Mike  Fladlien: Masterful Financial Literacy Instruction in the Heartland

Mike Fladlien is a teacher at Muscatine High School in Muscatine, Iowa. Mr. Fladlien teaches Business, Business Law, Economics, Computer Applications, and (Business) Logistics there. Mr. Fladlien blogs on Finance and Economics Education: Micro-economics at http://www.mikeroeconomics.blogspot.com/ and at http://teachingapeconomics.blogspot.com/. He has had 8 lessons accepted and published on the EconEdLink web-based resource.

Mike’s Materials at EconEdLink
http://www.econedlink.org/about-us/about-EconEdLink-authors.php?aid=272

Mike’s Blogs

- Mikroecomonics: www.mikeroeconomics.blogspot.com

• AP Economics: Resources for Teaching Advanced Placement Economic: http://teachingapeconomics.blogspot.com/
• Mike’s Profile: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mike-Fladlien-16/Teaching-Experience

Article about Mike in The Muscatine Journal: http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/article_96dbe4d4-299f-11e1-94f4-001871e3ce6c.htm

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Mack Lewis: Creator of the Checkbook Project

Another exciting Talking Fin Lit episode with vital free resources as we interview Mack Lewis, a board certified teacher working in Oregon. Mack describes her development of Class Money: The Checkbook Project, a unique model for using the Micro Society instructional context to model and teach Financial Literacy. It is a free resource, a complete guide for teachers with support materials, available in downloadable format online.

Links for this interview:

• Mack’s link and profile at Teachers Pay Teachers: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/search?keyword=Checkbook+project&subjectarea=0&startsearch=1 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Class-Money-The-Checkbook-Project-class-economy-financial-literacy
• Mack’s professional profile:  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mack-Lewis/Teaching-Experience
• Mack’s own website with Checkbook Project resources: http://macklewis.com/checkbook-project/

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An Interview with Prolific Curriculum Writer for Financial Literacy, Mickey Ebert.

Join us for this stimulating interview with a prolific curriculum writer for early elementary Financial Literacy, Mickey Ebert is an award-winning retired Blue Springs, Arkansas teacher. Mickey has had unique education experiences as a result of her 34 years in education and has studied School Administration as well as Teaching. She has written and published the astoundingly large body of 42 lessons for EconEdLink.

She currently works as an Education Specialist for the National Archives, applying her deep knowledge of Education to its extraordinary collection of resources made available for teachers.

Mickey’s page at EconEdLink:

http://www.econedlink.org/about-us/about-EconEdLink-authors.php?aid=786

Mickey’s page at The National Archives:

http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/education/

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Talking Financial Literacy is produced in collaboration among Dr. Kathleen King and Mark Gura  and The McGraw-Hill Companies.

An Interview with Jennifer Allen, Jump$tart Teacher of the Year

Jennifer Allen was selected as the first State of Kentucky, Jumpstart Financial Literacy – Teacher of the Year. She is a teacher at Madison Southern High School in Berea, Kentucky where she teaches Business and Marketing courses and runs the school bank and school store programs. She has presented to colleagues on using free resources for teaching various aspects of Financial Literacy (see her presentation PowerPoint below). Ms. Allen’s work as a Financial Literacy educator provides an important model, as she teaches both formal classes, and runs school-based activities (the bank and store) that provide important opportunities to apply what’s learned in the courses as well as other content, hands-on. In this interview Jennifer describes how she runs her program, identifies important free resources she’s found for it, and gives important advice on how to run a highly successful Fin Lit program on the high school level.

Links:

• Kentucky Teacher – (Posted November 2011)
  http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/news/2010/11/ky-jumptart-names-financial-literacy-teacher-of-the-year/
• If It’s Free, It’s For Me (PowerPoint) attached
• Junior Achievement http://www.ja.org/
• The Economics of Seinfeld (Yada Yada Yada Econ.com) http://yadayadayadaecon.com/
• National Endowment for Financial Education (Nefe) http://www.nefe.org/

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The Centsables

Mr. Mark DiPippa is the President of The Centsables, a rich, comic book themed, multi-media instructional resource for Financial Literacy Education. The Centsables website is a comprehensive source of instructional materials and bears the tag line, “The Centsables, A NEW BREED OF SUPERHEROES!: Helping kids overcome obstables, soar toward goals, and achieve financial fitness!” This episode gives the history and background of The Centsables and offers insights into what it offers educators and how they may best make use of it.

