Students in Poverty
Students in poverty are more than twice as likely to be below grade level in reading and four times as likely to drop out prior to graduation.
Any High-Poverty School Can Become High Performing
Videos
Team Based Thinking
What it is like to be a child in poverty
How the Teen Brain Learns
Educational Structuring to Support
Family Engagement
Selecting and Training Teachers
Student Relationships
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Understanding Poverty
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What is free vs. reduced
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Common stereotypes
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Build Community Relationships
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​Mentorship
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Instruction
Resources to Engage Impoverished students
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Mentorship Partnerships
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Connect with families by providing basic needs
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Home Visits to build bridges with families
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Student-led conferences
Home visits and the power of Respect
Community Engagement
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Take learning outside of the school walls
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Give tours of the neighborhood (talk about knowing where and how to go.
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Give back to the community
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Make soup at the school and deliver to hospice patients
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Student-led conferences
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Build physician offices attached to the school
Recouping Instructional Loss
1. Ensure excellent literacy instruction in Kindergarten:
Orton Gillingham / All day Kindergarten
2. Intervene early:
OT/ SLP small group intervention specialist coteaching support
3. Summer School: Avoid summer reading loss
4. Provide Targeted Intervention:
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Formative assessment / differentiation
Use high impact research based teaching strategies:
4. Organize instructional time: team study hall period.
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Exit cards for quiet study hall for students with no missing assignments
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Individualized tutoring support in small group for struggling students
Building Relationships in the Classroom