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Council on Economic Education Releases 2020 Survey of the State
CEE’s biennial Survey of the States is a comprehensive look into the state of K-12 economic and financial education throughout the country; it serves as an important benchmark for progress in these areas, revealing both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go.You can view the full report here.
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New Documentary: The Most Important Class You Never Had
Next Gen Personal Finance recently released a documentary entitled, The Most Important Class You Never Had. The documentary showcases eight personal finance teachers and their students to demonstrate the importance of personal finance education. You can view the documentary and discussion guide here.
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Iowa Student Loan Rolls Out New Resource for Parents
The majority of career and college planning information is targeted toward students, but focus groups and surveys told us that parents want to play a pivotal role in helping their children plan for life after high school — and the research that Iowa Student Loan conducted clearly shows that students whose parents are involved in planning their future are much more successful in high school and college.
The Dilemma
How do we deliver timely and relevant information to parents and guardians when their students need it the most?
The Solution
Introducing SP 3 — Student Planning Pointers for Parents, a new FREE service from Iowa Student Loan meant to empower the parents and guardians of students between 8th and 12th grades to engage them in postsecondary planning with their students. Launched in early January, important information has already been delivered to over 700 participants with new participants registering daily.
How It Works
Parents and guardians register at www.sp3.org and enroll their eighth through 12th grade students.
Twice-monthly emails containing timely and grade-level specific information will be sent to those who
register. The emails will provide tips, tools and resources for parents and guardians to have meaningful
discussions with their students about their postsecondary options.
The content is relevant to the month in which it is sent and includes a number of topics, such as:
- How GPAs work and the importance of getting good grades and forming strong study habits in high
school
- Taking interest assessments, career exploration and setting career goals
- Core course requirements and earning college credit in high school
- Options available after high school — apprenticeships, certificate and degree programs, military, etc.
- The importance of working and saving for college, budgeting time and money
- ACT and SAT prep, college and scholarship applications
- Completing the FAFSA, understanding the cost of college and the financial aid process
- Preparing for college or career after high school
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Junior Achievement BizTown Summer Camp
JA BizTown Summer Camp is an indoor, academic camp geared towards students entering grades 4-7. This camp is designed to educate and enhance the camper's financial literacy learning while infusing entrepreneurship, work and career readiness, team work, marketing, philanthropy and public speaking.
Details
When: June 8-11, June 22-25 OR July 6-9
Where: JA BizTown Capstone Facility | 6100 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50312
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Register: https://campscui.active.com/orgs/JuniorAchievementofCentralIowaInc?orglink=camps-registration#/selectSessions/2792016
Questions: Contact Shannon Gerard at shannon@jacentraliowa.org
Foolproof
FoolProof gives middle school and high school students a unique and ethically-driven financial literacy and consumer life skills curriculum. We teach students the power of healthy skepticism and how to identify and neutralize misinformation. Our curriculum is module based, is all online and digital. All modules have self grading pre and post test. FoolProof is free of charge. You can view the webpage here and more information here.
Finance in the Classroom
This website is primarily focused on Utah financial literacy standards, but includes lots of resources that could support Iowa standards as well. Check it out here.
EVERFI Financial Literacy Resources
We are excited to share the updates to the new high school EVERFI - Financial Literacy program:
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All 7 online modules have released
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Spanish language option is available
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All modules align to the upcoming state financial education requirement
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The program is available at no cost, thanks to our sponsors!
Don’t teach high school? We also have elementary and middle school financial education resources, too! To learn more and get access to EVERFI’s programs, contact Rachel Henry at rhenry@everfi.com or sign up here.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Lesson Plans
The CFPB has hundreds of lessons for elementary, middle and high school students. Examples include:
You can search all lesson plans here.
Stukent Financial Literacy Game
If you are looking for a free financial literacy game for your students, check out stukent. This free financial literacy game is available through May 2020 with the passcode: visionvip. As an instructor, you can preview this first. As stated earlier, this is free only through May 2020. You can check out a news story about Stukent here.
New Game from Next Gen Personal Finance
NGPF just launched a new game called Money Magic. This is a game that would pair nicely with a unit on budgeting. It explores concepts such as allocating scarce resources and making choices between needs and wants. Play the game here.
Next Gen Personal Finance Fin Camp in Des Moines
Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) will be hosting a (now) virtual Fin Camp in Des Moines on April 1st. You can register here.
College Credit Financial Literacy Course Training at UNI
A new personal finance course for high school students will be available this fall from the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). This introductory financial literacy course was created by Iowa’s only AACSB accredited business college with a Certified Financial Planning program. Financial Skills for Smart Living is a college-level course designed for 11th and 12th grade students. This course offers a full curriculum with presentation materials, lesson plans, videos, and activities that covers all of Iowa’s financial literacy standards plus the financial literacy topics listed in the Senate Bill 2475. This video will introduce your students to the course.
High school students have the option to earn three UNI college credits after paying $100 and passing the final exam. Students who qualify for free-and-reduced lunch may take the exam at no cost. Teachers will be required to attend training on June 22 - 23, 2020 to teach the course for college credit. A Master’s degree is not required to teach the course for college credit if the teacher attends summer training. The cost for training is $100 with no annual fee or additional charge to use the curriculum. One graduate credit will be offered at a cost of $95.
This is a great opportunity for students, teachers, and school districts to offer a personal finance course for UNI college credit at a minimal cost. Please contact Jennifer Anderson if you have any questions or would like to teach the course for the next school year.
Upcoming Small Change Workshops
Where personal and professional meet... Improve your personal financial management knowledge, skills and confidence with “small changes” AND prepare yourself as a professional to address financial literacy in the classroom! There are several upcoming workshops to attend. Check out the list here.
Stefanie Rosenberg Wager
Social Studies Consultant
21st Century Skills- Civic and Financial Literacy
World Languages
Iowa Department of Education
Grimes State Office Building
400 E. 14th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-725-7842
Cell: 515-419-2876
Fax: 515-242-5988
Email: stefanie.wager@iowa.gov
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Financial Literacy website, newsletter, Pinterest
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