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Tri-City Times: Legacy of Relationships Never Disappear
Legacy of Relationships Never Disappear (05/08/2013) Columnist Minolli reflects on Rita Pierson's TED Talk and the legacy left behind by Min [...]
CNN: How to Get Teachers to Teach and Students to Learn
CNN: How to Get Teachers to Teach and Students to Learn (05/06/2013) CNN reposts and transcribes the TED Talks video in which Rita Pierson d [...]
Huffington Post: In Praise of Nontraditional Teachers
In Praise of Nontraditional Teachers (05/05/2013) Hassan reacts to aha! Process consultant Rita Pierson's TED Talk, focusing more specifical [...]
A Recipe for Lemonade: Common Core State Standards and Student Achievement
Teresa A Johnson By Teresa Johnson INGREDIENT #7 (Final Ingredient): Common Core State Standards Common core: The final ingredient that ma [...]
TED.com: Rita Pierson Video – Every Kid Needs a Champion
Rita Pierson Video: Every Kid Needs a Champion on TED.com (05/01/2013) Rita Pierson discusses the importance of building relationships of mu [...]
When Discipline Issues Are Emotional Issues: Part 2
By Ruby K. Payne. Part 2 of 2 As published in Middle Ground Magazine. Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle Level Education The Toxic Tri [...]
Mainstream Online: Conference on Poverty Provides Strategies
Conference on Poverty Provides Strategies for Professionals (04/24/2013) Terie Dreussi-Smith speaks to community leaders, businesspeople, an [...]
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When Discipline Issues Are Emotional Issues
By Ruby K. Payne. Part 1 of 2 As published in Middle Ground Magazine. Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle Level Education Do any of you [...]
Child Voice? Parent Voice? Encourage Planning with the Adult Voice
by Rita Pierson Within all of us are three very distinct voices. We tend to use the voice that we think will get us what we want at that mom [...]
I Want to Give with Meaning
by Carol Taylor I was recently approached by Betty (not her real name), a woman in our community who stated, “Carol, my friends and I write [...]
The Jambar: Bridges Expands Their Support
Bridges Expands Their Support (04/01/2013) The Bridges Out of Poverty Student Union at Youngstown State University in Ohio received more tha [...]
A Young Economist’s Perspective: Book Review – A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Book Review: Ruby Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty (03/29/2013) This reviewer finds Framework especially well-suited to inspire [...]
Bridges in Australia: First Bridges Trainer Certification Event Held in Australia
by Phil DeVol Those who are familiar with Bridges Out of Poverty will be interested to know that Bridges in Australia is developing poverty [...]
Bike Walk Twin Cities: Bridges Out of Poverty
Bridges Out of Poverty (03/27/2013) aha! Process author Jodi Pfarr leads people out of their cultural comfort zones and into a discussion of [...]
Hidden Rules: Focusing on Achievement for Middle High Ability and Gifted Students
By Teresa Johnson Teresa A Johnson INGREDIENT – Hidden Rules Hidden rules are real! Thirteen years ago when I first traveled to Texas to [...]
What Does Success Really Look Like?
By Carol Taylor At a recent meeting I was having with several Getting Ahead (GA) graduates, we were discussing what success looks like. Not [...]
Building Resources: Focusing on Achievement for Middle High Ability and Gifted Students
Teresa A Johnson INGREDIENT - Resources In a previous blog, I began my idea of a recipe for classroom success with middle, high ability, a [...]
Introduction to Revised Edition of Getting Ahead Facilitator Notes
Here is a transcript of the video author Phil DeVol did regarding what’s new in the latest edition of Getting Ahead that was released last f [...]
Geelong Advertiser: Brazier Helps Break Poverty Cycle
Brazier Helps Break Poverty Cycle (02/25/2013) Learn how an Australian organization is using Bridges Out of Poverty and Getting Ahead to hel [...]
Winston Salem Chronicle: Controversial Author on Conquering Poverty
Controversial Author/Researcher Gives Her Take on Conquering Poverty (02/25/2013) More than 150 social service and nonprofit officials atten [...]
Daily Times Leader: Region’s Impoverished Beating the Odds
Region's Impoverished Beating the Odds Through "Bridges Out of Poverty" Sessions (02/22/2013) aha! Process author Jodi Pfarr's own experienc [...]
Teaching Tips: Forming Relationships
The following is a transcript from a video clip Ruby Payne did on creating relationships of mutual respect in school between adult and stude [...]
Middle Ground: When Discipline Issues Are Emotional Issues
When Discipline Issues Are Emotional Issues (02/19/2013) Ruby gives tips on identifying and dealing with discipline issues that have an unde [...]
Pottstown Post: Cluster Works on Pottstown Poverty
Cluster, Stakeholders Work on Pottstown Poverty Issues (02/18/2013) This two-day Bridges workshop in Pennsylvania included members of Family [...]