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Helping Children Succeed Takeaways-Aishia Bowers

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Helping Children Succeed Takeaways-Aishia Bowers

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Understanding: Children's adversity can begin as early as in the womb, and the nurturing that promotes their success can start simultaneously. The difference would be in the environment the child is in. Many things impact a child's development, and their ultimate success depends on their parents' level of nurturing. Adversity can be overcome, especially when the parents and schools work together for the benefit of the child.

Assertion: School communities need to involve parents in their school community. When teachers work with families, it builds trust with the school and they are more likely to seek support when needed. Tough gives many examples of teachers working with students and communities to promote change in communities, teach to the whole child, and show how impactful these relationships can be for a child.

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Understanding: Non cognitive skills like self control and curiosity play an important role in children's success even more than academic skills.  Tough argues that fostering these traits require more than just classroom instruction, but creating a supportive environment both at home and in school.  He emphasizes that children thrive when they feel safe, valued, and engaged.  He advocates for approaches that address the emotion and social factors that impact learning.  The goal should be to focus on the whole child as educators and caregivers in order to achieve long term success.

Assertion: ​Its essential to create a nurturing environment at home and in schools to develop skills needed to be successful in child development.  When children feel supported and valued they are better equipped to face challenges and engage in meaningful learning, and ultimately thrive in academic and personal environments.  Education should prioritize the whole child development, addressing emotional and social needs just as much as cognitive growth.

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Understanding: Gaps in a child's executive function (working memory, self-regulation, flexibility, etc.), along with experience in their home and school environment, are critical factors in future success.

Assertion: Professional Development for teachers needs to be more intentional about addressing this. Community programs that teach parenting need to focus on the neurological effect of stress on early development.

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Understanding: The challenges children face are not just from the environment in the classroom but the environment outside the classroom.

Assertion: Equipping parents with the knowledge from this book will help parents reflect, navigate and decide what is best for their child.

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Understanding: The greatest way to help children succeed is to change/augment their learning environment. Example, providing parental support at home and providing classroom management/building relationships professional development for teachers.

Assertion: We need to share the thoughts from this book with parents and teachers so that we can start supporting each other to better support students. Seeing that high expectations with reinforcement have a greater impact on student success than test scores was enlightening.

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Understanding: Helping children succeed is bigger than the classroom setting. As stated in the book, even with No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Success Act initiatives, many students have fallen into the cracks. These discrepancies are all over America and continue to happen.

Assertion: Author Paul Tough provides examples and success stories of how to help more students succeed. My response to us knowing what to do is why aren’t more districts following this exemplar model and implementing the key findings. Is it a funding or time issue?

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Understanding: Students of all types learn the best from having academic struggles they have overcome. It gives them the confidence that they can understand and overcome things. Giving students information and having them repeat it back, is not what develops the skills they need to be successful in life.

Assertion: As educators, we need to provide students with opportunities to have a productive struggle. It is important to create an environment where students are allowed to make mistakes but learn from them to succeed. It can be easier to just give students the information, but it is more productive to have them develop and come to their own understanding.

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Understanding:The stress experienced by students from low-income backgrounds impacts all aspects of their lives. They often face food insecurity compared to their peers. Students may experience chronic stress, which makes it difficult for them to remain calm under pressure and hampers their ability to develop the skills needed to succeed in challenging situations.

Assertion: Educators must prioritize the needs of these students and provide them with the tools necessary to build confidence and emotional resilience, helping them better cope with stress.

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Understanding: The insertion of the Fryer Study on incentives proved not to be as successful as a positive reinforcement as planned. Many administrators will focus on or suggest incentives without thinking of the audience.

Assertion: The book highlights that many Teachers and Students will see incentives as work (job) and, in turn, counteract the desired outcome. TIA!!!

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Understanding: Students that come from poverty need to have sense of belonging like a relationship and connection in order to decrease their stress and their automatic "fight or flight" mode in a learning environment.

Assertion: Teachers need to learn how to build a relationship with their students and create a safe environment first to be able to effectively teach and students can learn better.

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Understanding: The challenges that children face is not just in the environment classroom but the environment the children have outside of the classroom that affects their success.

Assertion: Equipping parents with knowledge from this book would be help them navigate, reflect and make a decision on what is best for their child.

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Understanding: Students that come from poverty need to have sense of belonging like a relationship and connection in order to decrease their stress and their automatic "flight or fight" mode in a learning environment.

Assertion: Teachers need to learn how to build a relationship with their students and create a safe environment first to be able to effectively teach and students can better learn.

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Understanding: The adversity that children undergo can be remedied, for the most part, but it is only able to be done with a conscious effort and desire for a changed outcome. It’s not poverty, it's the stress of poverty that is the culprit.

Assertion: We need to communicate with people (students, parents, and teachers) about the things in this book. Parents need to know the effects of their decisions and how to mitigate them and why they should.