In this stimulating and intensive one-day workshop at the University of Georgia, teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, family advocates, teacher educators, community-based educators, and anyone else working with youth and families will:

• Learn about the five principles for change to understand better and meet the needs of students from economically challenging environments
• Develop research-based teaching and leading practices and policies affirming social class diversity
• Take away powerful classroom ideas for incorporating typically ignored social class-related content across the grade levels
• Get ideas for establishing positive and genuine relationships with students and families from economically challenging environments

Classroom Project Facilitator: Stephanie Jones

Jones is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia in the Mary Frances Early College of Education. Her research focuses on social class and poverty with an emphasis on creating justice-oriented and classsensitive curriculum, teaching, classrooms, and schools. She is co-director of the Red Clay Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, and is author or co-author of more than 50 publications including books, articles, book chapters, and newspaper editorials. Her most recent co-authored book is Writing and Teaching to Change the World: Connecting With Our Most Vulnerable Students, which she wrote with practicing K-12 teachers in Georgia.