Payne, Ruby K

Presents a guide to improve student achievements, focusing on eight key concepts, which includes building mutual respect, teaching appropriate behaviors and procedures, using a six step process to keep track of student learning, and more.

Takes a cognitive approach to class and generational poverty; examines and names the experiences of living in poverty, middle class, and wealth; identifies myths about poverty and wealth; details findings about interventions, resources, and causes of poverty, and emphasizes the thinking, communication, and learning patterns involved in breaking out of poverty, with case studies, resources, and more.

Identifies the factors that cause poverty, including the lack of financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical resources; and guides educators and others in understanding poverty and counteracting its effects in the classroom and community.

Describes effective discipline strategies for kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers, discussing bullies, parents, guidelines, consequences, communication, and other related topics.

Provides background information on how and why the strategies outlined in the author's "Learning Structures" workbook are effective, and includes summaries of brain research and cognitive studies.