UNO Center for Economic Education

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UNOCenter for Economic Education

• Co-directors James Dick, COE
• Kim Sosin,
  CBA
• Associate Director Mary Lynn Reiser,
  CBA
• Community Partners Linda Placzek,
  Conestoga School
• Angie
  Kelso, Wells Fargo Bank
• Jennifer
  Sand, Federal Reserve
• Presented to the Strategic Planning Advance
• 11/15/04

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Purpose and Mission

• To improve the economic literacy of current and
  future citizens
• To provide educational programs and materials for
  teachers.
• To help teachers teach the economic concepts
  needed by future citizens to become well-informed
  voters, wise consumers, and effective producers.

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Partner Federal Reserve Bank

• Provides support for
• High School Economics Awards
• Teacher Professional Development
• The Fed Challenge
• The Economics Challenge
• Midwest Economics Education Conference

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Partners Conestoga School

• Conestoga Adopt a School Partners Wells Fargo
  Bank, Federal Reserve Bank (Omaha), UNO Center
  for Economic Education
• Center worked with teachers to develop an
  elementary economics curricula
• First in-school bank with Wells Fargo
• Calendar contest with Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Winner of 2003 Leavey Freedoms Foundation
  National Award

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International activities

• Ukraine Council on Economic Education
• Hosted, with International Studies, visitors from
  Ukraine and Kazakhstan
• Crestridge International Magnet School
• International Teacher Exchange

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Ukrainian Teachers at Conestoga
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• http//ecedweb.unomaha.edu
• National repository of economic education
  materials for teachers
• Awards for most relevant material for teaching
  economics
• Heavily used (Aug/Sept averaged 17,000 hits per
  day)

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Recent Center Awards

• Recent Grants Kauffman Foundation, National
  Council of Economic Education, Buck Institute,
  Mellon Foundation, Foundation for Teaching
  Economics, Partners in Education (PIE)
• Alfred Beekhuis Award for Center Excellence, 2004
• Leadership Award, Mary Lynn Reiser, 2004
• Omaha Public Schools A Advocate Award, Mary Lynn
  Reiser, 2004
• Economic Education Research Award, Kim Sosin,
  2002
• Regents Kudos Award, Oct. 2004

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Thank you for your support!