One Program. Every Classroom.
Ready to Teach.
EmpowerLit brings writing instruction, SEL, and student voice together through eight sequential K–12 themes—ready to teach and flexible enough to start anytime.
Ready. Set. Teach. Every lesson comes fully prepared, so teachers and substitutes can open it and start teaching right away.
See How It Works in 5 Minutes
Schools don’t need another program to implement.
Schools are being asked to strengthen writing, support student well-being, build school culture, and reduce the burden on teachers—all at the same time.
EmpowerLit brings those priorities together into one connected system.
- Teacher Guides
- Classroom Slides
- Student Handouts
- Extension Activities
- Daily Sparks
- Mentor Texts & Videos
- Student Publishing Opportunity
Everything teachers need. Ready to teach.
See EmpowerLit Through Their Eyes.
Hear directly from teachers and students about their experience with EmpowerLit Schools.
Eight Themes. Four Weeks Each. K–12.
Sequential Themes
Every school begins with Belonging and follows the same eight-theme progression in order.
Weekly Lessons
Teachers move through each theme’s four weekly lessons at a pace that works for their classrooms.
Grade Bands
K–2, Grades 3–5, Grades 6–8, and Grades 9–12 receive developmentally appropriate instruction.
Student Voice
Students write, discuss, reflect, and have opportunities to publish authentic work.
Writing That Grows With Students
Students build oral language, move from drawing to writing, and begin telling stories and expressing ideas with simple reasons.
Students organize their writing, add purposeful details, develop their ideas, and support their thinking with reasons and examples.
Students develop a personal perspective, make claims, elaborate purposefully, and revise their writing for clarity and meaning.
Students write analytically and argumentatively, support claims with evidence-based reasoning, develop narrative craft and voice, and refine their writing through intentional revision.
Built for the People Leading the Work
Give teachers something they can actually use—ready-to-teach lessons that bring writing, SEL, and school culture together while creating consistency across classrooms.
Bring a consistent K–12 approach to writing and SEL, with developmentally appropriate instruction, a clear weekly progression and one connected K–12 learning pathway.
One Platform. One Connected Schoolwide Experience.
Literacy is the Core
Students build writing and literacy skills through meaningful reading, discussion, reflection, and authentic writing connected to their lives.
SEL is the Throughline
Belonging, confidence, resilience, empathy, and character give students meaningful things to think, discuss, and write about.
Authentic Student Publishing
Students don't simply complete assignments. Through Your Story Matters, their writing can reach a real audience—giving students a meaningful reason to write.
Flexible, Consistent Implementation
Every classroom follows the same sequenced K–12 pathway while teachers retain flexibility over their weekly pacing.
Students don’t just complete writing assignments.
They write. They discuss. They reflect. They collaborate. They publish stories that matter.
Every student has a story worth telling.
Writing becomes meaningful when students know their words can reach a real audience. Through Your Story Matters, students have opportunities to submit authentic writing for publication, celebrate their voices, and see themselves as writers. Selected student work is featured in the public Your Story Matters Magazine.
Everything teachers need. One place.
Every theme includes four complete, ready-to-teach writing and literacy experiences connected to one SEL focus, with optional extensions to deepen learning. Designed so teachers can spend less time planning and more time connecting with students.
“I was thrilled when I saw that it is all grades. I presented the first lesson with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, and it went well. I appreciate the way the lesson was set up.”
East Clarendon Middle & High School
Start Every School Day With Purpose
Daily Sparks are five-minute literacy and SEL activities that help students think, write, and connect—every school day. Each grade band receives developmentally appropriate Daily Sparks designed for its students.
“You belong just by being you.”
Draw or write about someone who makes you feel loved.
A new grade-appropriate Daily Spark is included every school day as part of EmpowerLit Schools.
Explore a Complete Theme Inside EmpowerLit
Explore all four weeks of Theme 1: Belonging across every grade band and see exactly what teachers receive inside EmpowerLit Schools.
Preview the Teacher Guide, Classroom Slides, Student Handouts, Discussion & Writing Prompts, Extension Activities, and additional classroom resources exactly as teachers receive them.
Eight Themes. One Connected Progression.
Eight sequential themes. Thirty-two weeks. Start anytime. Every school begins with Belonging and progresses through the themes in order.
- 01Theme 1Belonging
- 02Theme 2Kindness
- 03Theme 3Gratitude
- 04Theme 4Identity
- 05Theme 5Goals & Growth
- 06Theme 6Courage
- 07Theme 7Resilience
- 08Theme 8Voice & Storytelling
Every child has a story worth telling.
Students have the opportunity to build confidence when they know their voice matters. EmpowerLit was created to help schools strengthen literacy through belonging, meaningful discussion, authentic writing, and student publishing — while giving teachers everything they need in one place.
What EmpowerLit is designed to offer.
Students
- Opportunities to build confidence through writing and sharing
- Regular practice reading, writing, and discussing
- Opportunities to find and share their voice
- Explore resilience through stories and reflection
- Explore empathy through discussion
Teachers
- Lessons arrive ready to teach—minimal prep
- A ready-to-teach lesson every week
- One connected platform
- A consistent classroom experience
Schools
- Shared schoolwide literacy experiences
- Support for a schoolwide writing culture
- One connected SEL progression
- Student publishing opportunities
Ready to build more confident writers?
Bring literacy, belonging, and student voice together through one connected schoolwide platform.