Economic Literacy Colorado

Our primary exempt purpose is to provide education programs and services for Colorado K-12 teachers and the community to assist in improving economic education and personal financial literacy for students in Colorado K-12 schools. We also make available to K-12 teachers and school districts a wide range of grade-appropriate economics and personal financial literacy PFL curriculum resources. During this fiscal year we delivered 43 economics and PFL teacher programs. More than 1,163 teachers and student teachers attended our professional development programs. We estimate that these teachers will reach about 100,000 students each year of their teaching career with an improved ability to teach economics and PFL in their K-12 classrooms. The total number of instructional hours delivered by our contract Ph.D. economics professors and mentor teachers was 7,703. 126 out of the 176 school districts in Colorado were served.

We also provide a stock market portfolio simulation program called the Stock Market Experience SME. The SME program is provided to teachers of Colorado students in grades 3-12. It is a comprehensive engaging real-world online investment simulation. Stock market simulation programs have been proven to improve student learning in PFL economics math and language arts. We operate several SME sessions each school year. This year 305 teachers made Stock Market Experience available to more than 12,811 students statewide.