Emotional Poverty Two-Volume Set

Description

Emotional Poverty

Address anger, anxiety, and violence in the classroom with strategies and best practices that work in classrooms. Under-resourced students, wealthy students, and students in all demographics can benefit from calming and healing techniques Ruby Payne, author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty, shares in this book.

• Provides understandings of origins of anger, anxiety, and avoidance
• Gives a language to talk about brain regulation, integration, and emotional competence
• Provides tools for educators to address and reduce anger, anxiety, and avoidance
• Helps educators manage the “classroom dance” that occurs between the educator and the students
• Provides the tools to motivate good behavior
• Identifies the differences in male and female emotional processing

“It was one of the most riveting speeches I have ever heard you give, and it gave us a sense of reassurance we all desperately needed. People cannot wait to get your book on emotional poverty. The information you provide can and will save the lives of so many children.”

—Jimmy C. Stokes, Ed.D.

Georgia Association of Educational Leaders
Athens, Georgia

Emotional Poverty, Volume 2

Has teaching ever felt more stressful?

External pressures, environmental factors, previous experiences, fear, anger—all these and more create stress and tension in the classroom. Emotional distress interrupts and can harm—even destroy—effective teaching, learning, and emotional wellness in teachers and students.

But how do these emotions develop in you and your students? The fact is many of us suffer from some form of emotional poverty. Think of it as an absence of emotional resilience or resources. Written for educators, not psychologists, Emotional Poverty, Volume 2 helps you understand and overcome emotional poverty so you can build more effective classrooms and safer schools.

You’ll get:

• Practical strategies for creating a more emotionally healthy classroom
• Deeper understandings of adolescent brain development
• Cues to recognize emotional stress in yourself and students
• Techniques to develop a student’s prefrontal cortex and build emotional resilience
• Tools to overcome your stress, compassion fatigue, or secondary traumatic stress
• Solutions for dealing with angry, emotional parents and other adults

“A game-changer. Ruby offers practical strategies that can be easily implemented, plus the science of why students act the way they do and how to support them.” 

–Hilary Sloat, Principal, Hilliard Horizon Elementary School, Hilliard, Ohio

“Another powerful work for educators who are yearning for social/emotional strategies to help support students, parents, and even staff members.”

–Billy Pringle, TASSP Associate Executive Director, Austin, Texas

“Prophetic. Written prior to the 2020 pandemic, beyond its overall relevance it can guide our plans support the emotional recovery of our students, their parents, and ourselves.”

–Bethanie H. Tucker, Ed.D., Author of Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading, Alton, Virginia