Children who have adequate health care, secure housing, plenty of food in the fridge, and hundreds of books at home will always have a titanic advantage over children who endure shoddy health care or no health care, homelessness, food insecurity, and have only a
handful of books on their shelves. How do you reach these children in your classroom? How do we begin to understand what it means to go hungry, or come to school late, hungry, and tired? This class will provide you with a new perspective and help you to start to understand the children in your class and how to reach them and their parents. As you begin to understand the circumstances that your students live in, we can then start to understand how to help families and students learn to break the cycle of poverty.
