Are you ready to challenge your perspectives and enrich your curriculum with meaningful discussions of economic inequality? Join our summer book club to read Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America and connect with like-minded educators.
Book Club includes three self-paced lessons and two optional Zoom events, including a discussion. Econiful members who complete the book club will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Note: If our summer dates don't work for your schedule, join us in the fall when this program will repeat.
SCHEDULE
June 12 - July 28
Zoom Meetings
Optional, but encouraged!
- Kick-off Meeting | June 12 1:00 pm PT (30 minutes)
- Book Discussion | Date TBD (1 hour)
Three Self-Paced Nearpod Modules
Each should take 30 minutes or less to complete
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CERTIFICATE OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Everyone who completes all three Nearpod Modules will receive a certificate for 8 hours of PD.
THE BOOK
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.
Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.
Publication: March 2023
Length: 304 Pages