Date	Event	Location
July 2008 - June 2009	Level I Certification EmPOWER course   Two Level I Certification courses will be offered, beginning in July and continuing through the school year.  Enrollment is open to general education teachers in all grades that teach expository writing.    NOTE: Special education teachers and literacy specialists who do not have primary teaching positions within a classroom (i.e., are not fully in charge of developing day-to-day curriculum) must enroll with a general education teammate with whom they co-teach on a regular basis OR must currently co-teach with a general educator who has successfully completed a full EmPOWER course. Our intention is not to be exclusive of professionals who wish to be trained; rather it is to shape instructional practice within the setting that most frequently demands writing:  the classroom.  In addition, we aim to support collaboration between general and special educators so that the same instructional methods can be used across disciplines, thereby supporting students to transfer skills across settings.  Most importantly, our research and experience shows that instruction situated in the classroom has the greatest effect on improving student performance in writing. click here for information and registration form	Metro-west Boston
July 2008 - June 2009	Level I Certification EmPOWER course   Mendon-Upton Middle School.  Closed training to extend through the 2008/2009 academic year.	Mendon, MA
7/31/08	You can teach a kid to read, but how do you teach 'm to write?    Full-day workshop for Wilson Language Systems	Oxford, MA
8/12/08	One-day Overview of the EmPOWER Method for Teaching Expository Writing   Closed training for the East Bridgewater Middle School	East Bridgewater, MA
Aug. 2008 - June 2009	Full year training in EmPOWER: A method for teaching expository writing   The MATCH School.  Closed training to extend through the 2008/2009 academic year	Boston, MA
Aug 2008 - June 2009	Full year training in EmPOWER: A method for teaching expository writing   Portland Public School District	Portland, OR
8/19 and 8/20/08	Level I Certification EmPOWER course, Part I   The Summit School	Edgewater, MD
Aug. 2008 - June 2009	Full year training in EmPOWER: A method for teaching expository writing   Ann Arbor School District	Ann Arbor, MI
9/2/08	One Day Overview of the EmPOWER Method for Teaching Expository Writing   Village Community School	New York, NY
9/25/08	One-day Overview of the EmPOWER Method for Teaching Expository Writing   The Reading Institute	Williamstown, MA
10/3/08	Methods for Helping Students Take Control of their Writing   Full-day workshop for the Nebraska Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention	Kearney, NE
Oct. 2008 - June, 2009	Level I Certification EmPOWER course   South Shore Educational Collaborative.  Contact 781-749-7518 or Lauren Clark at lClark@ssec.org for registration information.   NOTE: Special education teachers and literacy specialists who do not have primary teaching positions within a classroom (i.e., are not fully in charge of developing day-to-day curriculum) must enroll with a general education teammate with whom they co-teach on a regular basis OR must currently co-teach with a general educator who has successfully completed a full EmPOWER course. Our intention is not to be exclusive of professionals who wish to be trained; rather it is to shape instructional practice within the setting that most frequently demands writing:  the classroom.  In addition, we aim to support collaboration between general and special educators so that the same instructional methods can be used across disciplines, thereby supporting students to transfer skills across settings.  Most importantly, our research and experience shows that instruction situated in the classroom has the greatest effect on improving student performance in writing.	Hingham, MA
Oct. 2008 - June, 2009	EmPOWER in the History Classroom: Level I Certification course for middle and high school history teachers   South Shore Educational Collaborative.  Contact 781-749-7518 or Lauren Clark at lClark@ssec.org for registration information.	Hingham, MA
11/8/08	Spoken and written language 101: Guiding principles that promote success in school.   Full-day Symposium with Drs. Anthony Bashir and Bonnie Singer for The Summit School   Contact The Summit School to register.  410-798-0005 or info@thesummitschool.org.	Edgewater, MD