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A Framework for Understanding Poverty - $25.00

People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth—challenges from both obvious and hidden sources. The reality of being poor brings out a survival mentality, and turns attention away from opportunities taken for granted by everyone else.

If you work with people in poverty, some understanding of how different the world is from yours will be invaluable. Whether you’re an educator —or a social, health or legal services professional—this breakthrough book gives you practical, real-world support and guidance to improve your effectiveness in working with people from all socioeconomic backgrounds.

With a million copies sold since 1996, A Framework for Understanding Poverty has guided of hundreds of thousands of educators and other professionals through the pitfalls and barriers faced by all classes, especially the poor. Carefully researched and packed withy charts, tables, and questionnaires, Framework not only documents the facts of poverty, it provides practical yet compassionate strategies for addressing its impact on people’s lives.

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Understanding Learning: the How, the Why, the What - $10.00

Dr. Payne has written Understanding Learning: the How, the Why, the What to complement her workbook Learning Structures which includes numerous strategies to help students learn vital content while building cognitive abilities. Understanding Learning provides key background information about how and why these strategies work, along with a synopsis of brain research and cognitive studies.

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Working with Parents: Building Relationships for Student Success! - $10.00

Written by Ruby K. Payne, this succinct booklet has 67 pages of tips for successfully working with parents of all of your students.

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Working with Students – Discipline Strategies for the Classroom $15.00
Written by Dr. Payne, this powerful little guide on classroom discipline will help you get a handle on your classroom management. You will discover how to handle different personalities, respond effectively to various types of parenting, set rules and guidelines for behaviors and consequences, reduce inappropriate behaviors and improve student performance.

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Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities - $25.00

Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty.

In a highly readable format you'll find case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organisation can implement right now to:

• Redesign programs to better serve people you work with Build skill sets for management to help guide employees
• Upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers;
• Improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care;
• Increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work.

If your business, agency, or organisation works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges-and strengths-will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success.

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A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) Workbook (sold at training only) - $10.00

This participant's workbook is designed to accompany the Day One training A Framework for Understanding Poverty. It includes charts and graphs, resource review scenarios, other activities, and note-taking outlines

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A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words: a Developmentally Appropriate Approach to Early Learning - $20.00

Parents don't get an owner's manual with each child. There are no instructions to read or customer service technicians to call. Teachers, while trained professionals, have to deal with a new group of students each year. Many students are coming from backgrounds increasingly different than their own, making it difficult to establish a long-term bond. Matthew (Matt) S. Seebaum, a veteran educator with years of early childhood teaching experience, wrote A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words for those parents and educators who could benefit from practical tools to aid in dealing with young children.

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Crossing the Tracks for Love - $20.00

Crossing the Tracks™ is a guide for successfully negotiating the barriers that divide economic classes. It explores the ways that people from poverty, middle class, and wealth view the world and operate within it in terms of intimacy, gender roles, employment, entertainment, decision-making, raising children, dealing with in-laws, food and dining, and free time. This powerful book exposes the mindsets and attitudes that trigger conflict between people of different economic classes, and provides solutions you can use immediately to improve your relationships, smooth your own transition between classes, increase opportunities for someone you care about, and move confidently in any social setting.

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Hear Our Cry - Boys in Crisis - $25.00

Having witnessed newfound freedom for girls and women during the past two decades, researchers and educators are now turning their attention to the lack of simultaneous growth and autonomy among boys and men. Dr. Paul Slocumb has made this real-time crisis his focus, turning his insight on boys and their pain. He creates a riveting portrait of the emotional abyss that engulfs many of our male children. Particularly powerful are the book's six true case studies and the creative solutions he provides.

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Hidden Rules of Class at Work - $25.00

Hidden Rules of Class at Work is written for people who supervise others. It provides tools to identify an individual's strengths and weaknesses by looking at his/her resources, an understanding of how economic class influences opportunities to develop resources, an understanding of how economic class influences - often subtly yet significantly - behaviors that show up in the workplace and an understanding of how the levels of an organisation reflect the hidden rules of class.

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Living on a Tightrope: a Survival Handbook for Principals - $25.00

While instructional leadership has been the principal's primary role as identified in educational literature, the reality is that the principal's role has become one of crisis management and an almost judicial approach to legal issues. Written from their experience as principals and based on research from the education and business realms, Bill and Ruby outline their current thoughts on how to survive in the daily work. It is like walking a tightrope.

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Mr. Base Ten Invents Mathematics - $25.00

This intriguing story provides mental models that teach mathematical concepts at the foundational level. A glove maker who starts by sewing finger covers leads to his invention of place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and regrouping. He marries Decimal Point, and their children are Fractions. Newly available, it is printed in hard cover for long lasting classroom or home use. It is written by Bethanie Tucker, author of Tucker Signing Strategies for reading.

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Parenting Someone Else's Child -- The Foster Parents' How-To Manual - $25.00

Ann Stressman wrote this book after hearing Ruby Payne speak about the hidden rules of economic class, combining that perspective into her two decades of personal experience with foster care agencies and the special children needing care. The result is a "nothing can surprise me" compilation of very helpful and enlightening approaches for hundreds of the parenting situations that arise. Dr. Payne has contributed a chapter in the book for how to help children in school, and Stressman includes information for grandparents and adoptive parents as well.

