Grade 6-8, 9-12, Higher Education
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On-Demand Webinar

Utilizing Inspiring Texts to Center Women’s Voices Around Wealth

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Diana Isern
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Objective

Teachers will be able to:

  • Identify the need for women to be represented financial conversations.
  • Analyze how inspiring texts written by diverse women in financial spaces can empower our students (and us!)
  • Explore ways to discuss the texts through thoughtful questions and protocols in the classroom.
  • Brainstorm ways to implement women-centered texts and discussions in their own classrooms.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Budgeting, Entrepreneurs, Financial Investments, Income, Money, Saving

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Description

This webinar will explore the potential of engaging texts written by diverse women to inspire our students about wealth creation, management, and financial literacy. I will use Nearpod to engage our educators in activities that share:

  1. Specific curated texts and excerpts that captivate our students
  2. Tangible ways to build classroom cultures of both reading and discussion
  3. Discussion ideas protocols and EdTech to use post-reading
  4. We will finish the session by brainstorming ways we can incorporate women-centered financial texts in our classrooms.

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