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Getting Ahead addresses not just poverty, but mental health as well
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech that Jim Ott gave at the 2024 Emerge Solutions conference: “Together We Thrive.” [...]
Multiple strategies are necessary to achieve health equity for all
Health equity, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, means the highest quality of health for all people, where every [...]
Together We Thrive conference: Our top-ten takeaways
The following is from Lynn Jackson, aha! Process Bridges engagement manager, Nicole Baptiste, aha! Process consultant, and Suzie Johnson-Sm [...]
I am part of that river, helping others find new paths forward
The following is from Courtney Thomas, James City County (Virginia) Care Team coordinator. The author, Courtney Thomas, pictured with Ruby [...]
Books and more are marked down by 75% on new “Deals” web page
Similar to a half-yearly sale at a department store or a holiday sale at a new car dealership, aha! Process has marked down numerous items [...]
Are we still teaching phonics?
Looking over the list of student names on my first class roster was intimidating to say the least. Twenty-seven. Twenty-seven names represe [...]
My testimony
The following is from Brenna Wrede, a Getting Ahead graduate who was part of Burlington Building Bridges, led by Mona Ash in Iowa. It has b [...]
You fell in love with Bridges! How do you keep the momentum going?
If you are like me and so many others across the world, you have fallen in love with the Bridges model and want more! More tools, more su [...]
How we as decision-makers get stuck in our ways
Let’s say you are in a leadership position in (pick any field). You work your way up to management. You learn the ropes and get good at i [...]
Are you ready to expand your Bridges initiatives?
Fall has arrived, and I’m receiving calls from communities that are ready to take the next step of their journey with the Bridges Out of Po [...]
How Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty helped me navigate social classes and break the cycle of generational poverty
The following is written by Ashley Hamel, assistant principal at Grandview Elementary in Grandview, Texas. Growing up, I knew my home life [...]
Getting Ahead graduate reports (data provided by CharityTracker)
CharityTracker provides regular reports on Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World outcomes that are related to improvements in stability, [...]
Caring for kids in the classroom
Ruby Payne, founder and CEO of aha! Process, had the opportunity to interview Carey Arensberg, who is a TikTok influencer and standout ed [...]
Ruby Payne: Campuswide interventions that improve student achievement (Poverty Series Part 4)
Ruby Payne, founder and CEO of aha! Process, wrote a four-part series of articles on poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These ar [...]
Michigan woman shares about her successful Getting Ahead experience
Danielle Thoune, a recent graduate of Copper Shores Bridges Out of Poverty, recently told her life story in the form of a Daily Mining Gaze [...]
Emerge better: R & D at its best
Treasure McKenzie, executive director of Muskogee Bridges Out of Poverty in Muskogee, Oklahoma, always says R & D means “Rip Off and Dup [...]
The continuing need to identify intellectually gifted students in impoverished communities
Gifted education has always been criticized for its inability to identify giftedness in all populations. Since the pandemic, gifted educati [...]
Is working with parents becoming more of a challenge?
Do you work with difficult parents? Do your new teachers avoid parents? Do you experience social media issues with parents? Do you need bet [...]
Ruby Payne: Working with students from poverty—discipline (Poverty Series Part 3)
Ruby Payne, founder and CEO of aha! Process, wrote a four-part series of articles on poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These ar [...]
Educating Students Experiencing Homelessness, Instability, and Disengagement
What do you do with students experiencing a lack of permanent housing or with students who are hungry, tired, and have demands placed on the [...]
Getting Ahead graduate writes a poem about her experience
The aha! Process Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World program centers on investigators, who, with a cohort of their peers and a worksho [...]
Second-chance talent: What kind of community do we desire?
The following is from Carrie Montgomery, Tomás Vargas, and Dan Jennings, experts on the subject of the formerly incarcerated returning to s [...]
Ruby Payne: Building learning structures inside the head (Poverty Series Part 2)
Ruby Payne, founder and CEO of aha! Process, wrote a four-part series of articles on poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These ar [...]
“The road to responsibility,” a two-part blog series from 2018, revisited
In 2018, aha! Process published a two-part blog series titled "The road to responsibility," written by David Burgess, a retired principal w [...]
Getting Ahead graduates celebrate
It’s graduation season—Getting Ahead graduation season, to be exact. Congratulations to all of the graduates in Wichita, Kansas; across the [...]