When seeking community input, often the question asked is “What services do you need?” Without a larger frame of reference, responses tend to be personal and short term. A better way is to provide a frame of reference related to a gap in outcomes identified from a systematic needs assessment. Community input should be solicited…
Month: January 2022
Ruby Payne stresses the importance of teaching cognitive strategies as essential to help students from poverty be successful in school and life. Her logic goes something like this: If an individual lives in a random, episodic and unpredictable environment, he or she has not developed the ability to PLAN. If and individual cannot plan, he/she…