The Cost of Poverty Experience: K-12 Edition
A high-impact experience to deepen your understanding of the effects of poverty has on children and their families.
Today more than ever, education remains the key to escaping poverty, while poverty remains the biggest obstacle to education.
The Cost of Poverty Experience: K-12 Edition is a 2.5 hour experience designed to provide educators and administrative staff within school districts valuable insights into the realities of low-income students and the challenges they face within our communities. This experience can be integrated into professional development days, serving as a catalyst to initiate discussions on how school districts can effectively collaborate with families to meet the diverse needs of children within the community
Participating in this experience equips staff members with a deeper understanding of the complexities faced by students and families living in poverty. This immersive simulation will also help develop new ideas for staff members to implement in their classrooms to help close the achievement gap between students who are living in poverty and those who are not.
COPE is a tool that will help your educators:
Deepen their understanding of the realities of poverty in America.
Improve practices and approaches to better address the challenges low income children and their families face.
Build relationships between parents and staff to help improve the child’s learning outcomes.
“I appreciate the opportunity to have gone through the COPE experience. WOW! I thought I understood the challenges that many face, but I wasn’t even close to understanding. The experience has really helped me to convey to staff, in Kettering, the difficulties that face many families. The perception, many times, is that people are just lazy and want a free ride. I have a much clearer understanding and share it every chance I get.”
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The Cost of Poverty Experience has been adapted to reflect the experience of poverty in various contexts. Please click on one of the sectors below that best describes the organization that you are affiliated with to find out how COPE can help you have greater impact.