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February 23, 2023

Teachers support personal finance education

by Courtney Poquette, et al We are Vermont educators who teach high school personal finance, and we are united in support of legislation that would guarantee a full-semester, standalone personal finance course as a graduation requirement for all Vermont students.

Why is it so important to the future of our young students? Research by Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) and others demonstrates clearly that guaranteed personal finance education leads to positive outcomes and improves lives forever.

That is why we heartily endorse HB228, which would require just such a standalone course.

The traditional approach in high school is to teach students how to manage money for companies they will work for. But our young people never learn how to manage their own money, and their parents often are not money-savvy either, since they also were not taught personal finance.

In 2023, we believe that all high school graduates must be financially literate, whether they are headed to college, work or the military after graduation.

We are fortunate to be in schools that have a guaranteed personal finance course. Many of us have designed our own lessons and materials, but now, free curricula, lesson plans and other resources are available online through non-profits like NGPF.

Some high schools have partnered with the Community College of Vermont to attract students to the class who were college bound and had busy schedules. Now they can take the class and obtain college credit.

Our students think they will be rich if they earn $40,000 a year when they graduate. In our classes, we help them to realize how expensive their dream lifestyles are. Such reality checks force them to question decisions in their near futures, like college majors, job salaries, the cost of credit and more.

You would not believe how often we hear from students and their parents that our course has changed the direction of students’ lives for the better. And as teachers, we learn too. After all, we have household budgets, kids to send to college and retirement to think about.

Not long ago, a report showed that parents would rather talk to their kids about sex than about money. Personal finance classes make talking about money at the dinner table the new normal. Students in our classes use math, reading and language skills while working on monthly budgets and retirement plans. What could be more important today?

Many of Vermont’s educators have become confident teaching personal finance through free training provided by Champlain College’s Center for Financial Literacy, NGPF or other organizations like the Jump$tart Coalition.

So we have confident, trained teachers, free curriculum and with innovative ideas, we can make room for high school personal finance. There is no reason not to move forward.

The good news is that teachers, administrators and legislators across the nation are passionately advocating for this change. As of this writing, 17 states have passed legislation guaranteeing full-semester personal finance courses, and NGPF reports that there are currently 74 bills in 21 other states, including Vermont, in process.

We hope all states, including Vermont, adopt a guaranteed high school course. It’s an especially important issue in many black and brown school districts, where access to personal finance learning is more limited than in whiter, more affluent district.

Personal finance is a critical skill that perhaps more than any course sets students up to succeed in life. We never have to explain to our students why the course is important. They get it. Let’s make sure all Vermont high school students get it.

Signed,

Courtney Poquette, Winooski High School, Winooski

Mary Brouilette, Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans

Bob Fredette, Lamoille Union High School, Hyde Park

Angela Pandis, Missisquoi Valley Union HS/MS, Swanton

Drew Gordon, South Burlington High School, Burlington

Evidence that Financial Education Improves Behavioral Outcomes

Evidence-Based Policy & Implementation Resources

Evidence that Financial Education Improves Behavioral Outcomes

a) The Effects of K-12 Financial Education Mandates on Student Postsecondary Education Outcomes

Research from the National Endowment for Financial Education. Financial education mandates have positive impacts on student borrowing behaviors across all income groups. States with personal finance graduation requirements have students with a higher incidence of applying for financial aid, a lower incidence of borrowing from private student lenders, a higher incidence of receiving grants and federal aid, and a lower likelihood of carrying credit card balances.

b) Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and If So, When?

Most earlier studies of financial education rely on outdated financial education requirements. Kaiser and Menkhoff show significant positive effects of financial education on both financial literacy (knowledge) and financial behavior. This meta-analysis corrects an often cited meta-analysis from Fernandes et. al. (2014), adding additional interventions and a more rigorous statistical methodology to make its conclusions. Compelling, rigorously critiqued evidence of the need for “just in time” financial education for high school students.

c) Financial Education Matters: Testing the Effectiveness of Financial Education Across 76 Randomized Experiments

We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. The evidence shows that financial education programs have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment effects are economically meaningful in size, similar to those realized by educational interventions in other domains, and are at least three times as large as the average effect documented in earlier work. These results are robust to the method used, restricting the sample to papers published in top economics journals, including only studies with adequate power, and accounting for publication selection bias in the literature. We conclude with a discussion of the cost-effectiveness of financial education interventions.

d) Does State-Mandated Financial Education Affect High-Cost Borrowing? (UPDATED 2019)

“…young adults who were required to take personal finance courses in high school were significantly less

likely to borrow payday loans than their peers who were not. These effects do not significantly differ by race/ethnicity or gender, suggesting that financial education may be useful regardless of demographics.”

