Book by William A. Sommers, Ruby K. Payne

Living on a Tightrope: A Survival Handbook for Principals

Ruby K. Payne

William A. Sommers

Aha! Process

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 questionnaires, Framework not only documents the facts of poverty, it provides practical yet compassionate strategies for addressing its impact on people's lives.

A Framework For Understanding Poverty Audio CD

Actors are readers, Classrooms are Stages, and Everyone stars in ... Berrytales. 
Berrytales manages to combine dialogue, story narrative, improvisation, and content constructs into plays for middle students and their teachers. Each play works easily in the classroom setting. All of the Berrytales are about how to teach students science, history, drama, and language constructs--and how to get them to think about their own thinking.

Berrytales: Plays in One Act

Davis, Cheryl E.

Meeting Standards & Raising Test Scores Resources

Ruth Payne

Timely guidance for minimizing the impact of economic class differences on intimacy, gender roles, employment, decision-making, raising children, in-law relations, dining, and mobility between classes.

Crossing the Tracks for Love: What to Do When You and Your Partner Grew Up in Different Worlds

Self-Help

Relationships

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

Business & Money

Payne, Ruby K.

Economics

The poverty rate in the United States has not dropped significantly since 1965. And if we continue to expect government and social services to take care of poverty without the help of individuals, nothing is likely to change. That's why the Circles Campaign has captured the imaginations of people of conscience across the United States, including educators, social workers, community organizers, faith leaders, business leaders, and politicians. 
 The Circles Campaign is an action plan that brings together the best efforts and resources of individuals, organizations, communities, and government in a program proven to raise people out of poverty. 
 Until It's Gone shows you how to:
<ul>
<li>Define, recognize, and approach the problem of poverty in America</li> <li>Get started in building Circles out of poverty in your community</li> <li>Expand social networks and connect with others outside your comfort zone</li> <li>Be a bolder ally to those in need</li> <li>Become a transformational leader wherever you are</li> <li>Eliminate the barriers confronted by those in poverty</li>
</ul>
 Praise for Until It's Gone:
 'To achieve community sustainability, we must address issues of economic justice, which can occur only when there are relationships of mutual respect among the classes. The process that Scott Miller identifies to allow those relationships to develop is pure genius.' --Ruby K. Payne, PhD, author of the bestselling A Framework for Understanding Poverty
 'Scott Miller offers us practical hope that we can end--not just reduce--poverty through a change in the ways we think and respond.' --Vicki Robin, co-author of the bestselling Your Money or Your Life and co-founder of Conversation Cafés

Until It's Gone: Ending Poverty in Our Nation, in Our Lifetime

Politics & Social Sciences

Scott C. Miller

Social Sciences

Until Its Gone: Ending Poverty in Our Nation, in Our Lifetime

This newly updated workbook and workshop accompanies the foundational Framework training, and provides in-depth information to help participants understand class differences and improve learning. This workbook is newly framed around 10 actions with concrete strategies that you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact-reduced discipline referrals, improved relationships with students, and some key instructional strategies to raise achievement. This workbook is based on the book A Framework for Understanding Poverty, also by Dr. Payne.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty Workbook(Revised)

Ruby K. Payne, PH.D.

Getting Ahead by Philip E. DeVol, is a workbook for people in poverty that shows how to use the hidden rules of class to build up financial, emotional, social, and other resources. Understanding the hidden rules of the middle class and wealth, and choosing to use them, can open doors to new relationships, new jobs, and higher resources. The workbook is designed to be used as an investigation tool by people working in groups with a trained facilitator. The participants explore the impact that poverty has had on them, investigate economic realities, complete a self-assessment of their own resources, make plans to build their own resources, and develop a mental model of community prosperity.

Getting Ahead in a Just-gettin-by World: Building Your Resources for a Better Life, Revised Edition

Philip E. DeVol

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