Use the Brain's Resilience to Teach Beyond Poverty
Post written by Clare Struck, a 2011 ASCD Conference Scholar, is an elementary counselor at the Malcolm Price Laboratory School (PLS) in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and an instructor for the school counseling practicum at the University of Northern Iowa. PLS is the 2010 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award recipient. Originally featured in ASCD Express.
“Teaching with Poverty in Mind,” an ASCD Annual Conference session by Eric Jensen, had a strong influence on me and encouraged me to take actions to support the students I work with as an elementary school counselor, as well as the school counseling graduate students I supervise.
Much of the data on brain-related research and kids in poverty that Jensen shared in his session was