POVERTY IN EDUCATION

1. POVERTY IN EDUCATION PRESENTED BY SARAH SCHWEPPE AND AMY KRUEGER

2. Poverty Figures How many people in the world live in poverty? • Rob Bell – Chairs

3. Poverty at Windsor C-1 Windsor C-1 reports: • Enrollment of grades K-12 over 3,000 students • 43 of these students considered homeless • 35% of students receive free or reduced lunch • 79 students received backpacks through Brendan’s backpack program • 24 at Windsor Elementary Imken, 2017

4. Who qualifies for assistance in MO? • Temporary Assistance • Have a child under 18, or under 19 if child is in high school • Are citizens or eligible immigrants • Are residents of Missouri • Have income and resources under $1,000 • Have no felony drug conviction after 8/22/96. What does this look like?

5. What effect does this have on us? Windsor C-1 School District Communication Arts MAP Scores

6. 8 resources that influence achievement Financial Emotional Mental Spiritual Physical Support System Role Models Knowledge of Hidden Rules

7. Understanding Hidden Rules Ruby Payne’s Hidden Rules Of Social Classes Source: Ruby Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty.

8. Other Rules

9. Key points to remember when working with students from poverty. • Schools generally operate under the hidden rules of the middle class. • Students from poverty must be taught these hidden rules in order to choose the appropriate response if desired. • Relationships are the key motivators for learning for these students. Relationships must be established before learning can occur.

10. Behavior Interventions • Behaviors Related to Poverty: • Laugh when disciplined • Argue loudly with the teacher • Angry response • Inappropriate or vulgar comments • Physically fights • Hands always on someone else • Cannot follow directions • Extremely disorganized • Complete only part of task • Disrespectful to teacher • Harm other students, verbally and physically • Cheat and/or steal • Talk incessantly • Intervention: • Teach desired behaviors • Model and practice respect • Respond in the adult voice (firm) • Develop a list of appropriate words • Examine other options with students • Draw/Doodle/Hands in pockets • Write steps on the board/Procedural self-talk • Develop a plan/color coding • Check-off list • Practice appropriate behavior • Generate other option/list of phrases to use • Find reason/need Social stories or metaphor story • Talking tokens

11. Teaching strategies • A teacher can teach a perfect lesson, but if the student does not have the structures for accepting and using the information, a great deal of the lesson is lost. • “Teaching is what happens outside the head; learning is what happens inside the head. For students to learn, direct teaching must occur to build these cognitive structures.” • We must provide direct instruction to build structures in their minds. Payne, Ruby (2013)

12. Cognitive structures-must be in place for learning: 1. Organized mechanism for data-e.g. the frame of the house 2.Cognitive strategies-e.g. the plumbing, electrical of the house • Input strategies-quantity and quality of the data • Elaboration strategies-”use of the data” 3.Conceptual frameworks-stores and retrieves the data 4. Models for Sorting-e.g. the door on a room- allows the entrance and exit of data Payne, Ruby (2013)

13. Windsor is OWLstanding • Campus Interventions: • Curriculum linkage across grade levels • Assess time allocations by subject, activity, and student • Common language and processes for problem solving • Identify reasonable expectations and benchmarks • Identify time for interventions • Classroom Interventions: • Goal setting/control impulsivity activities • Teach procedures • Use music to learning to long-term memory • Increase time students read and write • Activities that use kinesthetic and symbolic approaches to learning

14. Survey and Conclusion • How can I help?

15. Resources Resources for Windsor Students:  District Social Worker: Chrissy Imken-363.464.4428  Hoot Cares: This is a resource where students can get clothing, coats, shoes (if sizes are available) • Referrals for the Hoot Cares store go through Shannon Jansen. Brendan’s Backpack: Students can get a bag of food sent home on the last school day of the week for weekend meals. The food is easy to prepare. • Referrals for Brendan’s Backpack go through Shannon Jansen.

16. Resources con’t Resources for Windsor Elementary Students: Windsor Elementary Building Fund: Windsor Elementary has a small fund available for students who might not be able to afford a class t-shirt or field trip. • -Contact Shannon Jansen Wish Drive-Winter Holidays • Denise Funston and Shannon Jansen look at those students on the Brendan’s Backpack list and choose families that could use help to make the holidays more enjoyable for those students and their families. • Kindergarten has clothing, jackets and coats (if sizes are available) -Contact Jessica Carter or Sarah Schweppe-We are always accepting donations for this ‘store’

17. Payne, R. (2005). A framework for understanding poverty (4th rev. ed.). Highlands, Tex.: Aha! Process.