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• August 6, 2015 (Inactive)
• Denise O'Brien

Workshop has been moved to Holiday Inn see address below.

This workshop gives you in-depth information to help you understand class differences and 10 actions you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact. This workshop is based on the book A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. 

After attending this workshop, participants will:
    ·  Leave the training with concrete actions that can be implemented easily the next day in their classroom or building. 
    ·  Better understand how economic class affects behaviors and mindsets.
    ·  Develop stronger relationships with their students to impact behavior and achievement.
    ·  Identify several key instructional strategies that meet the needs of the under-resourced learner.
    ·  Understand the hidden rules of economic classes and how they apply to their classrooms.
    ·  Reduce their discipline referrals.
    ·  Use concrete strategies that impact the achievement of students from poverty.

Facilitator: Patti Albright of Baytown, Texas, has been an educator for 31 years. Patti has taught kindergarten through junior high school and has served as her campus language arts coordinator for the past 25 years. Patti also served as a district trainer in critical thinking skills, vocabulary strategies, effective questioning strategies, and curriculum writing. She worked with at-risk students and struggling readers for the duration of her teaching career and developed curriculum for slow learners at the district level.

Workshop Topics include:  resources, relationships, hidden rules, mental models, family structure, updated case studies, family dynamics, your personal experience with class, the role of language registers, discourse patterns and story structure, and the importance of relationships.