The Centsables Website: http://centsables.com/

http://centsables.com/lessons/

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Economic Education: Picking up Steam in the Old South

Listeners from around the world will benefit from learning about the model used by Mississippi Council on Economic Education (MCEE)  to take advantage of the many ideas and highly useful resources available through their website and its subsidiary links. This interview with Ms. Swartzfager gives the insider insight that will make the huge array of resources very accessible to the listener.

Ms. Selena Swartzfager is the President of the Mississippi Council on Economic Education. Before assuming the responsibilities of President of the MCEE, Selena was a second career teacher, having earned degrees in business and having spent 15 years in the corporate world before entering the classroom. She was a High School teacher of Business and Personal Finance. Thus, she brings a perfect body of experience to her current work. As this interview reveals, the Mississippi Council of Economic Education offers a broad and well balanced program for teachers and students.

Links to items referenced in this episode:

• Mississippi Council on Economic Education (MCEE) www.mscee.org/programs.html

• YouTube VIDEO “Mississippi Economics Challenge 2010” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oy-pB52ceo

• Mississippi EconChallenge ONLINE!
  AND
  Mississippi Finance Challenge ONLINE
  http://www.mscee.org/challenge.html

• MCEE Links Page www.mscee.org/links.html

• Compound Interest Calculator
  http://www.myarmyonesource.com/data/Calculators/Compound_Interest/CompoundInterest.html

  TalkingFinLit Recommendation: M&M INTERESTING
  http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/M&M6-8.pdf
  From Personal Finance Economics, 6-8: Money in the Middle, © National Council on Economic Education, New York, NY

• Self-Sufficiency Standard (and related materials and resources)
  http://www.mscee.org/programs.html

• Self Sufficiency Calculator
  http://www.mepconline.com/self-sufficiency-standard/your-standard.php

• (National) Council on Economics Education
  http://www.councilforeconed.org/

• Missouri Council on Economics Education & Personal Finance Challenge
  http://cas.umkc.edu/mcee/studentprograms.html

• International Economic Summit
  http://www.econsummit.org/

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Looking Back and Ahead-

The Future is…

About Financial Literacy Education!

Resources Related to this Episode

ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• USF Faculty Presentation on Podcasting- Tampa, FL March 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• Dr. King’s Induction into Hall of Fame for International Adult and Continuing Education- Dr. King, Toronto, Canada, April 6-8, 2011
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CASAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• International Technology Conference- Portugal – July 2011- Dr. King (not yet confirmed)
• Distance Learning Conference – Madison WI – Aug 2-4, 2011 Dr. King (not yet confirmed)
• Educause Conference -Dr. King (not yet confirmed)

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How well does

Talking Fin Lit Podcast

measure up?

Mark shares an exciting report from the floor of the conference from hundreds of  teachers, PDers, administrators and tech coordinators!

Financial literacy education is “in demand” more than ever as more scools and teachers have realized the extreme need.

The result? Teachers, staff developers and tech coordinators are scrambling to find quality resources.

At ISTE NECC 2010 the great news is they discovered (like you have!!) that Talking Fin Lit Podcast and website provides a storehouse of resources. But that is not all! Our podcast discusses the  value and application of those resources for  teaching and learning in specific content areas.

Join us to hear what was being discussed, questions posed and the resulting direction it provides for the series as we get ready for Year 3 of Talking Fin Lit!

Resources Related to this Episode

• Complete ISTE presentation in PDF Format

• ISTE Presentation Description

• More ISTE Teacher comments and conversations with Mark (Coming soon)

ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• USF Faculty Presentation on Educational Research- Tampa, FL Feb 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• USF Faculty Presentation on Podcasting- Tampa, FL March 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• Dr. King’s Induction into Hall of Fame for International Adult and Continuing Education- Dr. King, Toronto, Canada, April 6-8, 2011
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CASAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• International Technology Conference- Portugal – July 2011- Dr. King (not yet confirmed)

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[Photo By Michael Patrick, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel]

