school coaching
Transformative Education for Your Students and Staff
"After collaborating with your staff, I felt very confident in our plan and
was so happy to see it executed faithfully.
Your group clearly has the expertise and spirit to work across all types of educational settings to help people improve their practice."
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Student Success Coach
Midtown High School, Atlanta, GA
Your students need support.​​
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Is your school working to better meet the needs of your increasing population of neurodivergent students?
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Are your teachers losing valuable time chasing down missing assignments and getting unfocused classes back on track?
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Are your students brilliant yet floundering with chaotic backpacks, long lists of missed assignments, and no idea how to get started on big projects?
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Empower is here to help!
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We offer personalized professional learning and student coaching packages aligned with your school's mission and values designed to achieve your instructional goals.
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We provide:
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comprehensive student academic coaching to help your students gain the academic and executive functioning skills they need for school, college, and career success
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engaging, research-based, and transformative professional development for teachers, like our Student Success training that equips teachers with impactful, easy-to-implement strategies targeting the skills your students need most, as determined by teacher surveys and classroom visits
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ADHD and neurodivergence trainings for staff meetings so teachers are prepared to support students with unique brains
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curriculum development, such as our executive functioning curriculum tailored to help your students build skills in planning, organization, self-advocacy, and study-skills
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"I really enjoyed the discussion method used in breakout sessions;
one of the best PDs we've had."
- Teacher, Midtown High School
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"This has been an amazing complement to our school improvement plan!"
- Instructional Coach, Beacon Hill Middle School
Our values are at the core of everything we do.
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Empowerment. We deeply believe in empowering students with strategies that honor their personal agency and build confidence and self-efficacy.
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Peace. Students learn best when they feel safe and supported, and teachers learn best when they get support rather than an endless list of more tasks to do. Our programs are designed to help people learn in a stress-free way.
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Thoughtfulness. No one-size-fits-all approaches here! We will collaborate with you to truly understand your school's culture and your student's unique needs so that they can thrive. Our programs are thoughtful and personalized to your school.
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Why Empower?
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Our team has a combined 50 years of teaching and coaching experience encompassing many different content areas, including teaching experience in science, English, Spanish, social studies, physical education, gifted, special education, ADHD, dyslexia, autism, and dyscalculia.
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We have worked directly with hundreds of students & families over the past 7 years and have directly seen the executive functioning challenges they face as well as what methods are most effective in helping them grow.
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We have significant experience in talking with parents and understand the knowledge and strategies they want to be able to help their students thrive at school.
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Our values of empowerment, peace, and thoughtfulness will contribute to our development of a customized and comprehensive plan that is personalized to your school’s needs and grounded in educational research and our extensive educational and coaching experience.
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As former teachers ourselves, we understand what makes professional development meaningful & impactful for teachers and will incorporate this into our approach.
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We are skilled coaches and highly invested in facilitating positive change for your students, teachers, and community.