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Being a Mentor Every Day
I was listening to a program on NPR last week, and the host of the show was interviewing the rapper Ice-T, the self-professed “original gang [...]
Preliminary Results Indicate Improvement on TAKS
After all the practice and question-writing, my students did improve test scores, especially in critical thinking skills. I do not have thei [...]
Reframing Academic Suspension as an Opportunity to Learn Hidden Rules of Higher Education
As the dean of basic education at a two-year technical college, I am privileged to work with a very diverse group of students, and a plethor [...]
Question-Writing Strategy
As my students prepare to take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) reading test, I decided to take another stab at the quest [...]
If Businesses Operated Like Schools, We Could End Unemployment and Welfare—and Close the Prisons
If businesses operated like schools, we would first need to break the United States into geographic areas. It would be the responsibility of [...]
Transitioning to the State Common Core Standards Initiative: A Road Map to Success
When I think about implementing the new national standards for English language arts and mathematics, the Common Core State Standards Initia [...]
Ivy Tech Hosts Trainer Certification for Postsecondary Educators
Last week I had the privilege of participating in the first trainer certification for postsecondary educators. The training was hosted by Iv [...]
Relationships in the First-Year Teacher’s Classroom
As my first year of teaching moves forward, I am beginning to see the impact of relationships I have with my students. We all know from pers [...]
Building Relationships Through Assessments
by Diane Stempinski Does this sound familiar? Student: “What grade did you give me?” Teacher: “No, the correct question is, ‘What gra [...]
Renaissance in Little Rock
The teachers at Ridgeroad Middle Charter School do such a great job, and they continue to search for teaching strategies that will reach the [...]
Planning Backward: One Step to Success
I began teaching this school year as a career-changer. I didn’t have education training in college, but after talking with several experienc [...]
Relationships Make the Difference
How do your relationships with schools and/or community supports aid in the academic progress of high-risk children? It is important for you [...]
Support the Weekends Without Hunger Act
Greetings and happy new year. I’m Heatherly Conway, Ed.D., an author, speaker, educator, social worker, and a consultant for my book Collabo [...]
K-12 News Articles 2010
Nine Powerful Practices (ASCD.org, Ruby Payne) 09/20/2010 Our View - America should combat poverty with education (Daily 49er, Staff Write [...]
Community News Articles 2010
Logmount woman to pursue dream out of poverty (DailyCamera.com, Erica Meitzer) 12/11/2010 CARSA wages war against substance abuse (Advertise [...]
A Cost-Effective Solution to Poverty
As we developed Cincinnati Works, our retirement project, we never dreamed it would become a new business model approach for reducing povert [...]
To Nag or to Ignore: That Is the Question
Because a considerable portion of our job is to redirect counterproductive student behavior, should we immediately jump into action when we [...]
Two ways we look at resources
Ruby Payne defines poverty as the extent to which we do without resources. The beauty of that definition is that it gives us (individuals an [...]
Two kinds of aha! moments
People who attend Bridges and Getting Ahead workshops will often tell our trainers and facilitators that they had an aha! moment. (Thus, the [...]
Working With Student Brains In Mind: Daniel Amen
As teachers, we teach only one organ in the body. That organ is the brain. Because we teach the brain, we need to know everything we can abo [...]
Free cell phone minutes for people in poverty: Generosity or exploitation?
In my last blog I examined the way some of the interviewees in this Philadelphia Inquirer article revealed a prevalent mental model of peopl [...]
Can you hear me now? Cell phones for people in poverty
Can you hear me now? by Terie Dreussi-Smith The Philadelphia Inquirer article “Advocates say poor need available free cell phones” (June 14, [...]
How can we help our students from poverty be more successful?
When people are struggling to meet basic needs, they are more likely to be concerned with issues of survival. I explained our definition of [...]
What is poverty?
There is a lot of discussion circulating on other blogs, in articles, at conferences, and in other hot spots that argues about what poverty [...]
Relationships, math, and a deck of cards
What do relationships, math, and a deck of cards have in common? Family night for pre-kindergarten! Several families gathered in the cafeter [...]