Nurturing Resilience Virtual Sessions

These sessions will be focused on Nurturing Resilience - healing trauma, defying poverty, and igniting potential through education. Dr. Beegle will focus on poverty and the impact on students and how teachers can support them. Sign up for one session or attend all four. (times listed are central time):

• Session 1: Breaking the Iron Cage of Poverty - Thursday, May 9 (6:30-8:00 pm)

Most of the training and research on poverty are conducted by people who have not lived it. Dr. Donna M. Beegle brings an insider perspective, a doctorate in Educational Leadership, and 34 years of research and working with educators in all 50 states to break poverty barriers. This first interactive training session is designed to provide the foundation for breaking poverty barriers to education success. Dr. Beegle engages the audience with practical knowledge allowing a deeper dive into understanding the many different life experiences of poverty and how they impact communication, relationships, and education. Participants will gain four key strategies for improving outcomes for students impacted by poverty.

• Session 2: Communicating and Relating More Effectively Across Poverty Barriers – Saturday, August 10 (1:30-3:00 pm)

Donna M. Beegle grew up surrounded by adults who could not read or write. In school, she did not know the words her teachers used and didn't understand the examples that were provided to explain the words or subject matter. She said “ain't” in almost every other sentence and did not know when to say “gone” or “went,” “seen” or “saw.” Income, educational opportunities, and life experiences shape communication, learning styles, and how we relate to others. In Dr. Beegle’s research with students (and parents) living in the crisis of poverty, 92 percent reported that when they leave helping professionals they do not know what to do next. Students often do not know the words or examples teachers are using. In this highly-interactive workshop, participants will learn the five biggest causes of communication breakdown, explore differences in communication by social class, understand her/his own dominate communication and learning style, gain five proven teaching and learning tools, understand the impact of life experiences on communication styles, and obtain concrete tools for improving communication, relationships, and follow through.
 

• Session 3: An Action Approach For Educating Students Who Live in the Crisis of Poverty - Tuesday, November 12 (6:30-8:00 pm) 

Donna M. Beegle was born into migrant-labor poverty where people learned by watching and talking, not by reading. Most students living in the crisis of poverty are word of mouth learners who need purposeful, experiential learning opportunities. In this engaging session, Dr. Beegle will share Kolb’s learning style inventory and provide teaching and learning practices that increase success for students living in the crisis of poverty. She will also illuminate how educators can overcoming the strong messages that teach students in poverty that school is not for them. Dr. Beegle will share five strategies for rebuilding confidence, hope, and trust.

• Session 4: Leadership for Change: Building a Community-Wide, Poverty-Informed Approach - Saturday, February 8 (1:30-3:00 pm)

All educators are leaders. Leaders set the tone for prioritizing what we do in our classrooms and schools to remove poverty barriers. This session provides skills and knowledge for creating equity, inclusion, and responsiveness to students and families living in the crisis of poverty. Dr. Beegle will share case studies of schools and communities who have implemented her evidence-based best practices and discovered clear paths to improving education outcomes. Dr. Beegle will work with educators and staff to develop Blueprints for Change, a comprehensive action plan with measurable, doable goals for improving outcomes for children and families. The main goal of these segments is to start to create a customized action plan for increasing education success for all students.