• Email Page
• Share Page
• Comments
• Recommend (403)
• Print

Innovative Educators

Each month, we honor an educator who has found new and exciting ways to help children and adults gain financial literacy skills. They’re our Innovative Educators, and they come from all over the country, teaching throughout the grade levels and beyond.

We share their experience here to provide educators and students with good ideas for teaching and learning about money. Hopefully, you’ll find something inspirational in these stories that you can use in your own work.

And if you know of or are an innovative educator yourself, please submit a nomination form. We’re eager to speak with individuals who have found creative ways to teach the fundamental lessons of finance.

May 2012
Innovative Educators: Glenda Seward
Mid Prairie High School
Wellman, Iowa

In her Adult Living classes at Mid Prairie High School, Glenda Seward uses hands-on activities to engage students in learning important financial concepts like compound interest, household budgeting, credit and identity theft. Exercises like having students visually represent household spending categories with colored clay make learning about financial literacy a more involved experience for students. Read more.

Margie Chinadle North Star High School Rudyard, MT February 2012

Debra Becker Osseo Senior High School Osseo, MN March 2012

Alisa Holman Holman Leadership Academy Chicago, IL April 2012