Carla Thio is currently a master teacher at the Renert School. She has been a classroom teacher for 23 years in Calgary, Alberta. Her first experience with Empowering Writers was in her first year of teaching at Rundle College School where she became the go-to person for teaching writing. Her students are proof that Empowering Writers yields success. Students arrive to her class excited to write but more importantly confident in writing.
"Rundle College has received the Garfield Weston Award for excellence in Language Arts. We were recognized by the province for having outstanding Language Arts results that were consistent for a period over 5 years. Again, this is all because of the success we have with Empowering Writers approach to writing instruction"
Rundle College Grade 6 English Language Arts
Achievement Multi-Year Reports
| 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | |
| Rundle College Elementary -Writing | |||||
| Acceptable Standard | 98.1% | 98.2% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Standard of Excellence | 13% | 23% | 34% | 53% | 58.9% |
| Below Acceptable Standard | 1.9% | 1.8% | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Province of Alberta - Writing | |||||
| Acceptable Standard | 90.9% | 91.4% | 91% | 90.9% | 81.9% |
| Standard of Excellence | 13.1% | 12% | 13% | 11.7% | 17.6% |
| Below Acceptable Standard | 8.1% | 8.6% | 9% | 8.1% | 18.1% |
Carla has been a trainer with Empowering Writers since 2014.