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Background
The Finance in the Classroom website and related resources are in large part the result of a partnership between the Utah State Office of Education and the Utah Education Network. USOE and UEN jointly submitted and subsequently received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Public Media Innovation Fund. The grant was designed to explore the hypothesis that K12 teachers would be able to effectively incorporate financial literacy concepts into their instruction if they have the support of comprehensive online resources and community awareness regarding the value of this instruction.
Subsequent partnerships and related projects came together to further enable these goals, objectives and resources.
Financial Literacy for Utah Teachers Grant
Support
Funding for this project was provided in part by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Public Media Innovation Fund.
Purpose
To help prepare Utah students to enter adulthood with the capacity for personal financial success, the Utah State Office of Education and the Utah Education Network (UEN) partnered to develop a wide range of media resources for K-12 financial and economic literacy education. The resources include a new website for teachers, students, and parents; a special week of financial literacy television programming; and online, professional development opportunities for Utah teachers, all designed to support the communication of sound financial principles.
Threefold Parts of the Project
Online Resources: Finance in the Classroom.org
This comprehensive financial literacy and economic education website is designed to help teachers, students, and parents gain extensive access to original lesson plans, student interactives, digital videos, and other resources—all age-appropriate and correlated to the State’s curriculum.
Financial Fitness Broadcast Week: October 18-23, 2009
To raise awareness of the importance of financial literacy education in our communities, UEN-TV (Channel 9) devoted a week to afterschool and primetime programming on critical financial and economic topics. Shows included the series MoneyTrack, BizKid$, The Economics Collection (for K-3), and much more.
Professional Development for Utah Teachers—October 14, 21, 28, 2009
A series of three, professional development webinars featuring local and national experts were scheduled for October 2009. Using Wimba Classroom, teachers had the opportunity to learn more about the new Finance in the Classroom website, outstanding financial literacy websites and classroom resources, and the Utah Financial Literacy Passport program for grades K-12.
Partners
Contacts for this Project
- Julie Felshaw, Utah State Office of Education
- Trisha Wrigley, Utah State Office of Education
- Ann House, Utah State University Extension Services
- Laura Hunter, Utah Education Network
- Douglas Jones, Utah Education Network
