Jensen, Eric. Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can

Do about It. Alexandria: ASCD, 2009.

CHAPTER 3 QUOTES

p. 46 – The reasons things stay the same is because we’ve been the same. For things to change, we must change!

p. 47 – Relatively recently, we have learned that we can intentionally change the brain’s structure and organization.

p. 54 – Kids raised in poverty need more than just content; they need capacity.

p.56 – Every successful school intervention for low-SES kids features some variation on the theme of rebuilding the operating system and honing the fewest processes that matter most to the learning process. Such interventions enrich students.

p.63 – Kids can change and we can make it happen.

p. 63 – When you take care of your staff members, they can take care of the students.

p. 64 – …the human brain is designed to change from experiences and that if we design enough high-quality experiences, over time we will get positive change.

p.65 – The first prerequisite for change is your belief in it – and your willingness to change yourself first .

p. 65 – Students’ brains don’t change from more of the same.