Why Poverty Matters - How WE Can Matter More

Learn more about briding the socioeconomic needs of your students and the incredible role you play in that progress:

• Understand the potential negative impact of financial poverty on brain development and school and life success

• Redefine poverty as the absence of any resource (financial, socio-emotional, physical, cognitive, or spiritual) that creates barriers to school and life success

• Take away authentic strategies for removing barriers that emerge when resources are absent