As you know, aha! Process collaborates with Move the Mountain, an organization dedicated to ending poverty in our lifetime. Their Circles Initiative uses constructs from Bridges Out of Poverty and Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-by World. This week we received an update from a Circles community, South Central Community Action Programs, Inc., in Gettysburg/Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. [...]
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Ahoj! (That’s Slovak for “Hello!”)
I will be traveling with Phil DeVol to Slovakia later this month to follow up on training requests resulting from Ruby Payne’s visit in May. Ruby’s initial visit to Slovakia was a great success. What we have found is that our strategies for community change and understanding the hidden rules of [...]
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Kim contacted us in July and was interested in translating Appendix E in the Learning Structures: Modules 8–13 workbook into Polish. She lives in Nebraska and travels to Poland a couple of times a year to work with social workers there.
What is Appendix E? It is Dr. Payne’s article “Understanding Poverty and Working with Students [...]
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I recently read Kay’s blog where she’s writing about being asked by her governor to chair a committee on education. In her blog Kay concludes that part of the problem with education is poverty. I’m happy to see she is digging deeper into the issue of poverty and is using A Framework for Understanding Poverty [...]
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aha! Process participated in the NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals) annual convention in Nashville. What a great place for elementary educators to come together and collaborate on solutions for kids!
We had educators come by our booth and say some of the following things:
“Framework has influenced my career in the classroom.”
“We’ve done Ruby [...]
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We prefer people who are passionate—even if we don’t always agree on everything. This is what we can agree on when it comes to poverty:
We know that children from poverty can learn.
We know we can make a difference in the lives of individuals from poverty.
To learn, these kids need and deserve a great education, relationships [...]
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Here is a letter we received from Rosa Leonard, a middle-school reading specialist:
“Reyna is a 13-year-old female from El Salvador. She came to this country in August, 2006. Reyna had never attended school in El Salvador and speaks only Spanish. She was placed in sixth grade because of her age. She was placed in a [...]
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Recently Dr. Paul Slocumb, author of Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis, presented a workshop on boys to a group in Wichita, Kansas. This is an e-mail Dr. Slocumb received from an attendee:
Dear Dr. Slocumb:
I was in your audience in Wichita, Kansas on Tuesday, September 4, 2007. You autographed my book. When I returned to [...]
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Now this is great information. Kirsten, from Valrico, Florida, wrote last week to say what a difference the Ruby Payne seminar presented by Dr. Rita Pierson made in her life. What she said about the workshop was that it made a difference in her as a teacher. So, I expected Kirsten to be a teacher [...]
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As an employee of aha! Process, one of the things I hear so often is, “Oh, you work for Ruby Payne.” Yes, I do, but what is more meaningful is that I work for an organization that is creating change in the lives of individuals in poverty and in the lives of the professionals who [...]
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