Under-Resourced Learners
8 Strategies to boost student achievement
Author: Ruby K. Payne and aha! Process Consultants

By Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D., this Under-Resourced Learners DVD series identifies 8 strategies that can help raise student achievement. Emphasizing the importance of resources to student success, Dr. Ruby Payne identifies a gold mine of best practices and interventions to address the needs of today’s under-resourced students, and every student.

The 8 modules are:
  1. Assess Resources - run time: 11:03
  2. Build Relationships of Mutual Respect with Students - run time: 25:45
  3. Teach Formal Register and Story Structure - run time: 15:17
  4. Negotiating the Abstract Representational World - run time: 16:29
  5. Teach Appropriate Behaviors - run time: 34:46
  6. The Six-Step Process - run time: 17:28
  7. Build Relationships of Mutual Respect with Parents - run time: 25:28
  8. Develop Community Collaboration Models - run time: 17:28
Perfect for mentoring your new teachers, for staff development, to accompany an in-house book study, or even for faculty meetings.

Bonus: 7 vignettes with real students and administrators: Hear the debriefing too!