e) Retirement Savings with School-Based Financial Education

Students’ financial literacy performance is significantly associated with their schools’ and teachers’ characteristics, both positive and negative. Students who attend a school with adequate teaching materials and competent teachers — those who demonstrate control over their classroom and try to actively engage with students — are more likely to perform at the two highest levels on the PISA financial literacy test.

f) Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality

Financial literacy plays a key role in explaining inequality. Different levels of financial knowledge early in life have important implications for how much people will save. Adding financial knowledge to life cycle models permits a more accurate rendering of a world where consumers must cope with complex financial markets and must save so as to provide for their own retirement.

g) The impact of high school financial education: experimental evidence from Brazil

This paper studies the impact of a comprehensive financial education program spanning six states, 868 schools, and approximately 20,000 high school students in Brazil through a randomized control trial. The program increased student financial knowledge, increased saving rates for purchases, better likelihood of financial planning, and greater participation in household financial decisions by students. “Trickle-up” impacts on parents were also significant, with improvements in parent financial knowledge, savings, and spending behavior. The study also finds evidence that the program affected students’ inter-temporal preferences and attitudes.

h) Personal Finance Education Mandates & Student Loan Repayment

“Students with higher-income parents respond by adjusting borrowing, reducing median balances by 7{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}. By contrast, first-generation and low-income borrowers bound by mandates did not significantly adjust borrowing, but were nonetheless more likely to pay down balances..”

i) Can financial literacy reduce domestic violence?

“Yes. Using data on more than 3.7 million intimate partner violence (IPV) incidents between 1994 and 2016, and exploiting the staggered introduction of state-mandated personal finance high school graduation requirements across U.S. states for identification, we show that improvements in women’s financial literacy can significantly reduce the rates of violence against women perpetrated by their male partners. We conservatively estimate a reduction in violence by between 3{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} and 11{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}. Our evidence points to financial literacy deterring financial abuse, thereby empowering women to leave abusive relationships earlier or by preventing the first incident from ever occurring.”

Evidence-Based Policy & Implementation Resources

a) Transforming the Financial Lives of a Generation of Young Americans POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADVANCING K-12 FINANCIAL EDUCATION

What we propose here is a comprehensive strategy to impart personal financial management skills to young people while they are in school. Recommendation 1: Introduce key financial education concepts early and continue to build on that foundation consistently throughout the K-12 school years. In addition, CFPB encourages states to make a stand-alone financial education course a graduation requirement for high school students. Recommendation 2: Include personal financial management questions in standardized tests. Recommendation 3: Provide opportunities throughout the K-12 years to practice money management through innovative, hands-on learning opportunities. Recommendation 4: Create consistent opportunities and incentives for teachers to take financial education training with the express intention of teaching financial management to their students

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (2013). Transforming the Financial Lives of a Generation of Young Americans POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADVANCING K-12 FINANCIAL EDUCATION. [online] consumerfinance.gov. Available at: http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201304_cfpb_OFE-Policy-White-Paper-Final.pdf

b) Final Report – President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability

The Council acknowledges that financial capability must be woven into the fabric of our lives—into our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our communities, even the design and regulation of the financial products and services we use.

United States Treasury. (2013). Final Report President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability. [online] treasury.gov. Available at: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/financial-education/Documents/PACFC{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}20final{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}20report{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}20revised{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}2022513{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}20{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}288{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550}29_R.pdf

c) Financial Capabilities of College Students from States with Varying Financial Education Policies

Well-educated students exhibit positive financial behaviors. After analyzing data from 15,797 college students, Gutter found that students from states where a financial education course was required had the highest reported financial knowledge and were more likely to display positive financial behaviors and dispositions. Compared to other students, these young adults were: More likely to save; Less likely to max out their credit cards; Less likely to make late credit card payments; More likely to pay off credit cards in full each month; Less likely to be compulsive buyers; More likely to be willing to take average financial risk

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d) Financial Education in High Schools Across America

State-level embedded course requirement mandates do not result in full compliance. While this lack of compliance could be because course catalog descriptions do not detail financial literacy instruction in all schools, it could also be because state departments of education have trouble auditing embedded course mandates. In our estimate, only 43{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} within states that have embedded course mandates have either a standalone or embedded course requirement.

e) Financial Literacy Subject Survey

Between July 15th and 17th, 2017 the National Financial Educators Council asked 5,123 young adults, “What high school-level course would benefit your life the most?” Respondents chose money management more often than math, science, and social studies:

49.97{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} selected “Money Management (Personal Finance)”
18.25{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} selected “Mathematics (Algebra, Geometry)”
14.43{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} selected “Social Studies (History, Government)”
17.35{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} selected “Science (Biology, Chemistry)”

State by state results are available: NFEC Survey: “Should High Schools Require Financial Literacy?”

