Innovative Educators

Each month, we honor an educator who has found new and exciting ways to help children and adults gain financial literacy skills. They’re our Innovative Educators, and they come from all over the country, teaching throughout the grade levels and beyond.

We share their experience here to provide educators and students with good ideas for teaching and learning about money. Hopefully, you’ll find something inspirational in these stories that you can use in your own work.

And if you know of or are an innovative educator yourself, please submit a nomination form. We’re eager to speak with individuals who have found creative ways to teach the fundamental lessons of finance.

December 2011
Innovative Educators: Michael Morrow
Smyrna High School
Smyrna, TN

In Michael Morrow's financial literacy classes at Smyrna High in Tennessee, he challenges his students to establish a savings account. The juniors and seniors also are tasked with developing "savings campaigns" to educate fellow students on campus. Read more.

Brian Page Reading High School Reading, Ohio February, 2011	Robert Haley Cleveland Hill High School Cheektowaga, NY March, 2011	Dennis Dice NavPoint Institute for Financial Literacy Headquarters Murietta, CA April, 2011
Jessica Vang Boys & Girl Clubs of Collin County, McKinney Branch Allen, Texas June 2011	Veronica Dangerfield Brighter Beginnings Program Oakland, CA July 2011	Tonya Doughty Jupiter Elementary Palm Bay, FL August 2011
Dora Walker Liberators, Inc. Los Angeles, CA September 2011	Johnny Payne Lebanon High School Lebanon, IN October 2011	LeNora Weaver McLain High School Lakewood, CO November 2011