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Virginia Council on Economic Education

Our mission is simple: to provide Virginia’s K-12 students with the economic knowledge and financial skills needed to thrive in our dynamic economy.

Important for Students to learn real-world financial skills

• Better informed decision makers and consumers
• Prudent savers and thoughtful investors
• Reasoned voters and informed citizens

Join on of our many workshops to see our plans in action. https://vcee.org/teacher-workshops/

A message from our VCEE President:

“Financial education is a great equalizer.  By learning to invest in their own human capital and live within their means, every student can become a financially successful adult.  Here in Virginia, we are fortunate that all students have access to good, quality financial education.” – Daniel R. Mortensen, CEO and President, Virginia Council on Economic Education

Our mission is simple: to provide Virginia’s K-12 students with the economic knowledge and financial skills needed to thrive in our dynamic economy.

Our Vision: A Virginia in which every citizen is economically and financially literate.Advocate/resource for:

• Required high school course in economics and personal finance
• Inclusion of key economic concepts at each grade level K-12
• Teachers, school divisions, local and state governments

Learn more about VCEE: https://vcee.org/

Program Spotlight: Life After High School

“We sit in class learning about measuring tangents and what happened in 400 BC, but we skip the lessons that will help us be successful with our money today.” – Brandon Copeland, NFL Linebacker & Professor

Life After High School: Navigating Education, Career and Debt Resource Packet. This FREE resource will assist teachers in helping students make informed decisions about:

• setting goals and making choices, decision-making models to weigh costs & benefits and tradeoffs
• investing in yourself
• choosing a post-graduation path: college, another education avenue or career
• choosing a college and a major
• paying for higher education – loans, grants and scholarships – what to consider and how to apply

Download the Life After High School Resource Packet today! https://vcee.org/high-school/life-after-high-school/

Happy School Library Month!

April has so many amazing things going on and School Library Month is one of them! School Library Month is the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) celebration of school librarians and school libraries. Celebrate School Library Month by joining our Reading Makes Cents program. Reading Makes Cents is a financial literacy reading program, available to K-5 students and librarians across the state of Virginia.

Here’s how it works:

• Complete your application for three free books with library binding courtesy of VCEE partner Virginia529.
• Download free lesson plans, activities and discussion questions to use with your students.
• Encourage your students to read other titles from our curated Reading Challenge list.

Prizes include:

• $500 worth of financial literacy books for your school library
• $529 college savings accounts for your students
• Recognition for your hard work

JOIN TODAY: https://vcee.org/elementary-school/reading-makes-cents/