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Teacher reports back from national financial‑literacy conference; highlights K–12 resources
Summary
A Mill Creek social studies teacher summarized a financial‑literacy conference he attended in New Orleans, described no‑cost K–12 curricular resources and recommended stronger vocabulary alignment across grade levels to help students understand money in a largely cashless environment.
Danny Woods, a seventh‑grade social studies teacher, told the board on Oct. 27 that he attended a national Council for Economic Education conference in New Orleans and returned with no‑cost resources and classroom strategies for teaching financial literacy from elementary through high school.
"You can't talk about history or anything going on without talking about economics," Woods said, describing conference sessions that included Crash Course economics clips, downloadable lesson sets and virtual‑reality field trips. Woods said some materials are packaged as graphic…
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