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This conference has opened my eyes in the myriad of activities and techniques to help at-promise youth. I have made a promise to myself to be in the 10% who go back to their site and implements the concepts learned. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
2007 Conference Attendee

Session Descriptions

Friday, February 20, 2009
 

 

"A Framework for Understanding Poverty"

DR. RUBY PAYNE, Educational Consultant, Motivational Speaker, & Author

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Keynote, Friday, 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Do some students laugh when they are disciplined? Economic realities create ways of thinking and behaving. The closer one is to merely “surviving”, the less time there is for the pursuit of learning. Hidden rules of behavior, language registers, resources, interventions, discipline, and creating relationships are the major topics to be discussed in understanding and successfully teaching children from generational poverty. 


 

"hidden rules of behavior:  understanding the influence poverty has on learning and relationships"

DR. RUBY PAYNE, Educational Consultant, Motivational Speaker, & Author

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Session 101 , Friday, 2:15 - 4:45 pm

When students don’t know when they will get their next meal or where they will sleep at night, they don’t make academic achievement a priority. This session explores ways educators can help their students transcend the confines of their economic situation and focus on learning. Participants will practice a variety of activities that work toward effective instruction for these students.

 

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

  

 

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

 

 

"becoming a catalyst for change"

ERIN GRUWELL , Educational Consultant, Motivational Speaker, & Author

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Keynote, Sunday, 8:00 - 9:00 am

Erin Gruwell helped 150 of her students - many of whom were written off by the education system - to use the power of education to write a book, graduate from high school and attend college. The journey of this teacher and her students is chronicled in Freedom Writers' Diary - How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. In her inspiring presentation, Ms. Gruwell tells the story of this extraordinary journey - from poverty and despair to hope and promise - with stops at Anne Frank's House and Auschwitz and then on to Capitol Hill and Congress. How can one person take on seemingly insurmountable problems of poverty, racism, violence? What can our classrooms provide in order to make our children safe, educated, and productive people? Erin Gruwell teaches us all how we can become "Catalysts for Change."

  

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