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 experiential training to give faculty and staff of school districts a glimpse into the lives of low-income students and the struggles they face in the school system.
This training will broaden your staff to the struggles faced by students and their families who live in poverty. The 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.”
An Experience For Everyone.
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.