New Facebook Page / 2010 Financial Literacy Award
I'm combining up this week's blog post. First, well... we won the 2010 EIFLE Financial Literacy Curricula Award! We'll have more information for you about the award in a few weeks – the awards will be officially presented on October 6 in Boston. We're also announcing our new, teacher-oriented Facebook page! We invite you to participate in this new experiment:
Getting the Most Out of Banzai's Assessments
We've posted a new topic on the Facebook discussion board about "Getting the Most Out of Banzai's Assessments". We've offered our findings, and some of our ideas. Click here to read the discussion and join in on the conversation. We'd love your feedback.
Banzai Is Growing
As we conclude Banzai's fourth semester, available for free to teachers and students, we'd like to share with you a picture of Banzai's nationwide growth. The program, on average, is growing at the rate of 10% each month! Banzai is now found in over 1,300 schools in all fifty states.
EIFLE Financial Literacy Awards
We're looking for a little of your help to nominate Banzai for the EIFLE Financial Literacy awards. We're doing our best to make the program work for you, for free. Your recognition and the support of others makes that possible.
Running Balances
It's a small addition, but it has big results. We've provided you with the Scenario Overview for Life Scenarios, but many of you asked for a way to follow along as your students worked, checking their balances as they work. So we added the ability to view your students' running balances in the Teacher's Assistant.
Shocking Facts About Your Students
Pretests from students around the country using Banzai are pouring in. We've been anxious to discover what your students knew, and didn't know, about adult finance before they used Banzai's Life Scenarios – and the results are fascinating! Let me share some of our findings:
Assess your students' knowledge with Banzai
Yesterday we launched Banzai's new "Assessment" tab! You now have the ability to administer a pretest as well as a posttest to each of your students.
Curriculum Alignment for VA, UT, and IA
Fantastic news! Well, at least there's good news for the following states: Virginia, Utah, and Iowa. We've gone through the effort to align your individual states' curriculum with Banzai's Life Scenarios. As you consider which SOLs you'll be covering with Banzai, simply scan your state's curriculum document and see which Life Scenarios apply.
Curriculum Alignment
Here's a little exciting news for you...we've begun the initiative of offering state-specific curriculum alignment for Banzai. This month, we've released Banzai's Content Outline, which will help you align Banzai generally to your individual class, however, watch out for your state-specific alignment guides in the coming months. In March we'll be releasing guides for Virginia, Utah, and Iowa.
Life Scenarios are on way!
With the generous support of non-profit institutions in your communities, we've shipped thousands of Life Scenarios to teachers across the country! Once again, it was your feedback that helped us see the need for printed materials in the classroom.
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