About

The Ohio Centers for Economic Education and the Ohio Council on Economic Education have a long history of providing educational opportunities for teachers and youth. We are directly involved in the educational training of thousands of teachers annually, improving their working knowledge of the economy, entrepreneurship, personal finance topics, and business practices. Services include teacher training and professional development programs, assisting in curriculum development, and sharing instructional models that permit economics to be the framework for improving student achievement across many subjects. Content includes the core classroom curriculum as well as critical thinking, problem solving and mathematical skill development. The Stock Market Challenge has proven to be an effective tool for reinforcing academic content standards across a number of content areas and an important resource for building financial literacy.

Over the years, the Centers have built a strong network with other organizations. We have established excellent working relationships with public and private, rural and urban school districts, the Ohio Department of Education, the Federal Reserve Bank, Ohio’s Office of the Treasury, and Career Education Centers throughout Ohio. We value their resources and partnership on important educational programs.

Please join us for a training session to help get you up to speed. We have two in-person programs scheduled and are finalizing details to hold a web-based session as well.

Training:
Join us for a web-based teacher training program on one of the following dates:
Monday, September 21st from 4-5PM
Saturday, September 26th from 9-10AM
Tuesday, September 29th from 7-8PM

To register for teacher training, contact Linda Spencer at LSpence1{at}ashland.edu or 1.800.882.1548, ext. 5685. Once you register, you and your students will be able to practice buying and selling investments and watch the market in action. The practice accounts will be zeroed out right before the challenge begins on October 5th.

Watch our website for details: www.ashland.edu/econedcenters.

Ashland University Centers for Economic Education and Financial Literacy

Serving Ashland, Ashtabula, Coshocton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Geauga, Holmes, Huron, Knox, Lake, Licking, Lorain, Madison, Marion, Medina, Morrow, Richland, Union, Wayne and Wyandot counties. Team fees are $5.00/team. For schools in Delaware, Frankiln and Licking County we are pleased to announce the first 10 teams/teacher will be free! Awards: Prize money is awarded to the Top 3 teams in our service area for both the elementary/middle and high school divisions. Checks will be made payable to the school. In addition, the class associated with each winning team will receive a pizza party (maximum value $75.00) and Ashland’s award winning chocolate chip cookies!

Teams in grades 4-12 will also compete for a trophy and statewide prize of $250.00.
For more information visit http://www.ashland.edu/econedcenters or contact Linda Spencer at 216.831.7791 or LSpence1{at}ashland.edu.