A Framework for Understanding Poverty Workbook

by Ruby K. Payne

This newly updated workbook and workshop accompanies the foundational Framework training, and provides in-depth information to help participants understand class differences and improve learning. This workbook is newly framed around 10 actions with concrete strategies that you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact—reduced discipline referrals, improved relationships with students, and some key instructional strategies to raise achievement. This workbook is based on the book A Framework for Understanding Poverty, also by Dr. Payne.

100 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Ruby K. Payne is an American educator and author best known for her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty and her work on the culture of poverty and its relation to education. Payne received an undergraduate degree from Goshen College in 1972. She holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from Loyola University in Illinois, and is the founder of aha! Process, Inc., a company that informs schools, companies and other organizations about poverty.