NFEC. (2017). Financial Literacy Subject Survey. [online] Available at: https://www.financialeducatorscouncil.org/Financial-literacy-subject-survey/

f) A review of youth financial education: Effects and Evidence

“This report reviews current research and reporting in the field, and is intended to inform policymakers, practitioners, financial educators, and researchers of the current state of rigorous evidence on financial education in schools”… “This report features studies that (1) evaluate youth financial education programs in schools, (2) have a causal interpretation evidenced by a randomized controlled trial, natural experiment setting, or a valid pre-post study design, and (3) have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals or as reviewed working papers. Note that the studies predominantly relate to school based programs, as this is the context in which most youth financial education research has occurred.”

“Well-implemented state financial education mandates led to a clear improvement in financial behaviors.”
“Many U.S. financial education programs improve financial knowledge for students, though effect sizes vary based on the population served, amount of instruction time, and topics covered.”
“Other countries have used more widespread randomized controlled trials to study the effects of programs as they embed and expand them broadly. Those studies also provide useful information.”
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (2019). A review of youth financial education: Effects and Evidence. [online] consumerfinance.gov. Available at: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_youth-financial-education_lit-review.pdf

g) Digital vs. in-person financial education: What works best for Generation Z?

“Nowadays, financial literacy is one of the most important skills that can be acquired by a tech-savvy Generation Z student. In order to understand what format of financial education works best for Generation Z, we set up an experiment that involved implementing a financial education program called “Futuro Sicuro” with a sample of 650 High School students in Italy. The program allowed us to gather data from two treatments at the class level, namely 1) a traditional financial education simplified program with the presence of a financial advisor, and 2) a digital financial education program using web-based applications based on learning-by-playing concepts. The two treatments were associated with different costs but showed similar effects: three weeks after their conclusion, we find that both courses did increase actual financial knowledge and the results also aligned with participants’ realistic assessments of their own financial skills. A follow-up study also reveals the persistence of these effects three months later for the traditional course.”

h) Best Practices Implementing Financial Education in High Schools

“…breaks the implementation into eight stages: (0) building a coalition, (1) crafting and passing either legislation or administrative rule change, (2) constructing an implementation plan, (3) funding, (4) teacher professional development, (5) developing standards and selecting course resources, (6) teacher endorsement models, and (7) auditing and creating a feedback loop for continuous improvement.”

Urban, Carly (2022). Best Practices Implementing Financial Education in High Schools [online] Available at: https://papers.carlyurban.com/MTBestPracticesReportFINAL.pdf

December 14, 2022

Greenlight Announces New K-12 National Standards-Based Financial Literacy Library for Teachers and Students

Teachers nationwide can now indicator up for early accessibility to Greenlight for School rooms

ATLANTA, December 13, 2022–(Business WIRE)–Greenlight® Economical Technologies, Inc. (“Greenlight”), the fintech company on a mission to aid moms and dads elevate financially-sensible, independent young children, today announces Greenlight for Lecture rooms, a new world wide web-centered monetary literacy library developed for academics, aligned with the K-12 countrywide benchmarks. Starting in 2023, the product or service will be obtainable for totally free for universities, teachers, and college students nationwide.

Inspite of the escalating discussion, individual finance education and learning continue to isn’t a need for pupils to graduate in all 50 states. 27 states really do not call for a individual finance class, even though teenagers score an typical of 64{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} on the Countrywide Financial Literacy Test. At the identical time, 93{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} of teens know they will need financial know-how and abilities to realize their everyday living ambitions, and 97{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} of dad and mom concur.*

Greenlight for Classrooms is an interactive, website-based mostly fiscal literacy library for lecturers with lessons customized to all quality amounts from elementary faculty to higher school. Each and every lesson is aligned with the K-12 national requirements on own monetary education and learning developed by the Leap$tart Coalition and Council for Financial Schooling, covering vital economic subjects like earning, paying out, conserving, investing, taking care of credit history, and much more.

“At Greenlight, we’re centered on serving to mothers and fathers increase fiscally-wise young children with educational means that family members can belief,” claimed Jennifer Seitz, Qualified Economic Education and learning Teacher and Director of Education at Greenlight. “With Greenlight for Classrooms, we will now also support educators empower their students to achieve the fiscal information and abilities they want for their futures.”

Greenlight for Lecture rooms incorporates extra than 100 animated movies and an evaluation financial institution with 1000’s of vocabulary terms and test thoughts, such as a number of-preference, correct or false, and situation-based solutions for used studying. More extensions involve quizzes, specific venture ideas, and dialogue routines, alongside with a teacher’s guide.

