Strategies for low SES
Small group report by Lakeiah Cheatham
Assistant Principal, Newman Smith High School
- Early exposure (first grade, can do attitude)
- Summer math and science camps
- Remediation when needed
- Family Education
- Mentors
- Consistency
- Homework help
- Attendance (good)
- Dispelling myth (i.e., becoming professional athletes,
- Incentives to progress
- Role models as examples of success – knowing/doing gap
