Ruby Payne PhD Speech Topics
Research-Based Strategies
Serve under-resourced students with hands-on techniques that help you narrow and then close the achievement gap. Reduce planning time, improve effectiveness, and develop more immediate, reliable intervention strategies. Most importantly, employ best practices to address student challenges before...
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Removing the Mask: Identifying and Serving Gifted Students from Poverty
School districts struggle to identify giftedness in students from poverty. Do the demographics of your gifted and talented program accurately reflect the demographics of your campus? If not, this book provides solid research and adaptable tools to evaluate all students fairly for G/T...
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Emotional Poverty: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in your Classroom
What is emotional poverty? It is when the brain is unintegrated and unregulated, when the bonding and attachment is not secure, and the inner self is under-developed. Why is this important? Increasingly schools are dealing with more students who are angry, anxious and tending to violence...
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
This is the workshop with which Ruby Payne started aha! Process... A Framework for Understanding Poverty—Our foundational workshop provides an understanding of the mindsets of different economic classes and a multitude of strategies for working with children from poverty, middle class, and...
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Identifying and Serving Gifted Students from Poverty
Our process, with ready-to-use instruments and procedures, helps you identify gifted students from poverty. You’ll also learn how to keep these students in the program and help them to be successful.
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Building Strong Communities
Bridges Out of Poverty—This workshop is a powerful tool for change if your school works with families from poverty. Our Bridges offerings give you a way to work with all the stakeholders involved to make a stronger school and community and create opportunities for success. Collaboration for Kids:...
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Meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) with 5 Simple Processes
Learn systemic processes to identify which students need to improve and in what areas, align instruction with standards, and assign time to meet them. Also develop assessments to monitor student growth and identify interventions for students needing additional assistance.
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Engage and Graduate Your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts
Raise your graduation rate! Begin with assessing the costs of dropping out, then review the underlying causes and characteristics affecting decreased student achievement and retention. Learn strategies to engage students and graduate them.
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RtI: Response to Intervention
This session will cover student intervention teams, the rationale behind the RtI mandate, and the intervention process for student achievement.
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The R Rules: A Guide for Teens to Identify and Build Resources
The R Rules is a goal-setting curriculum that high school students use to identify individual interests and then move through career exploration and life skill building.
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Math or Algebra Strategies
Learn to employ an array of math or algebra mental models to help students grasp abstract concepts quickly and retain more information longer.
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Behavior and Classroom Management
Focusing on the under-resourced learner, this session will provide practical strategies for successful classroom management. Option: Use our interactive simulation software.
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Parents Workshops
Working with Parents: Participants will leave this session with dozens of easy-to-implement tips and resources that will build stronger relationships between the school and its families. Also available using our interactive simulation software. Creating Well-Adjusted Boys at Home and at School:...
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