Poverty and Its Effect on Students' Ability to Learn

NYSASCD Symposium:
Poverty and Its Effect on Students' Ability to Learn


Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 

Union College

College Park Hall, 807 Union St. Schenectady, NY 1230

NYSASCD will offer a one day symposium on Tuesday, November 5th at Union College.  It will address an issue that is critical in the United States, poverty and its effect on students’ ability to learn. Research has dramatically shown that children living in chronic poverty can have their ability to learn greatly affected.

In the midst of the global economy, many children are now living in reduced conditions. There is a new type of poverty that has emerged. “Two thirds live in families in which at least one adult works, the percentage of poor students in many rural districts equal that in inner-city districts. The economic downturn in the US has dramatically changed the landscape, and districts that were previously vibrant are now dealing with unemployment, underemployment, and transient families” (Pod Cast ASCD, 2013).

NYSASCD’s goal for this symposium is to bring this issue to light and to help educators not only understand it but take action in finding solutions.

Keynote Speaker
Beth Lindsay Templeton
Author, Understanding Poverty in the Classroom

Panel Discussion
·        Dr. Janet Angelis, Director, Know Your Schools~for NY Kids, University at Albany School of Education
·        Mr. David Griffin, Director of Policy -  ASCD (our national organization)
·        Dr. Bruce Frase, Executive Director, NYS Rural Schools
·        Mary DeMasi, Director of Policy and Research,  Council on Children and Families
·        Dr. Marguerite Wyngarrd, Supt. Albany City Schools

Breakout Sessions
Poverty Simulation - Beth Lindsay Templeton

Influencing Educational Policy  - David Griffin

Innovative Parent and Family Engagement Strategies to Improve Results - Dr.Al Lawson, Professor of Social Welfare & Ed. Admin. & Policy Studies and Katharine Briar-Lawson, the Dean of Social Welfare

Strategies for Increasing Engagement with Poverty in Mind  - Valerie Lovelace, Program Specialist, Greater Capital Region. Teacher Center & Lynne Ogren, a National Board certified teacher in South Colonie CSD.

Teachers Best Practices – A team of a principal and  teachers that have had success working with children living in poverty



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(see registration note below)
Registration Note - When you click on the registration link it will take you to the Capital Region BOCES -  Events & Workshops page. Scroll down to the month of November where you will find the Poverty Symposium. When you click on,   register online,   it will take you to the site to register. If you are a NYSASCD member they will discount you after you enroll as they have the register file of our membership.  NYSASCD members don't have to do anything  to receive that discount.

Interested in how a whole community is dealing with the Issue of Poverty? Click here<http://tracking.runmyclub.com/?a=2580&m=7&n=16561225&s=2cc000003266921&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.schenectadyfoundation.org%2findex%2fgood-news-4%2fnews%2fbridges-to-success-tsfs-community-partnership-conference-november-6-35.html&t=&e=lingertc%40strose.edu&h=64323516> for another wonderful day presented by Schenectady Foundation on November 6th, 2013 at Proctors Theater, Schenectady, NY