A Framework for Understanding Poverty was Dr. Ruby Payne's first book, written for teachers with adaptations for work and community members. Its purpose is to educate people about the differences that separate economic classes and then teaching them strategies to bridge those gulfs. Ruby discusses at length the social cues or "hidden rules" that govern how we think and interact in society – and the significance of those rules in a classroom. Other topics include why students from generational poverty often fear being educated, discipline interventions that improve behavior, and the eight resources that make a difference to success. 
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty

Politics & Social Sciences

Payne, Ruby K.

Social Sciences

RFT Publishing Co.

A Framework: Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty

Literature & Fiction

Literary

RFT Publishing

Explanation of how students who are low income react differently in school, and understanding them can result in better discipline solutions. Author was an assistant principal for many years, and the book resulted from workshops that she was giving teachers over how to understand children from poverty backgrounds. Children are featured in her examples.

Churches are often perceived as open, welcoming environments and many times that's true. But congregations, without even realizing it, sometimes make themselves inhospitable to people from poverty. For those situations, Dr. Ruby K. Payne and Rev. William Ehlig wrote what Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty. They use stories to help illustrate the way people from poverty view middle-class churches, and how to change those perceptions. They also provide solutions and tactics to teach church members and leaders some of the special considerations that can be afforded the disadvantaged. 
A thought-provoking book that is ideal for adult discussion groups, particularly at church.

What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty

Ehlig, Bill

aha! Process, Inc.

Hidden Rules of Class at Work takes a look at how economic class influences - often subtly yet significantly - behaviors that show up in the workplace and an understanding of how the levels of an organization reflect the hidden rules of class. 
Written for people who supervise others, the book provides tools to identify an individual's strengths and weaknesses by looking at his/her resources and an understanding of how economic class influences opportunities to develop resources. It is based on a research study by the authors on the correlation between an individual's resources and his/her promotion and success in the workplace. Each chapter gives the correlates and provides some practical answers as to how to use the information. More eye-opening learning from aha! Process. Inc.

Hidden Rules of Class at Work

Business & Money

A Framework for Understanding Poverty teaches the hidden rules of economic class and spreads the message that, despite the obstacles poverty can create in all types of interaction, there are specific strategies for overcoming them. Through case studies, personal stories and observations that produce some aha! moments, Payne clearly strikes a chord in her readers., and provides a hopeful message.

Sociology

People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth--challenges from both obvious and hidden sources. The reality of being poor brings out a survival mentality, and turns attention away from opportunities taken for granted by everyone else. If you work with people from poverty, some understanding of how different their world is from yours will be invaluable. Whether you're an educator--or a social, health, or legal services professional--this breakthrough book gives you practical, real-world support and guidance to improve your effectiveness in working with people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Since 1995 A Framework for Understanding Poverty has guided hundreds of thousands of educators and other professionals through the pitfalls and barriers faced by all classes, especially the poor. Carefully researched and packed with charts, tables, and questionaires, Framework not only documents the facts of poverty, it provides practical yet compassionate strategies for addressing its impact on people's lives.

Framework for Understanding Poverty

Economics

Aha! Process

Boys in Poverty: A Framework for Understanding Dropout

Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Slocumb, Paul D.

Psychology & Counseling

Solution Tree

Winner-Association of Educational Publishers 2011 Distinguished Achievement AwardFinalist-ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Award
Boys in Poverty examines the relationship between poverty and dropout among males by examining a wide range of risk factors, including the absence of role models; the trauma of violence and abuse; peer pressures; issues of belonging and not belonging; culturally driven expectations that boys should work rather than finish school, and cognitive and developmental issues that affect boys learning. In addition, the authors look at community and school system factors, such as poor teachers, unfair or punitive discipline policies, and the absence of differentiated instruction. The book structures these issues into four strands, or categories, of development physical, emotional, cognitive, and social, examining how each is exacerbated by poverty. Additional chapters explore the special problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, and ADHD boys and issues of post-adolescent males beyond high school age. Within each of these areas of development, the authors offer concrete suggestions for keeping boys engaged with school and the learning process.

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A Framework for Understanding Poverty

A Framework: Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty

A Framework: Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty

What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty

Hidden Rules of Class at Work

A Framework for Understanding Poverty

Framework for Understanding Poverty

Boys in Poverty: A Framework for Understanding Dropout

Boys in Poverty: A Framework for Understanding Dropout