A wealth of information for parents told with humor and grace by a person who has fostered more than 100 children.

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Putting the Pieces Together (Day Three) Workbook - $15.00

This workbook teaches additional classroom strategies, building on mental modules concepts introduced in Learning Structures (Day Two). It includes many activities and ideas to move students from the concrete to the abstract. Concepts are not content-based; however, the application of strategies focusing on specific subject areas is explored. This book is designed for elementary level educators and core subject secondary level educators.

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Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty - $30.00

Our educational culture typically categorizes students based upon identified needs. When the mainstream program does not appear to meet students' needs, they generally are categorized and aligned with a special program that more closely addresses those needs. The placement of gifted/talented students in special programs has generated identification processes that emphasize fairness, ignoring the very discrepancies that have created the differences in the students. Under the guise of fairness, students are treated equally, but equity is compromised in the process.

Free Bonus Supplement: Establishing Local Norm

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Think Rather of Zebra: Dealing with Aspects of Poverty Through Story - $20.00

Think Rather of Zebra is a delightful collection of short stories crafted and adapted from more than 40 classic and modern folktales by Jay Stailey who reset them in an urban neighborhood. The book follows two main characters, Carlos and Pete, as they tell stories from their neighborhood and share the lessons of poverty. The stories that these two characters tell are insightful, particularly to readers who come from a middle-class or wealthy background.

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What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty - $25.00

Churches often are perceived as open, welcoming environments, and many times that's true. But congregations, without even realizing it, sometimes make themselves inhospitable to people from poverty. For those situations, Dr. Ruby K. Payne and Rev. William (Bill) Ehlig wrote What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty.

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Video Series: Meeting Standards and Raising Test Scores When You Don't Have Much Time or Money (4 videos/training manual) $1,095.00

This four video series is a "How-To" when it comes to making systemic improvements that result in real improvements -- in student achievement, in state assessments and in teaching in ways that count. Highly recommended! IT WORKS! (Tapes are about 30 min each.)

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Resource Manual: Meeting Standards and Raising Test Scores $20.00

This manual is a supplement to the training manual for the workshop titled "Meeting Standards and Raising Test Scores When You Don't Have Much Time or Money." The manual contains student writing samples that have been scored by teachers, sample campus plans, and sample assessments.

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Videos: Preventing School Violence by Creating Emotional Safety (5 videos/manual) - $1150.00

In the wake of Columbine, Colorado, Dr. Ruby K. Payne puts her considerable skill and experience with children to work in this five-part video series aimed at offering practical suggestions to preventing violence in our schools. The videos come with a training manual, a set of overhead transparencies and a facilitator's manual.

Working from the belief that having more school metal detectors, security cameras and armed guards is not the way to prevent violence, Ruby developed a concept to create emotional safety at school. She believes students don't engage in violent activity, don't bring weapons to school, don't cause disruptions, when they feel that adults care about them and what happens to them. This does not mean students expect teachers to become their friends, but actions by adults that signal care and concern can greatly reduce students' inclination toward violent behavior.

"Preventing Violence by Creating Emotional Safety" is a useful tool for personnel in any school district concerned about the well-being and safety of students. The videos may be purchased by any school or district or they can be used as a reinforcement tool by individuals who attend the seminar entitled: "Preventing School Violence by Creating Emotional Safety."

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CD: Powerpoint Presentation - Preventing School Violence by Creating Emotional Safety - $30.00

This powerpoint presentation on CD is designed to accompany the videotape series: "Preventing School Violence by Creating Emotional Safety".

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Take-Home Books for Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading By Melinda C. Ausband - $25.00

The Take-Home Books manual provides a teacher with easy-to-copy pages for producing 44 fold and staple "take-home books" to accompany Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading, paralleling the Tucker training manual with a "book" for each lesson. It's a perfect complement, providing additional high-interest, low-cost materials that children can take home and read successfully. The stories, the humor and drawings appeal to children - they want to take them home.

Take-Home Books is designed for teacher use after learning the Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading.

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Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading -- Video & Training Manual Set - $150.00

Dr. Bethanie Tucker, her colleagues and students answer your questions about the highly touted Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading on this video tape. The last half is devoted to demonstrating each of the 44 signs, with instructions and words for each. Comes with a training manual.

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CD: Tucker Signing Strategies Reference Cards - $30.00

This CD contains photos of all 44 Tucker signs which may be printed and laminated in the size of your choice.

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The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra $20.00

Students missing concepts needed for algebra? Positive and negative numbers, exponents, and linear equations are among the algebraic concepts illuminated in this medieval story featuring Al and Gebra, teenage superheroes who make algebra understandable and fun.

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A Framework for Understanding Poverty – Trainer Certification DVD Series $2,250.00

This DVD series is designed as a training tool to be used exclusively by those who are certified through the aha! Process, Inc. "Trainer Certification" program. These DVD’s teach educators how to take the lessons of Framework and bring them to life in their schools. Five of the DVDs feature a classroom demonstration of the learning structures concept.

Once an educator has completed the "Trainer Certification" program, he/she is certified to conduct school-or district-wide seminars using A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Learning Structures for a period of two years. The taped series may be used for that purpose and is also a refresher course for the seminar.

For certified trainers only -- to purchase these items, please supply the date and location of your Train the Trainers certification on the order form.

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