated instruction

7. Brainframes:

8. Work samples:

10. EmPOWER in Social Thinking…

11. 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

12. Next Steps:  Increase opportunities to teach across grades  Continue implementing across grades and curriculum each year

13. 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…