Talking Fin Lit

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In this episode, Get Your Finances Ready for Retirement, Mark and Kathy provide a bevy of resources to expand your personal financial literacy and begin to break through the fear of retirement planning. Resources include reports about the needs for diversified retirement funds, planning for retirement, and how to calculate what is needed to live well in retirement.

Most financial planners will tell you that Social Security will not be sufficient for your retirement needs.

How is your nest egg?          How will you fund your glory days?

And for teachers, this topic becomes another prime opportunity to open new patterns of communication, place math, government, health and policy issues in real-life contexts, and provide a platform for family dialogue and skill building.

Join us for the discussion about the concerns for retirement, the need and the possibilities for learning. Free online resources never made it so easy to break-through financial barriers. Resources include retirement handbooks, calculators and discussions about alternate retirement income sources.

 We emphasize to our listeners, and readers, that we are NOT financial experts; our goal in this series to introduce resources, cast a view of financial literacy as personal financial literacy, and provide free resources for educators.

These episodes are not intended to provide financial advice or counsel. Please consult a certified financial planner who specializes in retirement to assist you in understanding your situation and to plan to meet your needs.

If you take that step or encourage others to do likewise, because of this blog and podcast, we will consider ourselves immensely successful! Thank you!

Resources

PBS Special Report: Retirement

Nightly Business Report – ARCHIVE Report

Retirement Planning Calculators(s):

- AARP Retirement Calculator

- Article on these calculators with links From USA Today

- Article with somewhat opposing view Marketwatch article

Reverse Mortgage Information for Seniors

http://www.letyourhomepayyou.com/

Contact Us

You may contact Mark and Kathy by

• leaving a comment here on the blog/site
• emailing us at podcast@talkingfinlit.org

Podcast Feed:

Our podcast feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/talkingfinlit

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Talking Financial Literacy is produced in collaboration among the MS in Adult Education and HRD at Fordham University and The McGraw-Hill Companies.

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In this episode, Mark and Kathy discuss the educational opportunities related to the stage of life in which we help take care of our parents, grandparents and other older adults. Our approach on this topic is to help educators and students develop a new understanding of personal literacy to reach different areas of their lives. This topic provides rich opportunities for family literacy, intergenerational dialogue, problem solving, research, embedded literacy projects and critical thinking.

While some teachers may have already experienced the need to do this and begun to negotiate the complex world of finance for elders, others may be less aware of the retirement needs, financial picture, living needs, rights and dangers, which surround elder care. This topic is a powerful to become conversant in to assist your students in exploring it.

 We emphasize to our listeners that we are not financial experts; our goal in this series to introduce resources, cast a view of financial literacy as personal literacy, and provide ideas and free resources for educators to use across curriculum and grade levels.

These episodes are not intended to provide financial advice or counsel. Please consult a certified financial planner and a lawyer who specializes in elder care to assist you in understanding your situation and to plan to meet your needs. If you take that step or encourage others to do likewise, because of this blog and podcast, we are immensely successful in our mission!

World Health Organization Data  2008

How long will you live in retirement: 20, 30, 40 years?

Check this out: Life expectancy in USA as of 2008

• White women 81, Black women, 77
•  White men 76, Black men, 70

Elder Financial Care Resources
Information to help understand the issues related to helping take care of older people in your family.

PBS Handbook Understanding Finances
Resources Directory Elder Financial Care

Financial Abuse

What is it?

Where does it come from?

How to prevent it!

[Click to read an informative document on this topic]

Senior/Elder Care Financial Services

Comprehensive Solutions for Seniors has helped many families make the most of their financial resources and assets to provide the best possible care for loved ones. Let our experience and knowledge work for you.

http://www.senioreldercare.com/financial_services.htm

Reverse Mortgage Information for Seniors

http://www.letyourhomepayyou.com/

 

Contact Us

You may contact Mark and Kathy by

• leaving a comment here on the blog/site
• emailing us at podcast@talkingfinlit.org

Podcast Feed:

Our podcast feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/talkingfinlit

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Youth and Entrepreneurship Interview with Dan Rabuzzi

 

NFTE 2007 Marketing Video

Join us for the second part of this informative and inspiring episode with Dan Rubuzzi, of NFTE. In this episode Dan continues to shareg his considerable experience and expert perspective on the current state of financial literacy learning, needs, and resources. You will gain much from these practical examples, resources and ideas you hear!

In addition, Mark and Kathy discuss some critical news items and resources to round out a rich episode to assist and guide educators, students and learners of all ages advance their understanding and mastery of personal financial literacy, and in this case entrepreneurship!

