In this 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 better understand and meet the needs of working-class and poor students in schools and community organizations 
• Develop research-based teaching and leading practices and policies affirming for 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 working-class and poor families.

Classroom Project Facilitator:

Stephanie Jones is a professor of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia who is an award-winning researcher, teacher educator, and former public school teacher. 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.