Breawna Power Eaton

For Breawna teaching literacy skills is about empowering people of all ages to clearly communicate their ideas to a particular audience for a specific purpose. Whether teaching literature or writing, she aims for students to learn how to read like a writer, simultaneously deciphering what writers are saying (content) and what they are doing stylistically, rhetorically, and mechanically to ensure readers understand. Breawna helps students learn how writers strategically use diction and style to elicit their desired response and then incorporate these writing tools into their own unique writing approach. The ideal course, in her view, blends creative and academic writing, as both forms can be used to enhance each other.

Breawna began teaching English as a high school teacher in 2004. Ever since, she has taught and created curriculum at traditional and project-based schools, both in-person and online. Living in and teaching English in Japan, both to classes and individual students of all ages, gave her first-hand experience in being a language-learner and a teacher to those admirably learning English as a second (or third or fourth) language. In addition to her work as a teacher Breawna has spent a number of years as a freelance journalist, writing personal essays, interviews, and features for a range of publications. Through this work she has come to the view that true writing begins in revision.