Payne, R. K. (2012). From understanding poverty to developing human capacity: Ruby Payne's articles on transforming individuals, families, schools, churches, and communities. Highlands, TX: aha! Process Inc.

Nine powerful practices - nine strategies help raise the achievements of students living in poverty -- The ten dynamics of poverty - by understanding the barriers created by poverty, schools can help over come them -- Advance: school improvement - a process to use at the district/campus level -- Effectively communicating standards to parent - standards must be in lay terms and demonstrated to parents in order for them to understand how their children are doing -- Six basic components of classroom discipline and management -- Toward a cognitive model for better understanding socioeconomic class -- Where do we go from here? how do communities develop intellectual capital and sustainability? -- Moving from middle class to situational poverty - from stability to instability: what you can do to help your students and parents during the present economic downturn -- Impacting two generations at once: refocusing parent training to develop human capacity and community sustainability -- Health and poverty through the lens of economic class: an invitation to healthcare providers to create new models for better serving people in poverty -- What information does a framework for understanding poverty have that cannot be obtained easily from other sources? why do critics love to hate it and practitioners love to use it? -- What can the faith community do to address poverty? it can use a human capacity model that results in the development of resources