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The AFFLUENT GHETTO The Affluent Ghetto is a project in progress started by Jessica Ramos focusing on social justice within urban education highlighting the disparities within education, especially in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods predominantly seen in areas of color.  Our goal is to close the gap in achievement, bringing opportunities to students so they can have the tools for success.  The Affluent Ghetto believes awareness is the first step in facilitating change.  We want to personally thank CEO/Founder Louis Gray of the Gray’s Project for his continued support and collaboration.   Mr. Gray is known for being selective and only endorses organizations he has verified and is familiar with. The Affluent Ghetto is a new project but has made some great strides for its presence in the community and with local families within the central Florida area.  The Affluent Ghetto will continue to work with the Gray’s Project and their mission of one child a...

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Domestic Violence & Children Exposed to Violence Resource guide General Rose Thelen, Gender Violence Institute. June 2000. [http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/bwjp/communityv/communityv.html] Best or promising practices for family violence: reference list. National Center for State Courts. [http://www.ncsonline.org/WC/Publications/KIS_FamVioBest.pdf] End Abuse, Family Violence Prevention Fund. [http://endabuse.org/programs/printable/display.php3?DocID=73] Center for Impact Research Policy Center [http://www.impactresearch.org/policycenter/policy.html] Children exposed to domestic violence handbooks. Children exposed to domestic violence: a teacher’s handbook to increase understanding and improve community responses (2002) L. L. Baker, P.G. Jaffe, L. M. Ashbourne & J. Carter. [http://www.lfcc.on.ca/teacher-us.PDF]  Children exposed to domestic violence: a handbook for youth justice workers to increase understanding and improve community respons...

Domestic Violence & Children Exposed to Violence Resource guide General Rose Thelen, Gender Violence Institute. June 2000. [http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/bwjp/communityv/communityv.html] Best or promising practices for family violence: reference list. National Center for State Courts. [http://www.ncsonline.org/WC/Publications/KIS_FamVioBest.pdf] End Abuse, Family Violence Prevention Fund. [http://endabuse.org/programs/printable/display.php3?DocID=73] Center for Impact Research Policy Center [http://www.impactresearch.org/policycenter/policy.html] Children exposed to domestic violence handbooks. Children exposed to domestic violence: a teacher’s handbook to increase understanding and improve community responses (2002) L. L. Baker, P.G. Jaffe, L. M. Ashbourne & J. Carter. [http://www.lfcc.on.ca/teacher-us.PDF]  Children exposed to domestic violence: a handbook for youth justice workers to increase understanding and improve community respons...

Pushed Out Blogs and Articles: Race and Ethnicity Discipline and Behavior Printer-friendly version Number 36: Fall 2009 Eight year-old “Jenny” was suspended from her third-grade class for two days for bringing a pair of cuticle scissors to open the wrapper on her school breakfast. Under the school’s zero tolerance policy, Jenny’s teacher believed she had no choice but to report Jenny to the principal. Humiliated and traumatized, Jenny missed two days of school, and now has a suspension on her permanent school record.  “Joseph” was 13 when the bullying against him started. Under his school’s strict discipline rules, all students involved in a fight received the same punishment, regardless of who started it. After several fights that resulted in repeated, multi-day, out-of-school suspensions, Joseph fell further and further behind, failed the seventh grade, and became increasingly alienated from his school. He eventually dropped out. These stories ar...

The School-to-Prison Pipeline Blogs and Articles: Discipline and Behavior Printer-friendly version Number 43: Spring 2013 Illustration by Chris Buzelli In Meridian, Miss., police routinely arrest and transport youths to a juvenile detention center for minor classroom misbehaviors. In Jefferson Parish, La., according to a U.S. Department of Justice complaint, school officials have given armed police “unfettered authority to stop, frisk, detain, question, search and arrest schoolchildren on and off school grounds.” In Birmingham, Ala., police officers are permanently stationed in nearly every high school. In fact, hundreds of school districts across the country employ discipline policies that push students out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system at alarming rates—a phenomenon known as the school-to-prison pipeline. Last month, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., held the first federal hearing on the school-to-prison pipeline—an important ste...

