financial literacy Archives

17 Oct 2019

Your Money Problems Impact Your Teaching | Best Business Books To Influence Your Teaching

The third installment of my 'Best Business Books To Influence Your Teaching.' I explore the lessons I've learned from Dave Ramsey's 'The Total Money Makeover' and how it helped my wife and I get out of $120k of medical school debt. Additionally, I share how I've pulled some of the principles into the financial literacy lessons I teach in my classroom. 💰 How We Paid $120,000 of Med School Loans in 4 Years💸 'Create & Manage A Classroom Economy' course📘My Books & Beef Jerky Instagram account https://youtu.be/xO7FUQmWj6U The other videos in this series: Student Motivation4 Hour [Teacher] Workweek Get the…

Collusion, Communism, and Catan…The Best Gamification of a Gov & Econ Class

I got the chance to go into Mike Franz's high school gov & econ class when they were playing YOLO, a year-long game where one week of school represents one year of life. The first week of the game the students are 18 years old, the last week of the game they are near retirement age. What will they make of their society, of their economy, of their investments, of their world? We explore the following: - what the game looks like from beginning to middle to end - how Mike utilizes class jobs to stay organized and to have…