https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo A look into the impact of poverty on education and the impact of education on poverty. en-us 2016-11-05 02:39:12 UTC 2016-11-05 14:37:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524674 In Yard Sale, a young girl experiences her family needing to sell all of their belongings in order to downsize from their comfortable home to a very small apartment. She deals with the grief of losing her bicycle and leaving her friends while questioning will I be sold, too? Yard Sale addresses the fears of any young child in a family experiencing financial hardtimes.]]> 2016-11-05 02:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524674 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524700 In Those Shoes, a young boy wants the cool shoes that everybody at school has. He struggles to find a pair of the "cool" shoes that aren't too expensive for his grandmother to afford. When he finds them, they are too small, but he buys them anyways with his own money. When at school, he notices another boy with raggedy shoes and makes the tough decision to give up his "cool" shoes to help a friend in need.]]> 2016-11-05 02:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524700 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524720 2016-11-05 02:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524720 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524747 The Lunch Thief tells a story of the new boy at school taking his classmates' lunches and hiding away to eat them alone during lunchtime. One student discovers the reason why the Lunch Thief is stealing their lunches and finds a way to help him with food and friendship in his heartbreaking situation.]]> 2016-11-05 02:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524747 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524768 Maddi's Fridge tells the tale of two young girls who are the best of friends. One day one of the girls, Sofia, discovers her best friend, Maddi, has an empty fridge and she tries to help get her food so that she "can have milk too." Sofia has to break a promise in order to get Maddi the food that she needs, but in the end both girls find a way to help eachother out in a way they both need. This is a story of accepting someone and their hardships and finidng a way to be there and help out.]]> 2016-11-05 02:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524768 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524815 Lend a Hand is a series of poems addressing the ways in which we, as citizens and community members, can "lend a hand" to those around us. The poems address issues of poverty and being a kind person.]]> 2016-11-05 02:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524815 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524841 Last Stop on Market Street is the tale of a young boy and his grandmother taking the bus to a low-income part of town. The young boy questions all of the things that he sees and asks for better. His grandmother teaches him to see the beauty in what he has as they walk in to help at the soup kitchen.]]> 2016-11-05 02:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524841 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524882 A Shelter in Our Car shares the experience and the anguish of a mother and her young child living out of their car. It shares the fear of being stopped by the police, not being safe, or not having enough money to eat each night. The story shares the difficulty of the mother finding a job to provide better for her young child.]]> 2016-11-05 02:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524882 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524947 Uncle Willie works at a soup kitchen and when his nephew has the day off from school he wants to go and see it for himself. The nephew, who normally is skiddish around people in poverty (the Can Man or the Lady on the Bench), learns that they are people in need and that he can help them. ]]> 2016-11-05 02:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135524947 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525006 1. How do we teach students in poverty most effectively and help them to be academically successful?
2. How can we break the cycle of poverty through education?]]> 2016-11-05 02:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525006 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525063 This video from 60 minutes shares the experience of two children and their father living out of a van. It also shares the stories of other students living in different types of "homes." At the end of the video, it shares facts about students, poverty, and education.]]> 2016-11-05 02:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525063 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525066 2016-11-05 02:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525066 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525089 This video shows how Dr. Anderson turned a failing school district around to help the community get a quality education while taking care of their needs (healthcare, laundry, food, childcare). Dr. Anderson was able to create new programs and provide students and families with the things they needed so that they could receive a quality education and break the cycle of poverty.]]> 2016-11-05 02:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525089 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525106 This article addresses facts about poverty in relation to education. It includes what the poverty line means, dropout rates, and how poverty impacts student preparation for school.]]> 2016-11-05 03:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525106 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525123 2016-11-05 03:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525123 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525129 This article is actually a chapter out of the book Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen. It addresses the emotional/social challenges, stressors, cognitive delays, and health/safety issues of poverty impacting education and how it can be addressed and supported in the classroom.]]> 2016-11-05 03:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525129 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525144 This article starts with the poignant quote "some say we can't fix education until we fix poverty. It's the exact opposite; we can't fix poverty, until we fix education." This article addresses some of the statistics regarding poverty and education. It then shares ways that we as educators can help reach students in poverty and truly help them and provide them with an education they deserve.]]> 2016-11-05 03:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525144 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525176 This video shares a tool teacher, Kyle Schwartz, uses in her classroom to get to know her students better. She has her students fill out cards that finish the sentence "I wish my teacher knew..." which is a way for her to understand them and help them out in ways she might not have otherwise known.]]> 2016-11-05 03:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525176 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525436 In this TED talk, Kandice Sumner shares her story of growing up in a lower income area, but having the ability to be bussed to another school to get a "better" education. She recalls struggling to understand how she was getting certain privileges at her suburban schools that her neighbors in the inner city were not getting. Now as a teacher in the inner city school that she was "saved from", she discusses how she wants to give her students what they deserve, but lacks the resources to do. This video addresses how education impacts poverty immensely.]]> 2016-11-05 03:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135525436 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526738 This comic shows the impact poverty has on education and education has on poverty. Education has the power to break through the poverty barrier between student and school, but changes need to be made in our approaches and policies to education.]]> 2016-11-05 04:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526738 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526743 2016-11-05 04:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526743 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526781 This quote by Nelson Mandela explains that we have caused poverty to be how it is and we, as humans, are the ones to fix it. As educators, we have the power to impact poverty in a very powerful way, but change must occur.]]> 2016-11-05 04:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526781 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526785 2016-11-05 04:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526785 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526865 2016-11-05 04:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526865 skapikea https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526875 This image shows education and a happy life pointing in one direction and shows poverty pointing in the opposite direction. This image symbolizes the disconnect of education being for those leading a happy life, while it distances those in poverty rather than helping them to have a happy life.]]> 2016-11-05 04:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/skapikea/j1ewg9njdylo/wish/135526875