Toolkit for “School-to-Prison Pipeline Infographic” Grade Level: Pre K to K Grades 1 to 2 Grades 3 to 5 Grades 6 to 8 Grades 9 to 12 In the majority of schools, the response to discipline issues is driven by administrators, counselors and, in a growing trend, by school resource officers and law law-enforcement officials. However, next to parents and families, classroom teachers are the adults with whom our students spend the most time. Classroom teachers often know their students better than anyone in the school. Teachers are on the front lines of their students’ growth and development, and their daily decisions can help divert students from the school-to-prison pipeline. Teaching Tolerance offers a framework for how classroom teachers can help reroute the school-to-prison pipeline by shifting the approach they take toward students, from a punitive one to a responsive one. What follows are five shifts a teacher can make to keep students in school and out of the sc...

A Teacher's Guide to Rerouting the Pipeline Blogs and Articles: Discipline and Behavior Printer-friendly version Number 43: Spring 2013 Principals, school resource officers, probation officers and social workers are typically charged with responding to school discipline problems. But in reality, classroom teachers spend the most time with students. Their daily decisions can help divert students from the school-to-prison pipeline. MEET MICHAEL Michael is 15 and repeating the ninth grade. He’s in your world history class and habitually tilts his chair back and drums annoyingly on his desk with a pencil. This morning, he was doing it—again—while you were trying to teach. What do you do? A punitive teacher might take the pencil away, kick Michael out of class, or even refer him for disciplinary action. But there’s always the opportunity to reflect and be more responsive. Responsive teachers shift their reactions in important ways. They adopt a soci...

Toolkit for “School-to-Prison Pipeline Infographic”  In the majority of schools, the response to discipline issues is driven by administrators, counselors and, in a growing trend, by school resource officers and law law-enforcement officials. However, next to parents and families, classroom teachers are the adults with whom our students spend the most time. Classroom teachers often know their students better than anyone in the school. Teachers are on the front lines of their students’ growth and development, and their daily decisions can help divert students from the school-to-prison pipeline. Teaching Tolerance offers a framework for how classroom teachers can help reroute the school-to-prison pipeline by shifting the approach they take toward students, from a punitive one to a responsive one. What follows are five shifts a teacher can make to keep students in school and out of the school-to-prison pipeline. Shift 1: Adopt a social emotional lens. T...

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Slide Show: Extending the Reach of Excellent Teachers in Share 0 Print page Why does every child need consistent access to excellent teachers, and how can we, today, extend the reach of the excellent teachers our nation already has? This slide show, based on the infographic developed by Pubic Impact and Column Five, has the answers. It illustrates four ways schools can use job redesign and technology to put excellent teachers in charge of every student’s learning. It also highlights the role of extending these teachers’ reach in building an “Opportunity Culture” in which excellent teachers, other educators, and students can excel. Click the arrow to play. Use the fast-forward, rewind, and pause buttons if needed. http://opportunityculture.org/multimedia/slideshow/

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Teacher Career Paths in Share 0 Print page Updated Career Paths and New Compensation Help Coming in 2014! Today, most advancement opportunities in education remove teachers from direct responsibility for students, increase work loads, confer little real authority to lead peers, and either pay no more or provide temporary pay increases from grants. Most do not make the best use of great teachers’ valuable time. But an Opportunity Culture offers teachers multiple career paths that greatly expand their opportunities while substantially enhancing student learning. The career paths in these documents match Public Impact’s school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within budget , with many new roles that enable all teachers and staff to develop and contribute to excellence.  Summary of Teacher Career Paths  Teacher, Leader, and Paraprofessional Career Paths   Career Paths that Respect Teachers   Teac...