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Kansas
Celebrates 30 Years!
This year marks 30 successful years of using the Stock
Market Game in Kansas. Kansas was
one of the 1st states to adopt the Stock Market Game in 1977. The SMG Program was coordinated through our
KSU Center for Economic Education for many
years before moving it to the Kansas Council on Economic Education offices in
2000.
To kick off the 30th year we celebrated with
a Tribute Dinner in Topeka. We had a great time and enjoyed the company
of several special guests. Dorothy Soldan,
prior Stock Market Game Coordinator and KSU
Center director, had just moved back
from Maryland
and was able to join us. Many of you
got your start in the SMG with the help of Dorothy and we wouldn’t have such
a strong program without her dedication.
We are happy to have her back in Kansas! Lisa
Donnini was another of our very special guests. Lisa was the past KCEE President and she is
now Vice President of the Foundation for Investor Education, the organization
that administers The Stock Market Game Program and InvestWrite.
Several of our wonderful teachers were also on our
agenda along with a few past SMG students.
The event was a success thanks to these teachers and students!
- Susan
Raby, Jay Schidler Elementary - Topeka
- Mirla
Coleman, Norton
High School –
Norton
- Frances
Lucas, Bishop Ward High School
– Kansas City
Please look at our Tribute
Dinner Program online. Pictures
will be available online next week.
SMG Makes KC Star Headlines
 Mark Davis, Business Editor with the Kansas
City Star, wrote a wonderful article about the Stock Market Game Program in
Sunday’s newspaper. Mark has
experienced the SMG himself and after hearing about the 30th
birthday decided to help encourage schools to participate.
View Article
Online
New SMG Advisor’s Companion
You will find this new
resource in the Teacher
Support Center’s
purple section under Publications. The
purpose of the SMG Advisor’s Companion is to provide SMG Advisors with an
effective desk reference for understanding and navigating the SMG Program,
its online Teacher
Support Center,
and its online team trading portfolio.
It contains many great handouts so take a few minutes to look through
this new publication.
By the end of September the Stock Market Game online lessons
should be correlated to the Kansas Educational Standards in the following
areas:
- Business
- Economics
- Language
Arts
- Mathematics
- Social
Studies
- Technology
We are very excited to have this project so close to
completion. In fact, you will already find
the Math, Social Studies & Language Arts completed. These lessons have
been correlated to national standards but we think adding the state
correlations will be an additional benefit to teachers and also show
administrators added value of using the SMG.
SMG Sessions for 2007-2008
Ready to join the hundreds of other Kansas teachers using the SMG in their classroom? Register your teams online at http://www.stockmarketgame.org or
download to How to Register
Instructions in Adobe Reader format.
Click on the Pre-Registration tab and follow the directions. Once you have your IDs & Passwords in
hand you can begin planning. Not sure
about the SMG yet? Come to a FREE
workshop this year to find out more.
Conference calls are also available.
Follow this link for details.
Team fees for the upcoming school
year will remain at $10 per team.
Need funding ideas? Take a look
at the SMG Partnership Program or
call for assistance.
You may choose to participate in one
or more of the sessions:
Fall 2007
- FREE
PROMOTIONAL SESSION September 4 to September 21, 2007
(FOR TEACHERS ONLY - limited access to resources)
- September
10 to November 16, 2007
- September
24 to November 30, 2007
- October
8 to December 14, 2007
Spring 2008
- January
14 to March 20, 2008
- February
4 to April 11, 2008
- February
19 to April 25, 2008
The SMG is a semester long program but trading sessions
are 10 weeks in length. Access to the educational resources are available from the
time you register until the end of the semester. There is a free 3-week promo session at
the beginning of the Fall semester for teachers to try out the SMG. Promo session has Limited access to Teacher Support Center
resources.
Fall SMG Teacher Training
The SMG is so easy to start using now with the help of the new Teacher Support Center
and the Advisor’s Companion. We will
continue to offer a few in-person Teacher Workshops along with an option for
conference calls. Any 4th-12th grade Kansas
classroom teacher attending a FREE workshop this year will receive a credit
for 2 free teams, a $20 value, towards their next SMG registration. This is a great way to learn how to
navigate the SMG and then try it for free in your classroom.
Click here to register for a FREE workshop now,
email KCEE@wichita.edu
or call Angela at 316-978-5335.
Choose from one of the locations
below:
Hays – Tuesday, September 18, 2007 – REGISTER NOW
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm, FHSU, McCartney
Hall 1st Floor Computer Lab
Food & Drinks Provided
Graduate Credit Optional – FHSU with $80 scholarship for certified KS
teachers currently under contract.
Wichita
– Wednesday, September 19, 2007 – REGISTER NOW
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm, KCEE Office, 358 N Main,
3rd Floor
Food & Drinks Provided
Kansas City – Monday, September 24, 2007 – REGISTER NOW
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, American
Century Building,
4500 Main Street, Kansas City, MO
Food & Drinks Provided
Concordia – (Tentative) September 2007 – REGISTER NOW
Please register and you will be contacted with the final details.
Fredonia Area – (Tentative)
Sept/Oct 2007 – REGISTER NOW
Please register and you will be contacted with the final details
Dodge City
– (Tenatative)
Sept/Oct 2007 – REGISTER NOW
Please register and you will be contacted with the final details
Conference Calls –– REGISTER
NOW
Conference calls will offer a variety of times to meet your schedule. We will contact you to find a convenient
time for you.
More workshops will be scheduled in
December/January
Check the website for updates and online registration!
Minimum of 5 to hold class
Workshops focus on:
- Understanding SMG rules & restrictions
- Gaining a comfort level with the SMG website
& features
- Exploring the FREE SMG educational resources
- Discuss integrating the SMG across the
curriculum and
- Answering questions & sharing teaching
ideas
New or potential advisors will be off to a great start by attending one
of these workshops. Experienced SMG
advisors are also welcome to come see the new resources. All workshops are offered at no cost or
obligation to the participant. Snacks
& drinks provided. Workshop
attendance is not mandatory to use the SMG – you may contact Angela for
individual assistance in getting started with the SMG in your classroom.
Click here to register for
a FREE workshop now, or email KCEE@wichita.edu or call Angela
at 316-978-5335
Don’t forget to pre-register your class for the InvestWrite
Essay Competition. The Fall
competition will be open from October 10th to November 30th.
InvestWrite is a tool that enhances the The  Stock Market Game™ program by
providing your students with a way to demonstrate what they are learning in
the classroom and awards them for their hard work.
InvestWrite fosters:
- Achievement
in academic areas such as mathematics, language arts, social studies,
economics, and finance
- "Real
life” decision-making skills
- An
understanding of the need to save and invest
InvestWrite gives an
opportunity:
- To
incorporate The Stock Market Game program knowledge into your curriculum
- To
add writing/critical thinking to the program without extra planning time
- To
step aside from the daily school routine for students as well as for
teachers
- To
learn more about the stock market and investing
- To
enrich yours and your students’ Stock Market Game experience
- To
win great awards for everyone
- To
compete as individuals with other students at their grade level all over
the country
Each teacher using the SMG was allowed to submit five
entries to be considered. Independent,
volunteer judges drawn from industry, education and local communities then
chose winners from the final essays submitted by the teachers.
National Spring 2007 9-12th Grade Awards*
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1st place (1)
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2nd place (1)
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3rd place (1)
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Finalists (7)
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