How it Started

The Seven Steps program was created by Jen McVeity, melding her expertise as an author, a classroom teacher and her passion for gifted education.

While working with gifted writers, she discovered that (in spite of their immense talent) they kept making similar writing errors over and over again. She set out to track the most frequent errors. There were seven of them. 

For over two years, she used her author training and skills to experiment with ways to 'cure' the mistakes. The Seven Steps program began when she discovered the 'chunking' method.  Breaking down writing into simple stages meant children were suddenly leaping ahead in their skills - and enjoyment - of writing.

Like all great techniques, the Seven Steps to Writing Success has proved to work with ALL kids, not just gifted children. In fact one school has just claimed that 18 months after implementing the Seven Steps, their state tests have revealed that over 25% of their grade 5 students were 'off the scale'. The Seven Steps program is now in over 850 schools.

However, Jen is passionate about empowering parents and their children to learn. Parent are the first and most effective teachers of their children. So she has persuaded us to bring the Seven Steps to parents. We try to particularly help parents of home school and gifted children - but paradoxically (and delightfully) the program has achieved outstanding results amongst children with learning difficulties and dyslexia. This really is a revolutionary concept that works at all levels.

Jen hopes that the program will not only help your children learn faster and become more powerful writers, but that parents and children alike will have more fun whilst learning together.