• Web-based software platform offers writing prompts, grammar activities, and more
• 30,000 subscribers since 2021
• Customers in all 50 US states + Canada

Memphis, TN – Write About, a web-based software platform that offers educator support in a variety of writing subjects, is excited to announce that in order to combat the ongoing impact of COVID-19, it has launched a redesigned platform with new features. These include writing prompts, skill building activities aligned with specific genres of writing, paragraph and essay writing lessons with accompanying texts, as well as professional development (PD) services.

The Write About team is especially pleased with its newest grammar check feature, which notifies students of grammatical errors in their writing and gives explanations along with correction suggestions. The feature also includes style suggestions that help improve the clarity and effectiveness of students’ writing, and helps students find the perfect words for their content via a Word Explorer and contextual thesaurus. 

Also, Write About is working on a typing proficiency component that will help enhance students’ typing speed and efficiency. Most standardized testing is shifting to more of an online based environment, so students’ ability to type proficiently will be critical in regards to their scoring and overall testing success. 

Write About is already being used by over 30,000 subscribers across the US and Canada. The software is designed to help schools develop their students into proficient writers, more effective communicators, and to strengthen their overall literacy skills.  The ultimate goal is to help close the widespread student achievement gap.

Educators are able to maximize instruction time by leveraging a library of customizable assignments, prompts, and exercises that help introduce new concepts, reinforce learned skills, and provide insights administrators can use to improve results and drive instructional practices within any curriculum.

The company owner, Nate Ollie, is a financial advisor, nonprofit leader, and tech entrepreneur from Memphis, Tennessee. As an experienced sales professional who has worked with some of the world’s largest brands, he now pursues his primary passion of mentoring and developing childhood education. Nate stepped into the tech world in June of 2021 when he acquired Write About, a K-12 education SaaS that is helping save literacy in schools across the country and closing the widespread student achievement gap.

In Spring of 2022, Nate brought on Jasmine Jackson, a long time educator and academics director, as a partner to enhance the effectiveness of the platform and to ultimately put Write About in position to positively impact more students and teachers.

Ollie invites educators, interventionists, and school administrators in the K-12 education space to become part of the Write About network. “Over the next five years,” he shares, “our aim is to have positively impacted the educational experience of 1 million students worldwide by diversifying their vocabulary and increasing their versatility in writing as it pertains to language and conventions.”

Write About’s new features are designed to promote the brand’s core values: that writing should be fun, sharing should be easy, and more writing leads to better writing. “We want to promote more student writing using an engagement environment with interesting content, powerful tools, and a safe community,” says Ollie. “We’ve created this fresh, new platform to make it even more exciting for students to become passionate about writing.”

The company helps educators to create a digital writing community for students that implements engaging content with helpful feedback and revision procedures. The curriculum teaches students to assert and defend claims, tell stories, convey experiences, educate on subjects they’ve researched, respond to literature, and more.

“These new developments will allow Write About the opportunity to directly address unfinished learning that resulted from COVID,” Ollie shares. “The new features also allow extra interventions that teachers can use to pair with established curriculum.” The team at Write About is excited about the updated platform, which will provide educators extra opportunities to further develop their pedagogical practices by utilizing the company’s professionally crafted development services.

“Our brand is focused on aiding teachers in leveraging the data from our platform to apply to their own instruction,” says Ollie. “We take a simplistic approach to address the learning needs that were revealed – and the pre-existing gaps that were magnified – during the pandemic.”

Write About has also developed a primary curriculum for parents of homeschooled students and is preparing to launch more services for this specific sector in the upcoming year.

Website: writeabout.com

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