Hello Friends of SAVE. We have been busy!
Introducing: Elizabeth Hansen: We are working with Elizabeth to develop a new Economics Program called “A Bridge to the Future” The first part in this series will be “How Money Works” Elizabeth is writing and testing the curriculum currently at a local Learning Program. Elizabeth also helped David Spring develop our Kids Biz Club Program. Below is an image of one of the lessons in our new economics course.
When completed our new program, “How Money Works” will be a series of 1–2-hour lessons that can be taught in trimesters, by our instructors or can be obtained from us in print form for a fee for others to teach.
We are also working with Jennifer Gaer, the volunteer Program Coordinator of Bellingham School District, to reestablish the Kids Biz Club program in two of their after-school programs this fall. Keep watching our newsletter for where we will be teaching this fall. We were pleased to hear that our program before Covid got “rave reviews” at Cordata, and they want us back. Jennifer will also help us reach out to the PTA associations in the district to expand our program in 2025. Jennifer has offered to help us introduce our new program “Money Works” to Principals and Curriculum advisors when it is ready for print.
We need your help!
We will need at least two new teachers this fall, one Business Teacher and one Tech Teacher. If you know someone who has a couple of afternoons a week starting this fall and would like to teach, send them our way. These will both be paid positions. If you know someone who just likes working with kids, we will also need two mentors to help with the classes.
We will be reestablishing both a programming and marketing committee this year. We are looking for 4-5 individuals for each committee from our community. Just drop us an email if you want to get involved. See Join our Team on our website for more information.
Introducing our New Board Officers:
Bill Knutzen President, David Spring Vice President, Kris Halterman, Secretary, Lorraine Newman, Treasurer
Website Remodel: Check out our website savenw.org. We have re-vamped and added new content. Hope you like our video interviews.
Last but not least -- please donate to help support us at savenw.org.
Below is an image of one of the pages from our How Money Works course:
