Big Ideas Essential Questions

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• Big Ideas/ Essential Questions
• What is poverty?
• What does poverty look like at Auburn High School?

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• How might poverty affect learning and behaviors
  at school?
• What are our resources?
• What can we do to help kids while they are in our
  classes?

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Outcomes for today

• Clarity what does our achievement gap look like?
• More data on who our kids are
• Developing common language
• Intervention Strategies

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Poverty is

• The extent to which an individual does without
  resources

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In 2003

• National poverty rate
• 12.5 of population
• Under 18 17.6
• Under 6 20.3

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• In 2000 6.4 million poor families (6.7)
• In 2003, that number had grown to 7.6 million
  (10)

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Other statistics

• Immigrant children are twice as likes to be poor
  as their US-born peers
• Poverty is caused by interrelated factors
  parental employment (status earnings) family
  structures, parent education, etc.

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Poverty in Auburn

• Low property values
• Influx of people seeking something better
• Generational poverty

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The Achievement Gap is Alive and Well

• WASL
• Attendance
• GPA
• Dropout data
• college-bound students

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Who are our kids?

• data you could do a blank pie chart let them
  talk guess then an animation to reveal the
  facts. If youre interested, forward that info to
  me and Ill do it

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Could you survive in poverty today?

• Check items you could navigate
• Share responses with group
• Where/ from whom did you
• learn those skills?

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Ruby Payne
Did you want to put bio points here?
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Key Points from Ruby Payne

• Poverty is relative
• Individuals bring with them the hidden rules of
  the class in which they were raised

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• Schools and businesses in America operate from
  middle-class norms and rules
• We can neither excuse nor scold students for not
  knowing these norms and rules
• We must teach provide support, expectations,
  and insistence
• (Ruby Payne, 2005)

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• The ability to leave poverty is more dependent
  on other resources emotional, mental, spiritual,
  physical, support systems, relationships, and
  role models than it is upon financial resources.

(Framework p.8)
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Hidden Rules

• the salient, unspoken understandings that cue
  the members of a group than an individual does
  not fit in
• ..to move from one class to another, it is
  important to have a mentor from that class to
  teach you these hidden rules.

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RESOURCES

• Financial
• Emotional
• Mental
• Spiritual
• Physical
• Support Systems
• Relationships/Role Models
• Knowledge of Hidden Rules

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Vignettes

• Each person read at least one vignette and
  complete the activity
• Share your answers with your groups what other
  resources do you need?

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What should we do?What can we do?

• Complete the interventions matrix
• How is the behavior connected to poverty?
• What can you do in the classroom to help?

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Community Resources
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Next Steps