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What Being Poor Does to Kids Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
Author Eric Jensen
Effects of Poverty
in Children
Chronic Tardiness
Excessive Absences
Numerous safety
hazards in home
environment and
neighborhoods
Lags in language
skills, working
memory, and
cognitive control
Adverse adaptive
responses in brain
development, causing lags
in self-capacities and sense of
mastery of environment
Lack of Motivation
Inappropriate Behavior
Acute/Chronic
Stressors
Emotional/Social
Challenges
Cognitive Lags
Health/Safety Issues
Learned Helplessness
Opportunities to read
and write outside of the
classroom setting
Two-parent households
with more access to financial resources and
extra-curricular activities
Attentive, conversational
communication in the
home that promotes
problem solving skills
Change Pity
to Empathy
Find the
factors that
cause the
misbehavior..
Taking Action
Neuroplasticity
Brains are designed to reflect the
environments theyre in, not rise
above them.
Neuroplasticity: allows regionspecific changes to occur in the
brain as a result of experience.
Deficits in crucial needs inhibit
the production of new brain cells
and rework the healthy circuitry
in childrens brains.
Ingrained Drives in
students
ACTION STEPS
1. Reliable relationships
2.
Strengthening of peer
Socialization
CLASSROOM DEMEANOR
SUCCESS CORNER
BE inclusive and use familial language such Research shows that common characteristics of
successful schools with high poverty rates inas our school, our class.
clude: