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Ms. Sealey from Lake Wales FL is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Professional development

A Framework for Understanding Poverty

I need the training and resources to better understand, educate, and support my students from a generational poverty background.

  • $402 goal

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My Students

I teach courses at both the middle school and high school level in our small, community school system. My students range from 11-18 years old and a majority come from limited means and poverty backgrounds.

In addition to the normal challenges that face low income students in middle school, we sustained a great deal of damage to our campus from Hurricane Irma.

Many of them also sustained damage at home, and they've all had their learning interrupted. We're trying to replace the materials we lost, establish normalcy as much as possible, and meet their needs both in and out of the classroom. The better we understand our students, the better we can foster their development.

My Project

Our community is a small, low income, rural environment. Generational poverty affects the majority of the students in our school system. It can be a challenge for everyone involved when the skills and traits needed in a poverty environment are at odds with the skills and traits we're trying to introduce to our learners.

The better I can understand their needs, behaviors, and mindsets - the more effective I will be.

I have read Ruby Payne's book on generational poverty, and it is excellent. I would like to be able to take the official two day training, as well as read the related literature and have access to the tools.

The training should allow me to:

- Use concrete strategies that impact the achievement of students from poverty.

- Better understand how economic class affects behaviors and mindsets.

- Develop stronger relationships with students to impact behavior and achievement.

- Identify key instructional strategies that meet the needs of the under-resourced learner.

- Understand the hidden rules of economic classes and how they apply in classrooms.

-Reduce discipline referrals.

Ms. Sealey
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Two Day Training • Aha Process, Inc. A Ruby Payne Company $199.00 1 $199.00
Boys in Crisis: Why It Matters and What You Can Do About It – Book • Aha Process, Inc. A Ruby Payne Company $25.00 1 $25.00
Slocumb-Payne Teacher Perception Inventory (25/set) • Aha Process, Inc. A Ruby Payne Company $25.00 1 $25.00
From Understanding Poverty to Developing Human Capacity • Aha Process, Inc. A Ruby Payne Company $17.95 1 $17.95
Working with Students: Discipline Strategies for the Classroom - Book • Aha Process, Inc. A Ruby Payne Company $17.95 1 $17.95
Mental Models for Social Studies/History, Grades 6-12 - Workbook • Aha Process, Inc. A Ruby Payne Company $13.00 1 $13.00

Materials cost

$297.90

Vendor shipping charges

$8.50

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$340.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.15

Total project goal

$401.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$401.02

1 Donor

-$170.44

Donations toward project cost

-$170.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$200.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.43

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.08

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$30.08

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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