“Greenlight’s economical literacy content is participating and straightforward to recognize for students. Instructors can conveniently incorporate it into their economics lessons with out worrying about how perfectly they go over the standards,” explained Misha Thompson, teacher at Mount Zion Elementary College. “I sense quite assured assigning the lessons for independent exploration and then next up with the accompanying guided issues. This solution will get an A+!”

Greenlight was a short while ago named a National Husband or wife of the Bounce$tart Coalition for Private Financial Literacy, which provides with each other more than 100 like-minded organizations that share a dedication to advancing youth economical literacy. Greenlight has also partnered with training-concentrated makes like Kahoot! to build a selection of free of charge personal finance quizzes and Million Bazillion, a money literacy podcast for youngsters and families presented by Greenlight and American General public Media.

“Greenlight is a true chief in financial training that has had a huge affect on improving fiscal literacy amongst families,” stated Laura Levine, President and CEO of the Jump$tart Coalition. “We’re pleased to figure out the business as a Jump$tart Countrywide Lover.”

Greenlight has constantly been fully commited to improving upon fiscal literacy with its field-major products and greatest-in-course educational assets. Its award-winning banking app for people teaches youngsters and teens invaluable money expertise like how to receive, preserve, invest correctly, and make investments. Educational methods created for children and teens are embedded all through the application, like video clips, quizzes, and extra, which have been seen additional than 3 million instances to date. Currently, Greenlight serves a lot more than 5 million mom and dad and youngsters, who have collectively saved extra than $350 million and invested far more than $20 million.

Academics can indicator up to obtain early access to Greenlight for School rooms at greenlight.com/school rooms.

*Survey insights had been gathered by Greenlight via a Researchscape survey fielded concerning March 18 and March 20, 2022, amongst 1,096 respondents in the U.S., break up between teenagers ages 13-18 and mom and dad of 13-18 12 months olds.

About Greenlight

Greenlight Fiscal Technological know-how is the family members fintech organization on a mission to support parents raise fiscally-good, unbiased youngsters. Its product, Greenlight, is an award-successful banking app, complete with a debit card for kids and teenagers, funds back again credit rating card for mom and dad and basic safety features for the whole spouse and children. Moms and dads can automate allowance, control chores, established versatile invest controls and spend for their family’s foreseeable future. Young ones and teenagers study to gain, conserve, expend correctly, give and invest with parental approval. Together, households can also keep protected and connected with area sharing, SOS alerts and crash detection with automatic 911 dispatch to get help if they need it.

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December 23, 2021

Teaching Strategies Launches First-of-its-Kind Coaching App to Support Teachers, Children Impacted by Trauma

Company acquires trauma-focused edtech get started-up and product, making on longstanding motivation to innovation in early childhood schooling and remedies to make improvements to entire-boy or girl results

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Training Approaches, the country’s main developer of early childhood curriculum, evaluation, specialist understanding, and spouse and children engagement remedies, these days introduced the acquisition of Noni Educational Options, a trauma-concentrated edtech start-up that has designed a groundbreaking, application-centered source made to aid preschool-5th grade lecturers doing the job with young children who have been impacted by trauma.

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The answer, named noni™ for Academics, was produced in partnership with Adventist Healthcare The Lourie Middle for Kid’s Social & Psychological Wellness, a pioneer in research on ideal practices for supporting small children impacted by trauma and adverse childhood encounters.

“Even prior to the pandemic, additional than two-thirds of children experienced professional at the very least one particular traumatic celebration by the age of 16,” explained Jimmy Venza, Ph.D., boy or girl psychologist and government director of the Lourie Heart. “In the aftermath of these previous two several years and the resulting stresses put on people and young children, that statistic is only probably to worsen.”

“Now a lot more than at any time, lecturers have to have and should have our help for trauma-informed instruction and coaching,” claimed Training Methods CEO John Olsen. “We’re excited to welcome Noni Instructional Methods to the Training Methods family. noni™ for Lecturers fills a gap not achieved by any other option in the market and gives educators the instruments and help they need to have to treatment for little ones impacted by trauma and enable them control behavior so they can find out.”

noni™ for Instructors is an app-centered digital mentor and assortment of classroom teaching resources that information instructors by way of providing trauma-knowledgeable instruction. The application makes use of true-time responsive engineering, serving up fast advice dependent on teacher input and giving academics the ability to monitor and even forecast kid behaviors that stem from exposure to toxic anxiety and adverse childhood experiences.

“We know from decades of investigation on functioning with young young children who have been uncovered to adverse childhood encounters that the teacher-child marriage can in fact act as a buffer from the detrimental impact of trauma,” claimed Kai-leé Berke, co-founder of Noni Academic Methods and an writer of several of Training Strategies’ curriculum and evaluation sources. “Acquiring individually knowledgeable traumatic situations as a younger youngster, and sooner or later training and caring for young children who experienced also had exposure to adverse childhood encounters, I know firsthand what academics deal with as pupils return to the common classroom. Addressing the lifelong mental and physical problems that can result from trauma is crucial to a student’s achievements, and we will have to assure our educators have the support to do so.”

