1. Two Kinds of Rules from Ruby Payne
Hidden
Those rules that are unspoken that we assume students know.
Spoken
Those rules that we put out there explicitly whether general or specific.

2. Framework for Understanding Poverty Study of 30 years
Ruby Payne’s Work
Framework for Understanding Poverty
Study of 30 years
Focus on patterns within socioeconomic levels, in particular generational poverty, and how that impacts student achievement.
Module 5
The objective for Module 5 is to understand and give examples of the hidden rules of the three economic classes.

3. Hidden Rules of Economic Class
POVERTY
MIDDLE CLASS
WEALTH
MONEY
To be used, spent.
To be managed.
To be conserved, invested.
PERSONALITY
Is for entertainment.
Sense of humor is highly valued.
Is for acquisition and stability. Achievement is highly valued.
Is for connections.
Financial, political, social connections are highly valued.
SOCIAL
EMPHASIS
Social inclusion of the people they like.
Emphasis is on self-governance and self-sufficiency.
Emphasis is on social exclusion.
FOOD
Key question: Did you have enough? Quantity important.
Key question: Did you like it?
Quality important.
Key question: Was it presented well? Presentation important.
EDUCATION
Valued and revered as abstract but not as reality.
Education is about facts.
Crucial for climbing success ladder and making money.
Necessary tradition for making and maintaining connections.
LANGUAGE
Casual register. Language is about survival.
Formal register. Language is about negotiation.
Formal register.
Language is about connection.
FAMILY STRUCTURE
Tends to be matriarchal.
Tends to be patriarchal.
Depends on who has/controls money.
WORLD VIEW
Sees world in terms of local setting.
Sees world in terms of national setting.
Sees world in terms of an international view.
LOVE
Love and acceptance conditional, based on whether individual is liked.
Love and acceptance conditional, based largely on achievement.
Love and acceptance conditional, related to social standing and connections.
DRIVING FORCES
Survival, relationships, entertainment.
Work and achievement.
Financial, political, social connections.
Hidden Rules of Economic Class
These are the hidden rules of economic class in poverty, middle class, and wealth.

4. Hidden Rules about Destiny
GENERATIONAL POVERTY
Believes in fate
Cannot do much to mitigate chance
MIDDLE CLASS
Believes in choice
Can change future with good choices now
WEALTH
Noblesse oblige
Destiny
One more hidden rule: destiny.
In wealth, noblesse oblige, you were born to rule, and you need to be responsible about it.
Middle class believes in choice. We think we're not destined: If we make good choices, we can change things. Those in poverty have a strong belief in fate and luck.
If you believe in choice, what's the purpose of discipline? Well, what do you want them to do? You want them to change—to make better choices.
But if you believe you are fated, there's nothing you can do about who are. What's the purpose of discipline? It's punishment and forgiveness. It's not about change.

5. Destiny in Action cycle begins again believes that one is
fated or destined
engage in behavior
Destiny in Action
cycle begins again
plan: not get caught
If you're fated or destined, there's nothing you can do about who you are. But what you can try to do is not get caught. If you get caught, you are going to deny it so you won't get punished. If you get punished, you also get forgiven. Therefore, you have the right to do it again.
if do, deny it
punished then
forgiven

6. What can you do in the classroom?
HIDDEN RULES 1. Direct-teach the hidden rules. 2. Teach that there are two sets of rules. 3. Understand the hidden rules that students bring with them.
Hidden Rules
What can you do in the classroom about hidden rules?
* Direct-teach the hidden rules.
* Teach that there are two sets of rules.
* Understand the hidden rules that students bring with them.

7. Application Look back at the general and specific rules you created.
What adjustments might you need to make in response to the information from Ruby Payne about spoken and hidden rules? Do the rules you have created identify the hidden rules you may have?

8. The golden rules of consequences…
Make it match the behavior issue.
Be cautious about over reacting because you are angry.
Or under react because of who the student is.
Be consistent.