Global discussion of the ever changing needs emerging from the world of personal finance

Talking Fin Lit Episode Part 1 of Interview Click here

Lead Article

Pretend money may produce real academic gains
Students at a Washington, D.C., KIPP charter school earn pretend paychecks for completing homework, behaving well and improving academically and can trade the fake dollars for small items at the school store, like pens and pencil cases, or exchange it for rewards like being allowed to wear casual clothes on Fridays. The rewards motivate the children initially and help them develop better study habits; eventually, however, success becomes its own reward, say the program’s backers, such as principal Sarah Hayes of KEY Academy, which now sports some of D.C.’s top test scores despite its population of low-income, disadvantaged students. National Public Radio/Associated Press (6/13)

Resources

ZEROMILLION- Many articles here

• http://www.zeromillion.com/young/

The Evolution of a Young Entreprenuer2008-05-01 Ryan P Allis
Do You Have What It Takes?

2008-03-25 Ryan P Allis
Assimilation Into Organizational Communication

2006-05-04 Christin Gulick
Life Lessons For Young Entreprenurs

2005-06-17 Gary Drumm
5 Keys to Breaking Into Entrepreneurship

2005-05-12 Leigh Goldberg
Following the Way of the Entrepreneur

2005-03-30 James Coombs
Climbing Out of Your Comfort Zone

2005-03-21 Leigh Goldberg
ETC………………………

Teen Business Link from SBA

• Small Business Administration: this site is full of ideas and resources
• http://www.sba.gov/teens/

Raising Entrepreneurs

• Teaching, parenting and guiding students into fin lit
• http://raisingentrepreneurs.org/blog/

Teaching Kids About Money and Business

Good blog with post in the following categories:

o Business Concepts
o business Ideas
o Mindset
o News
o Parenting
o Personal Finance
o Schooling
o Teaching Ideas
o Young Entrepreneurs

So you get a variety of discussion perspectives on the above from interested individuals…

Contact Us

You may contact Mark and Kathy by

• leaving a comment here on the blog/site
• emailing us at podcast@talkingfinlit.org

Podcast Feed:

Our podcast feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/talkingfinlit

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Kathy and Mark share insights and resources on the topic of using entrepreneurship as a focus for student financial literacy. The centerpiece of this episode is Part 1 of an interview with Dan Rabuzzi , national program director for NFTE (The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship). This compelling interview provides valuable insight into the power of using this model with students as they take the CEO seat and realize the details and reality of finance. In our changing world careers are very different and many students will in fact be small business managers, consultants or CEOs. Therefore this knowledge and exposure needs to expanded beyond our business classes and CTE programs solely. NFTE is a great model of a program that works.Added to this exciting interview, Mark and Kathy also provide an article to kick off the episode and  new media resources which will help your students dialogue with others on the topic of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Growing their global perspective, building their understanding of personal finance, enabling students to create content- all empowering principles for our classrooms.

 

Join us for this exciting episode as we explore the global realm

of personal finance for financial literacy education.

Lead News Article

“Students learn to create, not find, jobs”

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/02/14/student.entrepreneur.ap/index.html

Report: Many Indiana students poorly prepared to manage money
Six of ten Indiana high-school students failed a national money-management survey, and about the same number say they learned everything they know about the topic at home, according to a new Indiana Youth Institute report. Schools would do well to instruct students on money management, helping them to distinguish between wants and needs and the proper use of debit cards, said Lena Yarian, president of Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana. The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (6/2)

Resources

Young Entrepreneur

Discussion forums for younger entrepreneurs http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/

and BLOG http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/

Retire at 21

http://www.retireat21.com/top-young-entrepreneurs/

Contact Us

You may contact Mark and Kathy by

• leaving a comment here on the blog/site
• emailing us at podcast@talkingfinlit.org

Podcast Feed:

Our podcast feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/talkingfinlit

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Interview with Phyllis Frankfort

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Reflections on Mark’s interview with Phyllis Frankfort, founder and director of W!SE ( http://www.wise-ny.org ) a pioneering and powerful organization for financial literacy education. Under her leadership W!SE programs reach more than 20,000 students each year including the development of a financial literacy certification. Join us as we hear the inspiring story of how she conceived, developed, and launched this program which has made a great impact in financial literacy education in schools.

Working In Support of Education (w!se) is an educational nonprofit dedicated to providing educational support services nationwide, building financial literacy, fostering business and social entrepreneurship, and preparing students for college and the global workplace.

The w!se family of innovative programs positively affects the lives of young people and improves the quality of education. w!se inspires young people to dream and prepare for their future, equips them with the tools and life skills they need to achieve their full potential, and encourages them to make good choices.

w!se serves urban secondary school students in low-to-moderate-income areas. Extensive partnerships with schools and the private sector and a reputation for sustainable programs with measurable results have made w!se a leader in the educational community.

Reminder about the ISTE NECC MEET-UP!

• June 30, 2008- San Antonio, TX
• You are invited!
• Raffle prizes from Otterbox for iPods and iPhones
• Learning and networking opps- even be part of a podcast
• You are invited! Read more…

Contact Us

You may contact Mark and Kathy by

• leaving a comment here on the blog/site
• emailing us at podcast@talkingfinlit.org

Podcast Feed:

Our podcast feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/talkingfinlit

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