Arizona Council on Economic Education

Upcoming Programs

We have a great schedule of fun and exciting new programs for our teachers. Our Programs/Workshops page is filled with exciting new programs to invigorate your classroom lessons. Don't forget to check out all the summer opportunities available for you.

Upcoming Programs include:

Geonomics
Meet the Expert Speaker Series

Student Competitions

Check the results of our exciting spring student competitions on the Programs/Workshops and Stock Market Game pages.

First through third winning teams will be awarded by Arizona Council on Economic Education "Prize Patrols" and awards vary per competition. Please see each individual competition website for full details.

All teachers who entered their students in any of our Spring 2012 student competitions have been automatically entered to win a Kindle Fire! See below for more details.

A Very Special Thank You

The 2012 Dinner and a Movie featuring The Wizard of Oz was a great success!

Our fantastic dinner was graciously donated by Celebrated Cuisine and Chef Laura (www.celebratedcuisine.com), and our raffle gifts were donated by Giftapolis (www.giftapolis.com).

The Arizona Council on Economic Education would like to give a big "Thank You" to all our teachers, students, donors, and friends of ACEE who made the evening exceptional! We appreciate you all!

Win a Kindle Fire

All teachers who entered their students in any of our Spring 2012 student competitions have been automatically entered to win a Kindle Fire (or cash equivalent)! One entry was entered for each separate competition - that's up to three entry's per teacher!

Eligible competitions include:
Stock Market Game , EconChallenge ONLINE!, and  FinanceChallenge ONLINE!

                                            Drawing is take place in May 2012.

Arizona Council on Economic Education Partners with MCC for New Center for Economic Education

Mesa Community College’s Department of Economics, in partnership with the Arizona Council on Economic Education (ACEE), opened the new Center for Economic Education at MCC on January 1, 2012. The MCC Center for Economic Education is part of a nationwide network of university and community college-based centers which provide teacher training and curriculum development for America’s K-12 schools. The new Center at MCC is the sixth in the United States to be housed at a Community College. "The Center for Economic Education at Mesa Community College will help strengthen economic understanding and financial literacy throughout Arizona and by partnering with economic educators across the country we will empower teachers, students and community members to better understand the world through the economic way of thinking,” stated Greg Pratt, MCC Economics Faculty and Interim Director for the MCC Center for Economic Education. MCC’s Center for Economic Education will improve economic literacy of current and future citizens of the state by providing educational and training programs and materials for teachers of K-12 classes. The Center will conduct workshops, seminars, for-credit classes and other professional development opportunities for educators. In addition, the Center will act as a clearinghouse for the gathering and dissemination of economics based curriculum, lesson plans, activities and other resources that K-12 educators can easily implement into literature, math and science lessons already being taught. Programs such as the Arizona Council on Economic Education’s Stock Market Game will be supported by the Center. Trainings and workshops for educators (grades 4 – college) interested in using the Stock Market Game in their classroom as a tool for teaching personal financial and economic literacy will be provided. In the game, students have the opportunity to manage a virtual $100,000 portfolio over the course of the semester. Along the way they research, purchase, and sell stocks, mutual funds and bonds while learning the fundamentals of long-term saving and investing. Debbie Henney, Arizona Council on Economic Education Executive Director commented, “The new Center for Economic Education at MCC will provide quality training for teachers in the Phoenix-metro area that are tasked with teaching Arizona’s K-12 Economics Standards and the new economics course now required for high school graduation. This center will serve as a model that can be replicated to take advantage of the vast community college network in Arizona to reach educators across the state that have been historically underserved.”

On February 4, 2012, The MCC Center for Economic Education hosted the 2012 Arizona Society of Economic Teachers conference – Making Cents of the Centennial. This event showcased the new MCC Center and economic training for K-12 teachers. Jim Rounds with Elliotte D. Pollack and Company and Cynthia L. Course, with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco were the Keynote Speakers.

Photo: Debbie Henney, ACEE Executive Director and Rebecca Burns, Program Coordinator for the Arizona Council on Economic Education present
the second place award in the college level division of the stock market game to MCC student Kenneth Ashton and first place to MCC student Matthew Short.

Article by Angela Askey at aaskey@mesacc.edu.

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