Week of Financial Literacy Program
Financial Literacy Program
Moneyling partners with local financial institutions to bring schools an impactful Week of Financial Literacy or standalone program at minimal to zero cost. Our program offers a comprehensive multi-discipline integration providing teacher support, materials, engaging guest speakers, and interactive sessions for parents and students.
Moreover, we actively facilitate the practical application of financial literacy by hosting a culminating event at the end of the week with our community financial partners where parents, students, and faculty can access support to open new investment and retirement accounts, schedule follow-up appointments, and gain further insights into financial literacy.
A strong bond between the school and local experts ensures that teachers, students, and their families have ongoing access to reliable financial guidance and resources, empowering them to take meaningful strides in addressing the wealth gap.
Program: Offers a Week of Financial Literacy or Standalone program at minimal to zero cost for schools
Partnership: With Schools and local financial experts and institutions.
Multi-Discipline Integration: Provides comprehensive financial education across subject areas
Meets or Exceeds Standards: Our program is designed to meet and exceed state requirements and is in alignment with the National Standards for Personal Finance Education.
Support: Includes teacher support, materials, and guest speakers.
Engagement: Hosts interactive sessions for parents and students.
Practical Application: Culminates with an event to open simple, youth investment and retirement savings accounts.
Ongoing Access: Ensures continued support and guidance from local financial partners.
Goal: Empower communities to address the wealth gap.
MONEYLING's Unique Approach to Teaching Financial Literacy
Moneyling's Approach
Special programs that come to schools typically involve only one or two content areas.
Moneyling is different.
At Moneyling we understand that humans learn through story, so our program is rooted in a simple, ten chapter book that highlights the concepts we want students to glean with regards to financial literacy.
Most financial literacy programs available provide the necessary ideas, but only in their singularity. Moneyling goes several steps further by incorporating lessons on the same theme for several content area teachers. We feel that the more students have contact with the subject matter, the more inclined they are to internalize the very information we feel is necessary to educate them and to close the wealth gap.
For example, our middle school curriculum is based on a story about three girls who are beginning to learn about finances through interactions with their parents, as well as on their own.
The story is a quick read for middle school students which will allow for deeper dives into related content for content-specific teachers which they can use as a review or an introduction to new material.
Math: compound interest,
Business: invoicing and compound interest
Language arts: character development, review of story structure
World language: reading the same story in the target language to reinforce the overall concepts as well as provide discussion points for the WL classroom
Social studies: extracting the possible reasons behind the differences between the characters
At Moneyling, we feel strongly that closing the financial gap is not a one-day program that students and teachers will most likely forget. Instead, we have created a 5-day, all-encompassing program that will be delivered in its entirety, so all teachers have to do is interact with their students as is natural for them - in their own content area specialization. Plug and play. What we know will happen, though, are rich conversations that can only be had about these concepts as they are introduced through story.