Emotional Poverty 2

Introduction

Welcome! I'm Brittany Dougherty and happy to be back. The work that I was able to do with Ruby Payne's Emotional Poverty in all Demographics: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom and offer as an on-demand book study through the Tioga County Teacher's Center has been such a success, that I have continued it.  While Emotional Poverty Volume 2: Safer Students and Less-Stressed Teachers is a follow up to the first study, it is not absolutely necessary to have participated in the first book study to participate in this one.  

Emotional Poverty  focused on these basic concepts:

• Emotional wellness in based on safety and belonging

• It is difficult to change behavior; instead we change the motivation for the behavior, which then changes the behavior

• The difference between healthy and unhealthy behaviors is compassion

• Schools need consequences; it's our approach that needs to change

• The amygdala is structured by age 3 and restructured at adolescence

• Emotions are relatively simple - your are either moving toward something or away from something

• To change a behavior or response, we have to be able to name it

For Emotional Poverty Volume 2, following Ruby Payne's Model, I will teach:

• How to identify "tells" of a student in distress

• How to reset a student's energy system to lessen stress and calm a student

• The development of adolescent brains

• How to develop the prefrontal cortex and build emotional resilience in students

• How the hippocampus develops stories of ourselves through co-authors, and early experiences that shape adulthood

• Tools for adults who are stressed and have compassion fatigue or secondary traumatic stress

• How to work with angry, emotional parents and adults

Goals:  

• Provide educators tools to read the emotional body language of students  

• Provide strategies for regulation of behavior from the prefrontal cortex  

• Identify key issues in the brain development of adolescents  

• Understand the hippocampus and its creation of stories that guide behavior and identity  

• Learn strategies to reduce adult stress and compassion fatigue  

• Use a brain-based approach to the emotional realities of parents and parenting 

Teacher Participation for CTLE hours and Compensation:

While the podcasts can be listened to at any time for any level of engagement, any teacher who would like to use these podcasts and resources to earn CTLE hours, can earn the hours and compensation through the Tioga County Teacher’s Center as a book study! The book study through the Tioga County Teacher's Center will allow you a copy of Ruby Payne's text that is the focus of the podcast - Emotional Poverty Volume 2: Safer Students and Less-Stressed Teachers.  There are a series of discussion and review questions for each podcast. Completion and submission of those tasks will qualify teachers to earn $40/hour, for 8 hours of work and reflection.  Feel free to email me with questions, or to get your free copy of Emotional Poverty 2 for the book study: bdougherty@nvcs.stier.org