Kevin Store, executive director of Portage Health Foundation in Hancock, Michigan, discuss the difference Getting Ahead has made in the lives of people in this Bridges community.

Poverty Series–Part IV

Campuswide Interventions

That Improve

Student Achievement

by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

Poverty Series–Part III

Working with Students

from Poverty: Discipline

by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

Poverty Series–Part II

Building Learning Structures

Inside the Head

by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

Poverty Series–Part I

Understanding and

Working with Students

and Adults from Poverty

by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

Will teaching ever be worth it?

Bad news first: Teachers, especially new teachers, are often undervalued, underequipped, and unprepared for the reality of high-poverty classrooms. The result is frustration, fear, and a loss of idealism and enthusiasm, fatal flaws for someone facing 30 fourth-graders and a besieged principal every day. Hopelessness can set in fast.

But before you quit, realize this: Not only can you survive, you can experience the joy and satisfaction you expected when you first decided to teach. Besides, your students need you.

Bestselling author Ruby Payne, Ph.D. was once where you are now. Her insights and solutions are at once personal and professional, and they will help guide you to the knowledge, resources, and mindset you need to create a future story of success and satisfaction.

It takes more than financial resources to get out of poverty. An excerpt from Chapter 1 of the fifth edition of Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities by Ruby Payne, Phil DeVol, and Terie Dreussi-Smith, with Eugene Krebs.

Hear Tammie Heuck from Bridges of Sublette County in Wyoming discuss resource coaching in her community with aha! Process author and consultant Ruth Weirich.

Bridges Out of Poverty authors Ruby Payne, Phil DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith, and Gene Krebs discuss the fifth edition of the book. They are joined by aha! Process consultants Kate Daneker, Ruth Weirich, Nicole Baptiste, and Mike Saccocio, along with Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World facilitator Jesse Quintana.

Phil DeVol, Tosin Adeyemo, and Lorraine Kelly talk about the experience of immigration and participating in Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World groups.