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Kathleen Budge

Education Avenger

Kathleen Budge brings a blend of 26 years of practical experience as a teacher and administrator combined with more than a decade of work dedicated to bridging the gap between the university and the teaching profession. She is professor emerita at Boise State University, where her research focuses on poverty, rural education, school improvement, and leadership development. She is co-author (with William Parrett) of Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools, 2nd Edition, the video series Disrupting Poverty in Elementary and Secondary Classrooms, and Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices, which was honored as an ASCD Member book and provided to over 50,000 educational leaders and classroom teachers worldwide as a part of its official release in January of 2018. Within six months of its release, it was recognized as a best seller by ASCD.

Kathleen has conducted numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences and served as guest speaker for webinars, podcasts, and symposiums related to the topic of poverty and the “whole child.” Her consultancies include state departments, boards of education, education associations, state and regional service providers; as well as schools in 22 states and 4 nations. She earned her doctorate from the University of Washington in 2005. She continues to maintain that her most important and significant work has been teaching first graders to read.

Also available to co-present with her co-author William Parrett.

Categories: Educator, Educator - AEIs Most Popular Educators, Educator - Poverty, Educator - SEL Social Emotional Learning, Educator - Virtual Learning

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Equity in Distance Learning

Disrupting Poverty: What Teachers Can Do

Some teachers are more successful with students who live in poverty than others, but what is the difference? Studies show it goes well beyond the curricula selected, teaching strategies employed or quality of the instruction. While all of these factors are important, they are insufficient for explaining the difference. Key to succeeding with students who live in poverty is the way in which teachers relate to them and engage them in the learning process. In this session, participants will learn how to develop classroom cultures in which both they and their students thrive.

Disrupting Poverty: What Schools Can Do

What does it take to disrupt poverty's adverse influence on student learning? It requires far more than individual teachers' diligent and often heroic efforts. Even when successful, these endeavors are rarely replicated or sustained without far broader and deeper collective action.Based on the award-winning ASCD book, Turning High Poverty Schools into High Performing Schools, co-author Kathleen Budge, will provide participants with a protocol for collaborative action. Practical strategies and concrete examples of how those strategies are implemented in high performing, high poverty schools, are intended to "jumpstart" participants' thinking about what it often takes to successfully engage students who live in poverty in the learning process and create a learning environment where all students succeed.

Books

Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools

Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools

Schools across the United States and Canada are disrupting the adverse effects of poverty and supporting students in ways that enable them to succeed in school and in life. In this second edition, Parrett and Budge show you how your school can achieve similar results. Expanding on their original framework's still-critical concepts of actions and school culture, they incorporate new insights for addressing equity, trauma, and social-emotional learning.

You can purchase this book here

Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices

Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M. Budge and William H. Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the debilitating effects of poverty on their students. They share the powerful voices of teachers—many of whom grew up in poverty—to amplify the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of successful high-poverty schools: (1) caring relationships and advocacy, (2) high expectations and support, (3) commitment to equity, (4) professional accountability for learning, and (5) the courage and will to act.

You can purchase this book here

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