Understanding+Poverty


 * A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.**

"A Framework for Understanding Poverty” by Ruby Payne, Ph.D., has provided our faculty and staff with strategies for understanding the correlation between schools, family, community, and individuals in moving from the social and economic status associated with poverty to middle class, and middle class and wealth, through education and relationships.

Essential Questions (EQ)

Chapter 1: Essential Question (EQ) - Contrast and compare how the “hidden rules norms” and the use of “hidden rules of the middle class” influence the correlation between understanding poverty, education, and employment.

Chapter 2: Essential Question (EQ) - Every language has five registers that can move down one register. “What are the consequences of decreasing of two or more registers within the same conversation?

Chapter 3 :  Essential Question (EQ) - Hidden rules include the non-verbal gestures amoung specific groups in society. Within every segment of the population there is a hidden language with a direct correlation between poverty and class. How can survive poverty, middle class, and wealth?

Chapter 4: Essential Question (EQ) - Compare and contrast functional and disfunctional systems? Which systems represent your views?