ELEMENTARY FINANCIAL LITERACY:

My Classroom economy

• This program is designed to over-lay classroom ciriculum
• Lets educators teach financial responsibility through experimental learning
• Connected by many common core standards and customized by grade level
• This program reinforces connection between work ethic and money
• Students are paid in stimulation for completing classroom jobs

the secret millionaires club (Animated series)

• Warren Buffet is featured as a mentor to entrepreneurial kids 
• Kids go on adventures and must solve financial problems
• Program teaches basics of good financial decision making
• Also teaches the basics of starting a business

Money as you learn

• Developed by US presidents advisory council on Financial Capability
• Provides teachers w texts, lessons, and tasks 
• Texts, lessons/tasks help connect common core to real life applications 

Parenting partnership

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• educators know the important role that parents play in academic success
• Parents are the important allies for the education of their students
• Raise awareness of the common core by identifying the cause
• Knowing the issues in the community allows to message the targets
• CCSS are the most relevant to the world

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• CCRS tracks if students are progressing
• implications of the classroom result in 70% of active teachers w high expectations 
• improving social reasoning and critical thinking move in a positive direction
• The govt does not have access to student data in state databases

Rethinking class ranking

• Guskey believes that schools rank students to select talent
• class rank doesn't help students achieve more or reach high levels of proficiency
• class rank results in an intense competition among high achieving students
• class ranking system emphasizes comparison to peers rather than mastery of  skills