Thursday April 7th, 2016

This is a great article with tips for when we work with students who live in generational poverty. Big challenges end with great rewards! Closing academic gaps requires closing opportunity gaps.  Praise, thinking outside the box with challenges that arise, loving students even during the most difficult and unloving behaviors, and having high expectations. There is so much potential in all of our students:

5 Ways to Help Students Affected by Generational Poverty

This article is a quick read about how living in poverty can influence learning. The part about mobility is something that I think most of can relate to with students we work with:

How Does Poverty Influence Learning?

Whether we are providing interventions, extensions, check-ins, incentives and behavior plans, discipline, or even resources: every student is different. Great reminder of equity versus equality, everybody receiving the same: