Podcast: Addressing the effects of high-poverty neighborhoods

When we want to lower highway fatalities, we test the drivers, inspect the cars, and fix the roads.

When we want to improve educational outcomes, we test the students and hold the schools accountable, but we do little about neighborhood effects of poverty. The “roads” of a high-poverty neighborhood have missing bridges, unpaved stretches, few safety signs, and washed-out sections.

Effects of high-poverty neighborhoods include:

Crime
Violence
Dropouts
Instability
Unemployment

In this podcast I discuss how aha! Process strategies and solutions can be used to address the effects of high-poverty neighborhoods.

Find strategies to help mediate neighborhood effects in the the newly revised and updated edition of Under-Resourced Learners.

Ruby Payne2020-06-26T15:01:16-05:00June 2nd, 2017|K-12 Schools|

About the Author: Ruby Payne

In her two decades as a consultant on education and economic class, Ruby has published more than a dozen books and spoken extensively around the globe. Ruby empowers educators and community leaders to address issues of poverty in classrooms, communities, businesses, hospitals, churches, and social services. Through aha! Process programs and conferences, Ruby has certified thousands of trainees in her Framework for Understanding Poverty and Bridges Out of Poverty models. Her book Emotional Poverty won an IPPY Award from the Independent Publishers organization, which named it one of the best educational resources of the year. Over her distinguished career, Ruby has worked as a teacher and principal, written K–12 curriculum in all subject areas, and assisted in strategic planning and staff development programs for multiple organizations. Ruby’s work guides educators and community leaders through her extensive library of resources. She aims to equip everyone she meets with the tools to write a future story full of hope.