Challenges and Opportunities: Why Poverty Matters and What Schools and Teachers Must Do

Friday February 6, 2015
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Room 155

What high impact action steps must be implemented when ESEA waiver grades announce that a school is failing? Learn how high-poverty schools successfully tackled the crisis, resulting in significant MAP gains, improvements in attendance and behavior referrals, and movement from an "F" to and "A" in just one year. This fast-paced session, featuring videos and powerful graphics, will explore the possible impact of poverty on development and learning that requires purposeful teacher moves. Learn the details of a sustained series of professional development activities driven by strong and unrelenting school leadership that resulted in remarkable growth in just one year. Take away the research-based strategies and action research model that produced significant shifts in teacher beliefs and student outcomes. Learn how to reframe the challenges you face in your Title I school as opportunities for changing the future for your students and their families.

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professional development, at-risk populations, neuroscience