The application also supplies intervention and prevention designs, entire-class guidance, aid for partnering with families of trauma-impacted youngsters, crafted-in teacher qualified progress around trauma and adverse childhood activities, and resources that handle teachers’ possess self-care and mental wellness.

The app and teaching sources will be readily available for rapid acquire by educational institutions and packages. It seamlessly joins Educating Strategies’ family members of alternatives to support social-psychological discovering in early childhood education which includes The Resourceful Curriculum®, Al’s Pals™, GOLD®, ReadyRosie®, and qualified progress classes.

About Educating Tactics
Pushed by study that exhibits a kid’s very first eight decades variety a important basis for success in university and in daily life, Instructing Procedures has been an advocate for the early instruction community for more than 40 yrs. These days, Educating Strategies connects instructors, kids and households to impressed educating and mastering ordeals, informative knowledge, much better family members partnerships, and expert studying by the top early discovering platform and methods. Its goods, including the most greatly-employed curriculum and assessment methods The Artistic Curriculum® and GOLD®, are uncovered in above 270,000 school rooms and reach about 2 million small children every single calendar year. To understand why 1000’s of early childhood courses and several states decide on to husband or wife with Educating Methods to assist assure children’s results in university and in everyday living, check out teachingstrategies.com and follow us on Twitter @TeachStrategies.

About Noni Instructional Remedies
Noni Instructional Answers is an instruction technologies get started-up that is building assistance and resources for teachers and caregivers who have children in their school rooms who have been impacted by adverse childhood activities. Their mission is to aid academics across the region in supplying trauma-informed, relationship-dependent, responsive care to youthful little ones. Co-started by Kai-leé Berke and Tia Disick, lifelong early instruction specialists, the firm is targeted on creating ground breaking strategies to leverage the electricity of know-how to guidance constructing the sort of secure, protected interactions among teachers and trauma-impacted younger children that lay the basis for productive information discovering. Find out a lot more at www.nonieducationalsolutions.com.

About Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Centre for Children’s Social & Psychological Wellness
The Lourie Center is a private, non-revenue company with a mission to boost the social and emotional well being of young young children and their families by prevention, early intervention, education and learning, investigate and coaching. It was founded in 1983 by the late Dr. Reginald S. Lourie, a environment-large chief in the fields of pediatric boy or girl psychiatry and toddler psychological health, and his renowned colleagues, which include Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Stanley Greenspan, as an outgrowth of their 6-yr clinical study task funded by the Countrywide Institute of Psychological Health. Many years of extensive research affirm the impression of The Lourie Center’s courses for trauma-impacted youthful youngsters, which include an 80{ac23b82de22bd478cde2a3afa9e55fd5f696f5668b46466ac4c8be2ee1b69550} good results amount in transitioning children to public faculty academic and social gains and decreased suspension and expulsion fees. Learn additional at www.louriecenter.org.

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December 22, 2021

A Bilingual Teacher’s Unusual Journey from Finance to Education

Like most educators, Raissa Lee had to put in a lot of work to be able to work with children, but her path to becoming a teacher started when she was a child herself.

Growing up in a small Missouri town, she knew early on she wanted to be a teacher; she worked hard in school, often staying with neighbors or friends because her parents worked long hours. Lee’s parents, who came to the U.S. from China, made it very clear that despite her desire to become a teacher, her future career options should be limited to the lucrative titles of doctor, lawyer, accountant or engineer. Her peers and even teachers resisted the idea too, with a dash of racism to boot. As the only Asian in her class, she remembers comments on her appearance and being called racial slurs.

“This was in the eighties when there weren’t a lot of Asians living in Missouri,” Lee says.

Lee tried to make it work and explored her parents’ dream careers. She decided she could not be a doctor because the sight of blood made her squeamish. When she went to study to become a lawyer, she says she was told that she needed to learn to be a liar, but that didn’t sit well with her either. Finally, she settled for a career in finance because she knew she could be good at it, and she was right. Eventually, she came to excel in the financial sector, but no matter how much money she made, she felt empty inside and remembered that little girl who wanted to teach.

Educator Raissa Lee of ABC Mom teaches kids about the five senses in Mandarin and English with a Mr. Potato Head picture. — Raissa Lee teaches kids about the five senses in Mandarin and English with a Mr. Potato Head picture. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

After rejecting an opportunity to continue working in finance, Lee decided to follow her dream and went back to school (keeping her parents’ concerns about her financial security in education in the back of her mind). She earned a degree in international relations and got her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential with a BCLAD (Bilingual Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development) Mandarin Emphasis from California State University, Fullerton in 2002. Then, she got a master’s degree in Elementary Curriculum & Instruction with an early education emphasis. Finally, with her degrees in hand, she started her teaching career in the Irvine Unified and Newport Mesa Unified school districts, but even then, she faced resistance.

