Virginia Council on Economic Education

Teacher Education - Provide quality professional development workshops and institutes and classroom materials to K-12 teachers to enable them to more effectively teach their students the economics and personal finance knowledge and skills needed to be successful in our dynamic economy. As a result of the financial support we receive from our partners, this professional development is provided at no cost to the teachers or their schools. In FY23, VCEE provided 58 sessions ranging from one hour to 45 hours in length to 1,322 teachers. In addition, VCEE had 85,143 digital interactions in FY23 via its website, social media and digital newsletter.

Stock Market Game - A program for grades 4-12 which provides teachers with a real word simulation to use with their students to teach math, social studies, business, economics and language arts while also learning about the stock market and how to invest wisely. Student teams simulate investing 100,000 and track how their investments perform over the life of the program. In FY23, 3,074 teams representing 12,188 students across Virginia participated in the Stock Market Game. Workshops and webinars were held for teachers to assist them in integrating this program into their curriculum. VCEE also manages the statewide participation in InvestWrite, a writing competition around saving, investing and the stock market.

The Personal Finance Teacher Fellowship Program supports school divisions by increasing access to quality personal finance education. Educators are taught by VCEE, and this cohort of highly-qualified Personal Finance Teacher Fellows will then offer personal finance professional development and resources to other teachers in their school, school division, and region. In this way, the VCEE is able to deploy more personal finance resources where they will have a meaningful impact. This investment will help improve education opportunities and economic equity in Virginias underserved communities by ultimately improving the financial knowledge and skills of middle and high school students. In FY23, 13 teachers, representing 10 public school divisions, delivered personal finance professional development to 154 classroom teachers and awarded 308 hours of continuing education credit.