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Poverty has a synergistic and pervasive negative impact on children’s brains. Given the many developmental windows occurring in childhood, poverty often wreaks havoc on the brain’s ability to grow and function optimally.
In this workshop, participants will learn the specific impact of poverty on the developing brain, the outcomes of that damage in the classroom and the community, and the interventions that can be used to overcome poverty’s effects. Specific, research based strategies for combating the negative impact of poverty on learning will be introduced for infants, preschool
and school aged children.
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience have revealed that the brain is a dynamic and changing organ — particularly in childhood. Known as “neuroplasticity,” the brain’s ability to change and grow through exposure to environmental stimulus offers exciting new approaches and strategies for educators, parents and child serving professionals working with children of poverty. The impoverished brain can be changed significantly for the better and these techniques provide you with the tools to begin transforming young minds. These interventions are categorized into learning improvement and emotional/behavioral improvement. The learning improvement
category describes the enrichment model, a practical, low cost, integrated structure for remediating and accelerating acquisition, retention, and application of information in the impoverished brain. Consisting of eight (8) fundamental practices, the enrichment model provides a coherent, sensible and “doable” method for counteracting poverty influences on learning. The emotional/ behavioral category, likewise, provides techniques that are practical, meaningful, and effective; these techniques are organized into seven (7) strategies that powerfully impact the emotional (and, consequently, behavioral) health of the brains of children and youth from poverty.
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