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2. Teaching With Poverty In Mind
What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

3. Welcome Learning Outcomes Why are you interested in this book study?
What do you hope to learn from this session?
Identify….
teaching strategies to support students living in poverty
strategies to help teachers understand how poverty impacts learning
ways to maintain high expectations
strategies for building a culture that supports ALL students
strategies to close the gap between socioeconomic groups
Connections with Mindset training

4. Reflections

5. Review – What Have We Learned?
The Compelling Why
39,123 Wake County children live in poverty
Kids Count Data Center 2012
Overall proficiency rates for ED students in NC and WCPSS on state assessments are 29.5% and 29.0%, respectively
Definition of Poverty
A chronic and debilitating condition that results from multiple adverse synergistic risk factors and affects the mind, body and soul.

6. Review – What Have We Learned?
4 Primary Risk Factors
Emotional and social challenges
Acute and chronic stressors
Cognitive lags
Health and safety issues

7. Homework Read chapters 2 & 3
Skim the chapters
Identify which of the six types of poverty are most prevalent at your School
Reflect on how poverty affects students at your school . Identify possible strategies that will help improve the challenges

8. 6 Types of Poverty Situational Poverty Generational Poverty
Absolute Poverty
Relative Poverty
Urban Poverty
Rural Poverty

9. Turn & Talk
Discus which of the six types of poverty are most prevalent at your school
Reflect on how poverty affects students at your school. Discuss possible strategies that will help improve the challenges based on what you have learned to this point
US - one in three black kids—a full 36 percent of black youth—live in poverty and 31 percent of Latino kids lives in poverty
NC -Definitions: The number and percent of children living at or below the federal poverty level.
WAKE - Definitions: The number and percent of children living at or below the federal poverty level.

10. Homework Read chapters 4 & 5
Identify school-wide success factors that can possibly be incorporated at your school
Identify classroom–level success factors that can possibly be incorporated at your school
Draft an action plan

11. For the Love of Possibility

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