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The Effects on Our Studentsand What We Can Do

About ItBy: Laura Richardson


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Good News!

Yes- There is actually

Food!


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Why the Joke?

Many students in poverty arrive

at school without having eaten a

decent meal since lunch (at

school) the previous day

Not having their basic needs met

can prevent these students from

being successful Can you now relate to these

students?


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Think About It

How did you feel when you weretold there was no food for you?

How did you feel knowing thatyou would have to focus onschool without a proper mealfor breakfast?

Do you think your actions inresponse to not having food

were justified? What if your students reacted the

same way?


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Quick Break

Fulfill your basic need

Get Food


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Info You Should Know

What is Poor?

Persons with income less than

that deemed sufficient to purchase

basic needs- food, shelter,clothing, and other essentials

What is Poverty?

a chronic and debilitating

condition that results from multiple

adverse synergistic risk factors and

affects the mind, body, and soul


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6 Types of Poverty

Situational

Generational

Absolute

Relative

Urban

Rural

Did you know that poverty isnt

always about money?


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Situational Poverty

generally caused by a sudden

crisis or loss and is often

temporary

Environmental disasters

Divorce

Severe health problems


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Generational Poverty

occurs with families where at

least two generations have

been born into poverty

not equipped with the tools

to move out of their

situations


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Absolute Poverty

Very rare in the U.S.

Having a scarcity of such

necessities as shelter, running

water, and food

Families have to focus on day-

to-day survival


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Relative Poverty

refers to the economic status

of a family whose income is

insufficient to meet its

societys average standard of

living


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Urban Poverty

occurs in metropolitan areas

with populations of 50,000people

deal with a complex aggregateof chronic and acute stressors

Crowding

Violence

Noise

dependent on often-inadequatelarge-city services


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Rural Poverty

occurs in nonmetropolitan areaswith populations below 50,000

More: Single-guardian households

Have less access to: Services

Support for disabilities

Quality education opportunities Issues with transition from

welfare to work due to few workforce opportunities in the area


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Four Primary Risk Factors

Afflicting Families in Poverty

Emotional and socialchallenges

Acute and chronic stressors

Cognitive lags

Health and Safety Issues

These factors have a directimpact on a childs success at

school


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Poverty Children and

Homelife

Beginning at birth, the

attachment formed between

parent and child predicts the

quality of future relationshipswith teachers and peers

Many kids in poverty form weak

or anxious attachments to theirparental units, thus impacting

their relationships with teachers


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Poverty Children and

Homelife

One study found that only 36percent of low-income parentswere involved in three or moreschool activities on a regular

basis Low-socioeconomic stats

children typically are thecaregivers to younger siblings

More stress and pressure Less time for school work and

social activities


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Two Steps We Can Take

STEP 1: Deepen StaffUnderstanding

Workshops

Learning the Facts STEP 2:Change the school culture

from pity to empathy

Look at what we do now

Make a plan

Review and Revise the Plancontinually throughout the year


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Poverty at Durant

Road Middle School Our school is 28% Free and

Reduced Lunch

However, a high number of

those students are

predominantly on Track 2

How does this make one

students environment differentfrom anothers?


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Tips on Working With

Students in Poverty The proper way to deal with

such [an emotional] deficit is

first to understand students

behavior and then to lay outclear behavioral expectations

without sarcasm or

resentment


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Students in Poverty Understand that children raise

in poverty are more likely todisplay Acting-out behaviors

Impatience and impulsivity Gaps in politeness and social graces

A more limited range of behavioralresponses

Inappropriate emotional responses Less empathy for others

misfortunes


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Students in Poverty It is much easier to condemn a

students behavior and demandthat he or she change it than it isto help the student change it

To shift your own responses toinappropriate behavior, reframeyour thinking

When students do not bring

these necessary behaviors toschool, the school must teachthem


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Students in Poverty Action Steps:

Embody Respect

Respect must be taught

Discipline through positiverelationships

Do not use sarcasm

Embed social skills

When students feel socialized and

accepted, they perform betteracademically

Be inclusive

Celebrate the positive

Utilize PBIS programs


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How to Involve The

Parents More Often than not, low-

income parents are

overstressed in trying to meet

the daily needs of theirfamilies

School must work WITH the

parents to achieve success


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How to Involve The

Parents According to Ruby Payne, a

parent does not need to cometo school to be involved

Schools must use nichemarketing in order to ensurethat parents are being toldabout school events andinvolvement in a way they canrelate and understand


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Ideas for Parent

Involvement


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Ideas for Parent

Involvement


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How to Involve The

Parents School officials must create

support communities

Schools must create links to

various groups within the

community


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How to Promote

Community

Involvement

H t P t


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How to Promote

Community

Involvement

H t P t


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How to Promote

Community

Involvement


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Phrases to Use With

Parents


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Our Timeline

to Success August 7th, 2012: Professional Development

Workshop on Poverty Learn What is Poverty?

Discuss role of parent involvement and communityinteractions with the school

October 1st, 2012: Create a Poverty Team to

review the plus/delta chart information Volunteers will be obtained at the end of the

workshop

October 8th, 2012: 1st Poverty Team Meeting Make a plan of what needs to be improved upon,

changed, or removed all together from the plan

October 15th, 2012: Follow-up ProfessionalDevelopment Poverty Interventions

Our plan: Where we have been, where we are,where we will go in the future


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Plus/Delta

What do we do well in working

with our students in poverty?

What do we need to work

improve upon in working with

our students in poverty?


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Ticket Out the Door

Our Schools Next Steps:

Create Poverty Team

Plan future professionaldevelopment

Name one thing you learnedfrom todays workshop that you

did not know before.

What is one thing you will dodifferently in your classroom dueto what you learned today?


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References

Jensen, E. (2009). Teachingwith poverty in mind: Whatbeing poor does to kids brains

and what schools can do aboutit. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Payne, R. (2004). Parent andcommunity involvement.Instructional leader, 17, 1-2, 9-12.

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