Convention

OEA members who show their membership cards attend Convention free. Registration for non-OEA members and guest is only $25.

7:30 a.m.
Registration/Exhibits

8:45 a.m.
Opening Session

Becky Felts
OEA Vice President
Roy Bishop
OEA President

9:45 a.m.
Break

10:00 a.m.
A Framework for
Understanding Poverty
Dr. Ruby Payne

Resources and Case Studies
Registers of Language
Story Structure Cognition
                                               
11:30 a.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:00 p.m.
Family Structure
Hidden Rules Among the Classes

2 p.m.
Break

2:15 p.m.
Discipline Interventions
Building Relationships

3:15 p.m.
Closure and Evaluation

3:45 p.m.
Door Prize Drawing
(Must be present to win)

Are more and more of your students eligible for free or reduced lunch?

The Oklahoma Education Association invites you to include the following workshop in your district's 2008-09 professional development plan:

Ruby Payne, Ph.D.
Author, A Framework For Understanding Poverty

Dr. Payne is a nationally known leader in the area of understanding the impact of poverty on the learning environment.

Educator

• Professional educator since 1972, from high school teacher, principal, central office administrator, to educational consultant
• Provides training in how to work effectively with individuals from poverty
• Has trained tens of thousands of professionals yearly since 1996
• Has certified more than 4,500 Framework trainers
• Mission: to positively impact the education and lives of individuals in poverty throughout the world
• Ph.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Loyola, IL; M.S. English Literature, Western
  Michigan University; MI, B.A. Goshen College, IN
  

Speaker

• Expert on poverty and mindsets of economic classes
• Accessible style, using humor and stories
• Message relevant to business leaders, educators, community and social service workers
• Helps find creative and practical solutions to the challenges of working across socioeconomic lines
• Speaks more than 150 days a year, with past engagements including PBS, Harvard’s Summer Institute for Principals, SCERT (Delhi, India), Tasmania Teacher Training, National Conference of State Legislatures, Annual Conference of Southwest Foundations, Walt Disney World Educator Symposium, Colorado Governor’s Conference, NY Superintendents Association, Palm Beach Literacy Council, Chief Officers of State School Departments
  

Author

• Hidden Rules of Class at Work
  • Written for the workplace
  • Helps understand motivation, and mindset of entry-level employees
  • Helps assess one’s own ability to get promoted
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty – seminal work, 1995
  • Has sold more than 1,000,000 copies
  • For educators and other professionals
  • Teaches the hidden rules of economic class
  • Teaches specific strategies for overcoming poverty’s obstacles
• Also wrote and co-authored a dozen books surrounding issues of poverty in areas of education, social services, the workplace, communities, churches, and leadership

Business owner

• Founder and CEO of aha! Process, Inc. (formerly RFT Publishing) in 1995
• Employs 25 full- or part-time staff
• Has cadre of 50 consultant presenters
• Has published more than 45 books and video products, offering a dozen different seminars

aha! Process, Inc.
PO Box 727
421 Jones Road
Highlands, TX 77562-0727
(800) 424-9484  fax (281) 426-5600  www.ahaprocess.com

October 15, 2009 - Tulsa
2010 - Tulsa

Mabee Center Directions

Becky Felts, Co chair
OEA Vice President
Patricia Mott, Co chair
Tulsa CTA
Joyce Allen
Guthrie ACT
Charles Brady
Elmore City-Pernell EA
Kareen Brooks
Byng EA
Junene Dretzke
Idabel EA
Linda Fischer
Western Heights EA
Stephany Gooden
Moore ACT
Terri Keck
Marlow ACT
Jen Lakely-Oswald
Beaver EA
Sylvia Mahaffey
Putnam City ACT
Kim Morris
Mannford EA
Sandra Pendergraft
Retired
Janet Stowers
Muskogee EA
Erika Tornatore
Student OEA, ORU
Patti Ferguson
Board Liaison, Tulsa Metro B
Margaret Bujold
OEA Staff Liaison