Learning Opportunities

This event is sponsored, in part, by Northland School Division. Some workshop content will be directed at a northern Alberta and indigenous population context in support of the Northland School Division population.

Ruby’s newly updated workshop gives you in-depth information to help you understand class differences and 10 actions you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact.  This workshop is based on the book “A Framework for Understanding Poverty” by Ruby K. Payne, Ph. D.

After participating in this workshop, you will : Leave the training with concrete actions that can be implemented easily the next day in your classroom or building.

• Better understand how economic class affects behaviors and mindsets.
• Develop stronger relationships with students to impact behavior and achievement.
• Identify several key instructional strategies that meet the needs of the under-resourced learner.
• Understand the hidden rules of economic classes and how they apply to the your classroom.
• Reduce discipline referrals.
• Use concrete strategies that impact the achievement of students from poverty.

Topics include: resources, relationships, hidden rules, mental models, family structure, updated case studies, family dynamics, your personal experience with class, the role of language registers, discourse patterns and story structure, and the importance of relationships.

Needs/issues/problems addressed in this workshop:

• Achievement gap
• Accountability
• Poverty
• Discipline
• Understanding differences
• Economic class behaviors and mindsets

Participants will be able to:

• Analyze the eight resources of a student
• Explain language registers, discourse patterns, and story structure
• Give examples of hidden rules among classes
• Identify discipline interventions that are effective
• Explain mediation and cognitive strategies
• Explain how economic realities affect patterns of living.