Resources Related to this Episode

• Article in USA Today:
  • When students at Carter High School in Strawberry Plains, Tenn., forget their lunch money, they don’t have to worry about going hungry.Instead, they wander over to one of the five tellers who work at the student-run bank, where they can withdraw money from their savings accounts or fill out short applications for a $5 loan, all without leaving the building, says Lynn Raymond, a banking and finance teacher at the school.
  • Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-31-schoolbanks_N.htm

• Carter High School in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee –
  • http://carterhs.knoxschools.org/

ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• USF Faculty Presentation- Tampa, FL Feb 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• Induction into Hall of Fame for International Adult and Continung Education- Dr. King, Toronto, Canada, April 6-8, 2011
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CASAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• International Technology conference- Portugal – July 2011- Dr. King (not yet confirmed)

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Author!   Author!

Join us for an insightful interview with Deborah Hopkinson, the celebrated author of children’s fiction and nonfiction.  Deborah discusses with us the inspiration for her new book, “Saving Strawberry Farm,” and the lessons it has embedded within it related to financial literacy.

• What’s this book about?
• What new projects is this author of more than forty books working on?

Tune in and turn it up to find out more about integrating financial literacy in literacy and other content areas

Resources for this Episode

• Ms. Hopkinson’s Website: http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/
• Publisher’s page on the book Saving Strawberry Farm
  http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/Saving-Strawberry-Farm/?isbn=9780688174002
• Penny Auctions (Living History Farm)
  http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_10.html
• Iowa Calls Halt to “Penny Auctions” http://newdeal.feri.org/timeline/1933c.htm
• Timeline: What’s a Penny Auction? http://newdeal.feri.org/timeline/1933c2.htm
• Dust Bowl History
  • http://dustbowlhistory.blogspot.com/2008/02/book-review-saving-strawberry-farm-by.html

• Middle and High School Appropriate Books by Deborah Hopkinson
  • Up Before Daybreak (Social History of Cotton)
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/tradebooks/editor/lsandell_april06.htm
  • Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York
    http://www.bookpage.com/0310bp/children/shutting_out.html

More Related Resources and Articles

• Rutgers University EconKids 
  • http://econkids.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=155
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Teachers Guide/Curriculum
  • http://stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/StrawberryFarm.pdf

Meet Deborah Hopkinson!

Deborah Hopkinson is the author of more than 40 books for young readers including picture books, short fiction, and nonfiction. Her historical fiction picture books often illuminate the lives of ordinary people or forgotten figures in history. She has won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for picture book text twice. A frequent speaker in schools and conferences, she works to help bring history alive and encourage young readers to practice critical thinking and historical thinking skills.

Deborah’s award-winning works include Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the 1994 International Reading association Award; A Band of Angels, an ALA Notable title which also won the Golden Kite Award and was a Jane Addams award honor book; Under the Quilt of Night, winner of the Washington State Book Award, Bluebird Summer, a Golden Kite Award Honor Book, and Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and a 2004 Jane Addams Award honor book

Her 2006 book, Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building, was an ALA Notable and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book, while Up Before Daybreak, Cotton and People in America, won a Carter G. Woodson Award and an ALA Notable book. Shutting out the Sky, Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924, was an honor book for the NCTE Orbis Pictus award, a Jane Addams Award honor book, an IRA Teachers’ Choice, and a James Madison Award Honor Book. Apples to Oregon won the Golden Kite Award and Spur Storytelling Award and was an ALA Notable book.

Sweet Land of Liberty was named an IRA Teachers Choice and a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2008 . Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek, a Junior Library Guild Selection, published in Fall 2008, received three starred reviews and was an ALA Notable book and was named winner of the Comstock Award.

A three-time Oregon Book Award finalist, she won in 2009, receiving the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award in 2009 for Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole. Also in 2009 Home on the Range, John Lomax and His Cowboy Songs, received two starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild Selection, as was Stagecoach Sal, which was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009. Other new books in 2009 included Michelle and First Family, both illustrated by AG Ford. In 2010 Deborah published The Humblebee Hunter, about Charles Darwin and his children, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.

Deborah received a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Massachusetts and holds a master’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She lives near Portland, Oregon, where she serves as Vice President for College Advancement for the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• TSEA Conference Keynote- Austin TX – Jan 27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• FETC Conference Presentation- Orlando, FL, Feb 3, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• USF Faculty Presentation- Tampa, FL Feb 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CSAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King

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