Rita Pierson

Framework for Understanding Poverty
Vocabulary and Mental Model Development for Preschool

Topics:

Framework for Understanding Economic Diversity Keynote

Do some students laugh when they are disciplined? Economic realities create ways of thinking and behaving. The closer one is to merely "surviving", the less time there is for the pursuit of learning. Hidden rules of behavior, language registers, resources, interventions, discipline, and creating relationships are the major topics to be discussed in understanding and successfully teaching children from generational poverty.

Under-Resourced Learners

From Understanding today’s students to designing specific interventions that work, this workshop will provide a broad base of approaches for your immediate use in today’s classroom.
This workshop will help you build relationships with today’s Generation Y students, as well as learn new tools to help struggling students.

Based on Dr. Ruby Payne’s recent publication, Under-Resourced Learners: 8 Strategies to Boost Student Achievement, this workshop provides immediately useful strategies such as:

• Six-step process for systemic change
• Making school more successful for boys
• Address AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)
• Strategies to cultivate relational learning in your classroom or building
• Checklists for quickly assessing student resources
• Behavior and classroom management
• Specific content interventions related to language arts and math
• Parent engagement model
• Understanding Hispanic/Latino students and parents

Audience:

Limited to 200 K-12.

Requirements:

Under-Resourced Learners book ($18 (8% S & H) per person) plus handouts to be duplicated.

Meeting The Educational Needs Of African American Boys

Examine the hidden rules of African American males and receive methods and strategies for building significant relationships and promoting higher academic achievement.

African American males often operate within a “hidden rule system” that is vastly different from the "middle class rule system" that governs America’s schools. Because the majority of public school teachers are female, white, and middle class, rule conflict is often inevitable. This conflict is evident by the number of minority males who are placed in Special Education and in alternative school placements.

This workshop examines the hidden rules of minority males in general and minority males living in poverty in particular. Methods and strategies for building significant relationships and promoting higher academic achievement are also presented. Participants will be given the opportunity to evaluate real-life classroom scenarios and to dialogue about appropriate interventions and approaches.

Workshop Format:

One Day or Half-day

Elementary and secondary school audiences

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