Earning the trust and love of a child is such a gift. This job is not just babysitting. …We are [shaping] the brains of our future.

Raissa Lee

As a teacher in Irvine, Lee learned how challenging it was to work with kids in advanced placement, or the Alternative Program for Academically Advanced Students. She says parents were often aggressive to her because they didn’t deem her qualified to teach their children. There was even an instance when parents tried to set up a camera in her classroom, but she never gave up.

“One mom told me ‘I don’t think you can teach my child math. He only got a B.’” Lee says. “So she pulled him from my class.”

Now, almost 20 years later, she continues to teach. “My heart was always in education. You have to do what you feel called to, so here I am!” she says.

As the owner, operator — and sometimes sole employee — of ABC Mom, which stands for American-Born Chinese Mom, Lee spends her days bringing culturally aware learning experiences to families with paths similar to her own.

She says she started ABC Mom because she “really wanted to create a place where children are safe and loved, just like they would be at home.”

1/7 Recently, Raissa Lee and her students made homemade tortillas for lunch. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

2/7 Raissa Lee teaches kids about sorting sweet and salty food during a Thanksgiving pijama day activity. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

3/7 When students were focusing on symphonies, Raissa Lee organized a field trip to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

4/7 Raissa Lee’s students learn about students about human body systems and X-rays. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

5/7 A few of Raissa Lee’s students pose dressed as snowflakes. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

6/7 Raissa Lee visits Irvine’s City Hall with her students. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

7/7 Raissa Lee visits local police officers with her students to thank them for their work.

Most of her students come from Chinese and other Asian backgrounds, but some are from Latin America and even Europe; and for Lee, they’re all practically family.

Lee says ABC Mom’s goal goes beyond just educating children. It involves parents too, which is why she’s created a multitude of resources to help immigrant families prepare their kids for the American school system; she says there’s a huge disparity in early education that stems from kids’ backgrounds.

She offers a STEM-based curriculum and a Dual Language Mandarin English immersion learning experience, but to combat that disparity for all her kids, she created an entire infrastructure guiding families and kids to success. Her system includes weekly check-ins, virtual parent book clubs and even a podcast she made herself.

“A lot of these families that come from culturally different backgrounds don’t have the coaching, the strategies or the resources to understand how to help a child grow socially and emotionally,” Lee says.

It’s an involved job to say the least. At the onset of the pandemic, Lee didn’t want her husband and sons to help her because she feared exposing them to illness, and soon, like many other caregivers, she became the only staff member at ABC Mom. She says she insisted on doing everything herself. From cleaning and sanitizing the rooms and equipment the children would use throughout the day, to preparing meals and the daily activities, she realized quickly that she was pushing her limits.

The stress caught up to her and she says she started feeling discomfort and pain. After visiting the doctor, she found out there was a blood clot in her lungs. She knew it was time to figure out an alternative plan to make ABC Mom run smoothly, for the sake of her health and her business. So, she relented and allowed her family to help her. With her husband waking up early each morning to prepare healthy meals for the children and her sons helping her keep the house clean and sanitized, she was able to get back on track and focus on the children and their education.

2021 Raissa Lee Family Pic ABC Mom — Raissa Lee smiles with her family. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

That lesson of taking care of oneself has definitely stuck with her and she’s been learning to do less. When she first started her program, she says, “I said I was going to do these monthly events, potlucks etc. and the licensing person I talked to said ‘Don’t do that, you’re just going to burn yourself out.””

She says other early educators like her need to take better care of themselves, especially during precarious times like the pandemic, and that support from the community is the key to success.

“You have to have that understanding that education is important [and] continued investment as an educator and care provider is essential,” Lee says “And then you also have to have the help to get you there.”

ABC Mom Educator Raissa Lee takes her kids on a nature walk — Raissa Lee’s students go on nature walks as often as Lee can take them. | Courtesy of Raissa Lee

It hasn’t been easy, but she is passionate about her work and sees her job as a privilege, as well as a welcome responsibility. “Earning the trust and love of a child is such a gift,” she says. “This job is not just babysitting. …We are [shaping] the brains of our future.”

November 16, 2021

Adtalem Global Education Foundation Enters Strategic Partnership with Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

Philanthropic Initiative Supports Educational Spouse and children Medicine Antiracism Mastering Collaborative Project

CHICAGO, November 16, 2021–(Organization WIRE)–The Adtalem Global Education and learning Foundation has announced a two-year strategic partnership with the Modern society of Academics of Relatives Medication (“STFM”), a national local community of tutorial leaders committed to creating an accomplished relatives medication workforce ready to provide as the foundation of America’s overall health care procedure.

