Motivating and Challenging At-Risk Youth: It’s Possible!
Format
Individual Presentation
Location
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Strand #1
Academic Achievement & School Leadership
Relevance
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Brief Program Description
Featured Speaker session.
Summary
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Evidence
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Biographical Sketch
Abbigail J. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Middle Level Education, Winthrop University, Gastonia, NC
I have been an educator for 20 years, ten of which I spent teaching young adolescents from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. I have been at Winthrop University for 10 years where I teach and work with teacher education candidates. I have also consulted in various schools systems across the United States in areas such as Chicago, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina where I have shared my expertise on motivation and rigor and my own story of growing up in poverty and being at-risk.
Keyword Descriptors
At-risk students, Student motivation, Student learning, Teacher education
Presentation Year
2016
Start Date
3-7-2016 1:15 PM
End Date
3-7-2016 2:30 PM
Recommended Citation
Armstrong, Abbigail J., "Motivating and Challenging At-Risk Youth: It’s Possible!" (2016). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 24.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2016/2016/24
Motivating and Challenging At-Risk Youth: It’s Possible!
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Featured Speaker session.
