The FDIC Money Smart for Young People team will be hosting a Back to School Webinar on September 8, 2022 at 1:00 PM EST. The webinar will cover The Money Smart for Young People curriculum, The How Money Smart Are You? game and provide information about the upcoming Reality Fair Toolkit.
Registration and information is located here.
MoneyWi$er workshops are designed to help K-12 teachers acquire the knowledge and skills needed for classroom teaching and personal life. Classroom activities and lessons align with the Colorado Academic Standards in personal financial literacy. Multiple workshops (all the same) will be offered for both first-time teachers and returning teachers who attended any previous years' workshops.
Economic Literacy Colorado is offering three virtual workshops, each participate will receive a $125 attendance stipend. Choose from Tuesday, June 7th, Saturday, June 11th, and Wednesday, June 15th.
These MoneyWi$er workshops are designed to help K-12 teachers acquire the knowledge and skills needed for classroom teaching and personal life. Classroom activities and lessons align with the Colorado Academic Standards in personal financial literacy. Multiple workshops (all the same) will be offered for both first-time teachers and returning teachers who attended any previous years' workshops.
MoneyWi$er 101 - First-Time Teachers will learn the new standards and acquire lessons (including a new FFFL flash drive) and activities for students in your grade level. MoneyWi$er 201 - Returning Teachers will participate in a separate track (different from last year) taking personal finance to the next level. Additional details below:
Grades: Teachers of All Grade Levels+
Fee: $25*
Time: 8:00am-4:00pm
Continuing Education: 7.5 hour continuing education letter avaiable
Includes: Lesson plans
Attendance Stipends: Each Colorado teacher participant will be mailed a $125 stipend after full-day participation has been verified. This amount covers your $25 registration fee and an additional $100
Registration HERE.
Financial Literacy Month is a nationwide, collaborative endeavor marked by a variety of activities and events across the country and throughout the month. In most years, it’s when our community celebrates achievements in improving the financial literacy of all Americans – especially our nation’s youth. How did it start? Financial Literacy Month was started as Youth Financial Literacy Day by the National Endowment for Financial Education. NEFE brought it to Jump$tart to promote among its 100+ Partners as Youth Financial Literacy Month and later, simply as Financial Literacy Month. Today, organizations across the country conduct events and initiatives throughout the month of April. #FinancialLiteracyMonth
Jump$tart Partners and Friends,
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying a fun – and financially responsible – Black Friday! And now that Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday are in our sights, it must mean that Giving Tuesday is just around the corner.
Our 2021 Giving Tuesday Campaign helps to ensure that Jump$tart can continue its important work to move financial literacy forward, especially among kids and young adults. And we hope we can count on your help!
Jump$tart promotes the importance of financial literacy during Financial Literacy Month in April and in our year-round media, social media, and communications efforts. Our key initiatives include advocating for effective financial education in our nation’s schools through our #CheckYourSchool campaign and financial inclusion initiative; operating a Clearinghouse of financial education resources; co-publishing the National Standards for Personal Financial Education; and supporting the professional development of classroom educators through Jump$tart Financial Foundations for Educators and our annual National Educator Conference.
Your gift will help Jump$tart move financial literacy forward – because together, we’re stronger.
This year, we have designed a marquee on on our website to display names of donors who participate in our Giving Tuesday campaign. You can donate any amount in honor of any individual, organization, class, school, etc. Just make sure to write in the name on the form that you would like listed! This marquee will be live on the Jump$tart website.
Choose your way to give:
Give online at jumpstart.org/giving-tuesday
Text jsgive (all lower case) to 51055. You will receive confirmation that a donation was sent to Jump$tart.
Mail a check to the Jump$tart Coalition, 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 640, Washington, DC 20036
In collaboration with the Council for Economic Education (CEE), Jump$tart is pleased to announce the release of the newly revised National Standards for Personal Financial Education.
The new Standards represent Jump$tart’s and CEE’s shared vision of a single, unified set of standards that will guide educators, curriculum writers, policymakers, and other financial education stakeholders across the country to promote effective, comprehensive financial education for K-12 students.
The new Standards reflect the evolution of financial services, current approaches to financial education, and a more intentional inclusiveness of all users.
Click here to download a free copy of the full publication as a .pdf file.
Jump$tart and CEE thank the Steering Committee, Writing Team, educator and industry-expert reviewers, and the Jackson Charitable Foundation.
Click here for the full announcement.