With a two-12 months determination of $180,750, the Adtalem World-wide Education Basis will serve as the lead philanthropic associate for STFM’s Academic Relatives Medicine Antiracism Understanding Collaborative, a challenge to:

Empower and teach faculty, so they will recognize racist constructions and behaviors in their educational institutions and become leaders for change
Encourage allyship
Spread successful alter approaches

“Adtalem is dedicated to combatting inequality and encouraging civic engagement throughout the entirety of the health care sector,” claimed Stephen Beard, president and CEO of Adtalem Worldwide Training. “This partnership involving the Adtalem World wide Education Foundation and STFM strategically aligns with that motivation. Supporting and using aspect in this countrywide collaborative will aid leaders and changemakers across the industry, which include our very own school individuals, identify new techniques to combatting structural racism in medication and boost health and fitness results and fairness by reducing disparities.”

“We are grateful to have the Adtalem Global Education Foundation as a philanthropic husband or wife for this initiative,” claimed Judy Washington, M.D., president of the STFM Basis. “We are hopeful that this is the commencing of an ongoing marriage to advance racial equity in professional medical education and learning.”

The Adtalem World-wide Education Foundation’s grant funding will aid guidance a 20-thirty day period study where up to 20 picked pairs will show up at in-individual and digital schooling periods as they refine and employ jobs to lessen racism within just their respective establishments. Pairs will include things like a school member from a loved ones medication division or residency software and an ally from the same system, institution or health and fitness procedure. Pairs will be assigned mentors who will provide direction and expertise.

“The venture fills critical gaps in the attempts presently being implemented in academic establishments,” said Tricia Elliott, M.D., chair of the STFM Antiracism Job Power. “The dyad composition both encourages allyship and empowers and educates individuals so they can be designs and advocates for antiracism and come to be leaders for adjust.”

Adtalem’s establishments, American College of the Caribbean School of Medication, Chamberlain College, Ross University Faculty of Medication, Ross College College of Veterinary Drugs and Walden College, collectively contribute to expanding access to instruction for a numerous variety of students. As the Adtalem World wide Instruction Foundation joins forces with STFM to help the collaborative, their merged initiatives will boost racial equity and support tackle the prevalence of racism in educational family medicine.

For additional information about STFM’s Tutorial Family Medication Antiracism Learning Collaborative, stop by https://stfm.org/information/2021news/10_11_21-simply call-for-applications-for-antiracism-mastering-collaborative.

About the Modern society of Instructors of Loved ones Drugs

Established in 1967, the Modern society of Teachers of Relatives Medicine (STFM) is a nationwide community of educational leaders dedicated to producing an accomplished household drugs workforce, geared up to serve as the basis of America’s well being treatment process. Associates contain physicians, PAs, nurse practitioners, behavioral overall health specialists, researchers, nurses and other wellbeing care experts, wellness process executives, directors, fellows, citizens, pupils, and other folks involved in the education and learning of family physicians. Stick to STFM on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, or take a look at stfm.org for a lot more details.

About Adtalem World-wide Instruction Basis

Launched in 2010, the Adtalem Worldwide Instruction Basis is structured to aid charitable, educational and investigate reasons. The Foundation’s sole member is Adtalem World wide Education. The Foundation’s functions replicate motivation to the subsequent strategic spots: investing to grow accessibility to education, careers and careers supporting the development of the communities where we dwell and get the job done and combating inequality and encouraging civic engagement. Go to the Adtalem World-wide Education and learning Basis for much more details or to apply for funding.

About Adtalem International Schooling

Adtalem World wide Education and learning (NYSE: ATGE), a top workforce remedies provider, partners with companies in the health care and money solutions industries to clear up significant workforce expertise wants by increasing accessibility to education, certifications and upskilling courses at scale. With a committed concentration on driving sturdy results that increase workforce preparedness, Adtalem empowers a various learner populace to realize their aims and make inspiring contributions to the world-wide group. Adtalem is the father or mother group of ACAMS, American College of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Becker Experienced Education and learning, Chamberlain College, EduPristine, OnCourse Finding out, Ross College College of Drugs, Ross University School of Veterinary Drugs and Walden College. Adtalem has more than 10,000 personnel, a network of far more than 275,000 alumni and serves more than 82,000 associates across 200 countries and territories. Adtalem was named one of America’s Most Dependable Corporations 2021 by Newsweek and one of America’s Very best Companies for Variety 2021 by Forbes. Stick to Adtalem on Twitter (@adtalemglobal), LinkedIn or stop by adtalem.com for additional information.

