PRESIDENT'S LETTER

Rich MacDonald, NAEE President

COMMITTEE REPORTS

COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

• NAEE Communications Committee Meeting Highlights (09/26/2001)
• The NAEE brochure will contain a diagram to clarify the difference between NAEE and NCEE.
• The Forum will be sent to members electronically, eliminating page limits.
• The Forum is to include the best ideas submitted by network members and those contained in the reaffiliation applications. 

• George Vredeveld and Harlan Day have been elected to the NAEE Executive Committee. 

• No burning issues relating to specific legal issues pertaining to running a council or center. 
• Patty Elder reported on the current national initiatives - spearheaded by NCEE - to secure funding for international and domestic programming. 
• The committee decided to submit a proposal for a presentation during the San Diego Conference on the importance of keeping abreast of legislative changes at the state level that can greatly affect councils - especially Standards, testing, and accountability issues. 

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EconomicsAmerica Network News

ARIZONA

The Arizona Council has moved!  Phone, FAX and email are all the same.  The new address is 8283 N. Hayden Rd., Suite 295, Scottsdale, AZ 85258. 

CALIFORNIA

 “We are proud to support Financial Fitness for Life in order to help elementary, middle and high school students better understand economics and finance,” said Rod Banks, business banking executive in California for Bank of America and board member of CCEE. Full Story. 

GEORGIA

The Georgia Council on Economic Education is the recipient of a prestigious Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for its "Georgia Economic History Project."  This project provides encouragement for students taking a required 8th grade course in Georgia Studies to spend some time studying their local economic history, including the entrepreneurs, businesses, industries, and periods in history that shaped their communities.  Executive Director David Martin will represent the Council staff in receiving the award in April.

INDIANA

The Indiana Council is excited about its new KidsEcon Posters project.  Complimentary sets of the new posters were distributed to each Council at the Chicago Conference.  The new web site that goes along with the posters is also attracting significant attention, and will attract even more as the poster project unfolds.  The feature that is especially appealing to teachers is the Literature Connection.  Teachers can print guided lessons on key poster concepts.  To view all the posters, see the new Kids Econ Posters web site: www.kidseconposters.com.  Click on “Poster Descriptions,” then run your cursor across each concept.  Presto, each poster appears! 

MARYLAND

The Maryland Council has been working hard to develop a new “look” and “sound” that will appeal more strongly to donors.  With the generous assistance of the marketing and graphics professionals of one of its strongest corporate supporters, the Council has created a new logo and adopted a tag line, Economic and Financial Education for Life.  Full Story.

MICHIGAN

The Michigan Council has established four new centers in the past year.  The new centers and their directors are as follows:  Saginaw Valley State University - Jim Leming; Ferris State University - Abdi Ferdowsi; University of Michigan-Dearborn - Brooks Hull; Walsh College - Joe Weglarz.  Allison Pirret is the council’s new Director of Communications, and Roger Niemeyer of Michigan State University is the new Professor Associate.

MISSOURI

The University of Missouri-St. Louis Center presented two new curriculum units in Chicago.  Since that time, more than a dozen workshops featuring one of these curricula, The Louisiana Expansion, have been planned around the country.  In workshops that have occurred, the evaluations have been stellar, emphasizing that this comprehensive unit is useful for teachers and engaging for students from fourth through eighth grades.  Take a look at the lesson descriptions for The Louisiana Expansion.  While you are at the center’s Web site, take a look at Labor Works for You, a curriculum for students in grades two through four, emphasizing human capital development for careers as plumbers, carpenters, and sheet metal workers.   This unit also features lessons on events in the history of organized labor. 

NEBRASKA

This fall the University of Nebraska Omaha Center embarked on a new partnership that it hopes will showcase elementary economic education best practices and curriculum to all the schools in the Omaha metro area. The UNO Center for Economic Education became an Adopt-a-School partner of Omaha's Conestoga Economics and Mathematics Magnet Academy School on September 13th.   Full Story.

NEW YORK

Dr. Peter Bell, Executive Director, and Director of the Westchester Center, is currently (during his summer vacations) involved with two global economics education projects in Pakistan and Thailand. These projects are intended to promote the need for economics in the social studies curricula in both countries.  Full Story.

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