Dr. Vickie Bajtelsmit, who led the Standards Writing Team, discussed development of the new Standards at the Council for Economic Education’s 60th Anniversary Financial Literacy and Economic Education Conference and then again at the Jump$tart National Educator Conference in Washington, DC. Click here for a .pdf version of her presentation.
While Jump$tart no longer distributes the National Standards as a printed book, organizations in printing their own supply may request a printshop-ready file by contacting our headquarters office.
Dear Jump$tart Partners and Friends,
I am reaching out to you today because I feel very strongly that the findings of the attached research –Jump$tart’s Financial Foundations for Educators Student Impact Study – are worthy of your time and consideration.
This study – conducted by The Financial Literacy Group and made possible through the generous sponsorship of Fidelity Investments, the National Endowment for Financial Education, and the Wells Fargo Foundation – found that the J$FFE professional development program had a substantial impact on the personal finance knowledge gains of students taught by teachers who had completed the J$FFE program. Specifically, high school students taught by trained teachers achieved personal finance knowledge gains that were three times greater than the knowledge gains of students taught by the same teachers before they completed the J$FFE program.
Moreover, students from communities that have been historically financially underserved realized an even greater benefit from the training their teachers received, with a fourfold increase in their financial knowledge gains following their teachers’ participation in the J$FFE program.
These findings reaffirm the value of content-based professional development for educators. They also provide valuable signposts that indicate where the financial education community can have the biggest impact.
In addition to being insightful, the research is also timely. The surge in national resolve to narrow racial economic disparities has caused us all to recognize that some jobs need doing first. This research highlights the multiplier effect of well-trained teachers – especially for communities of color.
While this is a single study with a relatively modest sample size, the results are strongly suggestive. We think this report establishes a new pathway for research on how to make financial education more effective. And of course, the results further validate JumpStart’s ongoing commitment to supporting educators with high-quality training, standards-based curriculum resources and advocacy for sufficient instructional hours to properly equip students to face their financial futures.
I encourage you take the time to review the study. If you are as impressed as I was, please share this research with your own community. Spreading the word will help to build recognition and support for educational changes that can have a significant positive impact on future generations.
Mike Staten
Associate Dean for Career and Academic Services, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona
Chairman, Jump$tart Coalition National Board of Directors
The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy is hosting the National Jump$tart Educator Conference from Nov. 6 -8 at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C.
To bring the exceptional education provided at the conference home to Colorado, CO Jump$tart will sponsor up to four educators to attend this in-person event.
The conference allows you to meet other financial providers from around the country; learn about free resources and tools to bring back to your schools; and enjoy the chance to finally meet again face-to-face. This will be a fun, educational, and inspiring opportunity to help you get back into the classroom with a renewed sense of commitment to teaching personal finance to your students!
If you are interested in applying for the scholarship which will cover almost all conference expenses (just incidentals left for you) please complete the application available here. K12 teachers teaching PFL are eligible.
The following expenses will be covered by either Jump$tart National or CO Jump$tart.
- Round-trip airfare from Denver (or the closest major airport to you) to Washington, D.C. (4 educators covered by CO Jump$tart. Receipt needed for reimbursement)
- Full conference registration fees (2 educators covered by Jump$tart national and 2 educators covered by CO Jump$tart)
- Two hotel nights (2 educators covered by Jump$tart national and 2 educators covered by CO Jump$tart)
- Six conference meals (2 educators covered by Jump$tart national and 2 educators covered by CO Jump$tart)
- Local transportation in Washington, D.C. (receipt needed for reimbursement)
Please complete the interest form by August 13, 2021. If you have additional questions contact Stephanie Murphy, smurphy@jacolorado.org.
In this 4 week long online course, you will take control of your financial health by reviewing and analyzing debt, credit, income, expenses, and savings. At the end of this course, you will create a personal budget that will ensure monetary needs and goals, fiscal self-confidence, and peace of mind so that you can be a happy teacher.
Who qualifies? You must:
Be taking the Budget course for the first time
Have a teaching license in the state of Colorado
Can not work for the Colorado Department of Education
Must be a US Citizen
1) Sign up and pay for the course on this CDE Sponsored Budget page.
2) When you complete the course, you will receive a certificate of completion and paperwork to submit to the Colorado Department of Education.
3) CDE will mail you a check for $210!
You will receive a certificate of completion when you complete the course that you can use towards 45 hours of license renewal in Colorado.
If you would like to purchase a transcript from Adams State University, they charge an additional $165. The adjunct professor will send you that information when you complete the class.