Leaders Disrupting Poverty: 5 Powerful School and Classroom Practices that Ensure Success

Wednesday January 30, 2019
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Grand Ballroom 2501 C

In this session, the authors will share insight and strategies from their new ASCD book, Disrupting Poverty: 5 Powerful Classroom Strategies and previous best-selling ASCD book, Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools. Any leader who has “been in the business” for more than even a handful of years has likely witnessed the sobering increase in the number of students who live in poverty and knows his or her job has become far more challenging as a result. Participants will explore the Framework for Action which stemmed from studying high-poverty, high-performing schools and also delve into the five key aspects of school and classroom culture found to contribute to both student and school success. Leaders will emerge inspired and equipped with structures, strategies, and tools gleaned from successful leaders and teachers, many of whom grew up in poverty, for disrupting poverty’s adverse influence on lives and learning.

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Kathleen Budge

Kathleen Budge brings a blend of 26 years of practical experience as a teacher and administrator combined with more than a decade of work dedicated to bridging the gap between the university and the teaching profession. She is an associate professor of Educational Leadership and Chair of the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department at Boise State University, where her research focus on poverty, rural education, school improvement, and leadership development. She is co-author (with William Parrett) of the award-winning book Turning High-Poverty Schools Into High-Performing Schools, and the video series, Disrupting Poverty in Elementary and Secondary Classrooms. Bill and Kathleen’s newest book, Disrupting Poverty: 5 Powerful Classroom Practices, was honored as an ASCD Member book and provided to over 50,000 educational leaders and classroom teachers worldwide as a part of it’s official release in January of 2018. She has conducted numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences and served as guest speaker for webinars, podcasts, and symposiums related to the topic of poverty and the “whole child.” Her consultancies include state departments, boards of education, education associations, state and regional service providers; as well as schools in 15 states and 4 nations. She earned her doctorate from the University of Washington in 2005. She continues to maintain that her most important and significant work has been teaching first graders to read.

type:
Lecture
theme:
leadership
audience:
classroom leaders
topics:
effective leaders, Title I-A, Title II-A, Title IV-A