Trauma, Ability & Poverty

Focus Question

How do our beliefs impact the language that we use about our students and families?

Resources

• Deficit Ideology (video, ~4 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ysj3iLY9cc&t=2s

• How poverty affects classrooms (video, ~4 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_dJ7G0Xvk

• Critique of Ruby Payne (article) https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2016/questioning-payne

• Debunking the Culture of Poverty and Victim Blaming (video, ~13 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JN1y0wv7Kg

• The Myth of the Culture of Poverty (article) http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr08/vol65/num07/The-Myth-of-the-Culture-of-Poverty.aspx

• Why we need UDL (video, ~10 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVdPNWMGyZY

• We are All Different (video, ~5 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQuM5e0QGLg

• How Does Poverty Influence learning (article) https://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-does-poverty-influence-learning-william-parrett-kathleen-budge

• Teaching a Class with Big Ability Differences (article) https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-class-big-ability-differences-todd-finley

• When Schools Cause Trauma (article) https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/summer-2019/when-schools-cause-trauma

• Understanding Trauma: Learning Brain vs Survival Brain. (video, ~5 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoqaUANGvpA

• The Myth of the Culture of Poverty (slides) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o3I-BwxFCY8V-0B63NT4YSIHHu0qD_6MJeFqLO6eR9k/edit?usp=sharing