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October 5, 2021

Teachers must be at the heart of post-Covid education recovery

Even right before coronavirus disrupted schooling for 1.5bn children all around the globe, many were struggling with exclusion, inefficiency, high dropout prices and lousy accessibility to large-good quality studying and know-how. Nowadays, Earth Teachers’ Working day, is a fitting instant to underline that tackling a lot of of these complications needs a more powerful partnership with all those on the educational frontline.

In modern yrs, policymakers looking for to fix the understanding disaster have deployed numerous styles, applications and methods, such as blended training, mom tongue instruction, structured pedagogy and Educating at the Right Level, as nicely as instructional technological innovation (edtech).

Yet the reality is that they have yielded modest success. The crisis is deepening, with more than 50 percent of young children in small- and middle-earnings countries not able to read or understand a simple passage by the age of 10, in accordance to the Environment Bank.

The require for critical considering and problem resolving, as well as creativity and the social and collaborative techniques of grace and courtesy have also been neglected. So too have useful expertise vital for the foreseeable future, most of which are not examined but can be integrated into training, this sort of as carpentry, needlework, artwork and crafts, fundamental farming strategies and entrepreneurship.

The top rated priority after the pandemic is to discover what will work very best at the cheapest value, primarily for poorer countries. Credible proof is required for governments to introduce adjustments.

Development is getting created with initiatives these types of as the International Education and learning Proof Advisory Panel to highlight “smart buys”. Excellent actions include things like the provision of info to mothers and fathers and little ones, and structured lesson plans. “Bad buys” incorporate investments in components with no looking at affiliated teacher coaching.

There is a want to pilot innovations, document lessons learnt, and appraise effect ahead of scaling up. Also numerous initiatives have been launched in a hurry, and in most circumstances fall short and squander the revenue invested.

Edtech provides scope to boost results — if it has sufficient assist. It necessitates trainer instruments, time and belief it must be intended and established by, examined with and shared between teachers.

Some innovations are however developed by all those outside the house the faculty technique, who overlook important problems and depart gaps that impede acquire-up. These that fail have generally been created outside the nations wherever they are applied, ignore local context and are imposed on lecturers.

Other improvements undermine skilled autonomy and creativeness, and so hazard failing due to the fact they do not attain the assist of academics and unions. Illustrations include scripted lesson designs necessitating academics to follow each word with no their personal input. Even for those with inadequate abilities, plans should really serve as a reference somewhat than be adopted unquestioningly.

Juliet Wajega: ‘The top precedence just after the pandemic is to discover what functions most effective at the most affordable cost, particularly for poorer countries’

Unions require not be a hurdle to reforms. When they are consulted and revered, they frequently help innovation. In Uganda, the “thematic curriculum” tactic was created to help learners by beginning with common ideas in a nearby language. It failed to acquire root till the union took the direct in making ready teachers, who then swiftly embraced the product. It has demonstrated enhanced outcomes.

Instruction Intercontinental (a federation of teachers’ unions) and person unions have spearheaded improvements these types of as instruction 500 educators in Tanzania to diploma amount in early childhood education and learning. They have served marginalised children by integrating 3,000 community instructors in Mali into the mainstream educating workforce. And the High-quality Educators task in Uganda has mixed technological innovation with pedagogy to improve instructing.

Pupils at university in India © Educate for India

We will need extremely experienced, skilled and motivated teachers operating in perfectly-resourced institutions that are safe and sound, kid-helpful and delicate to gender, and supply feeding programmes for poor young children. In fact, teachers normally have insufficient assistance, operate in underfunded universities and salaries are delayed or unpaid. These pressures have been accentuated by the pandemic, with career losses, amplified workloads and weak performing situations imposed by hybrid and blended understanding. Instructors are expected to perform on- and offline, teach in shifts, change content to shortened conditions and undertake extra pupil assessments.

The vast majority absence the abilities and help to educate on the net. An Education International review in 2020 confirmed only 28 per cent of lecturers in Africa have been presented coaching. More large-top quality trainer recruitment is desired, alongside with original and continuing in-support instruction.

All these techniques require enough funding. Governments want to allocate more assets, alternatively than trimming budgets to fund other sectors. Development associates ought to guidance state-dependent training requires, instead than their personal pre-established priorities.

Policymakers need to stay clear of the temptation to outsource, privatise and commercialise training, in particular making use of organizations that search for to profit from present-day and long run crises. Education is not a commodity, it is a essential human ideal, a general public superior and a public responsibility. Good quality general public education and learning should really be equitable and available to all.

Juliet Wajega is Uganda co-ordinator of the Perform: No Child’s Organization programme and former deputy normal secretary of the Uganda Countrywide Teachers’ Union