54-Financial Education Public-Private Partnership (FEPPP) with Executive Director Tracy Godat

<p>•   A legislatively created program that back in around 2004, some legislators got together and said, We need to make sure that we are forcing the state superintendent to make financial literacy a priority because it's one of those small content areas that often don't get attention, like some of the higher stakes content areas like Mathematics and Science and ELA and so on. And so they created this based on the governor at the time, they had a task force that was going on, and it was a financial literacy taskforce, and combined with that, they created this public-private partnership that is very well-balanced with legislators and educators and our private sector partners as well. (2:05)</p><p>•   These professional development opportunities, the one you attended was what we consider our master's training, so we started out doing a few days of what we call the novice training, and what we realized really fast, several years ago, we've been doing these for about 11 years, and we realize teachers that are assigned some of these personal finance courses or courses that include financial literacy did not have the background or the training for it, so we actually have kind of a two-pronged approach where we bring in content experts and deliver content, increase teacher content knowledge. (6:10)</p><p>•   And if I can say that what we've learned from the pandemic, if we want to go there and talk about the pandemic, if you can imagine when we all first got sent home and the whole world shut down. I was in a position of feeling like, How can I stay relevant for this financial education conversation because one, on one side, we've got teachers that were trying to figure out this new platform of instruction, and they're stressed and parents are stressed, and they're at home, and they're trying to work and trying to do school, so how can I fight to say, This is still important, because we know now that it was even more important because a lot of people weren't financially prepared for that emergency . (10:47)</p><p>•  I w