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

Payne, Ruby K.

Ehlig, Bill

aha! Process, Inc.

Bridges Out of Poverty takes the concepts of hidden rules of economic class and uses them to educate social workers, employers and community organizations about hte unique and sometimes hidden obstacles that individuals from poverty face. 
Strategies help improve services for clients, raise retention rates for new hires from poverty, and increase understanding of the differences in economic cultures and how those differences affect opportunities for success.

Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals And Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Ruby K. Payne

Philip DeVol

Terie Dreussi-Smith

Social Sciences

A story about struggle and its fallout. The struggle unfolds among the forgotten, invisible people living in en las calles frias of San Antonio varrio. There we find lost youth, hopeless and filled with self hatred, who in just one generation have forgotten the compassion and wisdom of their elders. Now the jovenes fill the jail cells and cemeteries and their roving gangas of brutal thugs bring terror and misery down on the hardworking gente. 
Yet from this tempest grows a love story, a story of yearning of hope and meaning. It's the story of Luna and Nazul who've just discovered each other, and of their small clicka of friends, who begin to grasp the power to retrieve what has been lost. 
How they change the conciousness of their generation, loosen the grip of terror, and uphold the lessons and honor of their elders will forever change the way you think about the forgotten people living in the shadows of the American dream. 
This volume contains more than 40 pages of original artwork by author.

Los Vryosos; A Tale from the Varrio

Adan Hernandez

Reference

Ruby K. Payne is best known for her work on the "hidden rules of economic class" and how they affect learning, after 30 years in public education. Now a speaker and publisher, she teams with Dr. Paul Slocumb, former president of Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Dr. Slocumb is now consulting and writing, and speaks extensively on this subject. 
Removing the Mask provides identification instruments and processes to identify gifted learners from poverty, thus enabling schools to achieve equity in their gifted program. Behavior interventions and support systems for the students, once identified, helps keep them in the program and succeed.

Removing the Mask : Giftedness in Poverty

Education & Teaching

Paul D. Slocumb

ED.D.

Schools & Teaching

Dr. Payne has written Understanding Learning: the How, the Why, the What to complement her workbook Learning Structures, which includes numerous strategies to help students learn vital content while building cognitive abilities. Understanding Learning provides key background in information about how and why these strategies work, along with a synopsis of brain research and cognitive studies.

Understanding Learning: The How, the Why, the What

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

Melinda Ausband's experience in teaching, writing children's books for classroom use, and using the Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading in her classroom resulted in this set of reproducible Take-Home Books, a perfect complement to the Tucker signs. Each take-home book parallels a lesson in the manual, providing additional high-interest, low-cost material that children can take home and read successfully.

Take-Home Books for Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading

Melinda C. Ausband

Un Marco Para Entender La Pobreza enseña las regalas escondidas de las clases económicas y propaga el mensaje que, a pesar de los obstáculos que la pobreza puede crear en todo tipo de interacción, existen estrategias específicas para superarlos. Desde la publicación de este Marco en 1995, la Dra. Payne también ha escrito o co-escrito cerca de una docena de libros acerca de estos temas en áreas tales como educación, servicios sociales, el lugar de trabajo, fe y las comunidades, y liderazgo.

Un Marco Para Entender La Pobreza (Spanish Edition)

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.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty

Sociology

This intriguing story provides mental models that teach mathematical concepts at the foundational level. A glove maker who starts by sewing finger covers leads to his invention of place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and regrouping. He marries Decimal Point, and their children are Fractions.

Mr. Base Ten Invents Mathematics

Tucker, Bethanie H.

Children's Books

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