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Financial Literacy | Work Readiness | Entrepreneurship
JA's K-12 digital programs from our home to yours.
WEEK 3
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JA THRIVE
readership increases by 362% in just
one
week!
Read how Junior Achievement of Central Florida is supporting at home learning this week!
Schools are closed for now, but students are stronger than ever...and so are you!
Welcome to our 3rd week of
JA THRIVE
delivered to you by
JA of Central Florida
(JACF). JACF has developed this weekly "virtual backpack" filled with resources to help Central Florida's K-12 students, their teachers and parents
THRIVE
at home while schools are closed.
Through the help of almost 1,000 volunteers, JACF serves nearly 30,000 K-12 students across Central Florida. We can't wait for our volunteers to join students again when schools reopen! Until then, our goal is to help adults find meaningful ways to keep
all
students
planning
for and
dreaming
about tomorrow...and worry less about what's happening today.
This
is how we "JA!"
Share
JA THRIVE
with anyone helping students while they learn from home! Keep your ideas/requests coming! A member of our JACF staff
can help walk you through any lessons and also hep you modify activities, so students are successful.
Email us at
programs@jacentralfl.org
for any help needed!
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Teacher? Parent? Volunteer?
Start BELOW and help your students
THRIVE
today!
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Okay, you can say it out loud. We won't tell anyone.
This "switch" to remote learning is
not
easy. The researching, the planning, the downloading, the uploading, the scanning, the virtual meetings....ugh the virtual meetings! Feeling overwhelmed? It's okay. That's why we're here to help you and your students
THRIVE
together
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JA USA is helping teachers and parents gain access to student lessons, materials and resources that can be guided with help from an adult or completed by a student independently.
Teachers!
You are working diligently to ensure students can be successful while working at home. You may be searching to incorporate lessons/activities that align to what you have already prepared and trying to make sure your student have ample, meaningful resources even when you can't be there.
Parents/Guardians!
You're new role has you balancing everything to make sure your child can mange through this new way of learning. You and your child might be in need of a "brain break," but you want it to be something fun and engaging that can impact your child's future without deviating too far from what their teacher has provided.
THRIVE
with these JA resources our JACF staff has selected for you this week to help you reduce the stress of sharing K-12 Distance Learning resources with your students and children. Also, check out these
10 Tips for At Home Digital Learning
to help parents develop a "system" that works well for your family!
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Making Sense of COVID-19: Healthy Conversations with Middle and High School Students
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Let's face it, teens watch more than Tik Tok videos and they
are
aware of the changing landscape around them even if they are socially distancing from home.
It's important to have healthy conversations with young people, so they don't just repeat hearsay, and they can use classroom learning to make connections with what is happening to our economy and how resources are being leveraged to help during and after this global pandemic.
Our follow up reading/discussion activity this week will help teens and adults discuss how ideas and resources can help improve our economy even further over the coming months. Download and share this week's handout:
JA's Making Sense: The Impact of COVID-19 on Business and Innovation.
This resource serves middle and high school students as a guide to how entrepreneurs and businesses are responding to COVID-19 and can be used to facilitate online discussions or even elicit written responses from a generation of young, intuitive thinkers ready for thoughtful conversations.
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She's Back for an Encore Performance! Our JA Kid Professor talks budgets!
Check out our JA Kid Professor as she tries to balance her very own "grocery" budget.
Click
here
to view her shopping trip and how she realizes shopping for a family isn't easy.
New BONUS K-2 Activities This Week:
Celebrate Financial Literacy Month through fun reading activities.. We've located two books that help students learn about managing money. Don't worry if you don't have them at home - we've found the audio-recordings your student/child can watch, listen to and enjoy and connected you to a list of discussion questions that go along with each book.
Click here for K-2 Bonus Financial Literacy Activities!
More of these next week.
JACF Weekly K-5 Selections for Teachers & Parents:
This week's lessons/activities have been organized with hyperlinks to all sessions and related videos. Easy for teachers to upload to your digital lesson plan books. Even easier for parents to download and share with your children today!
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MIDDLE 6-8
What Time is it? It's time to visit JA My Way™ !
Join JA My Way™ to get tips and tools to put your career on the express track. Take the
Personality Quiz
then visit My Career to find job matches. Explore buying a car and saving for college in My Money, create pro resumes at My Resume, or get tips to start a business at My Business. Students can create their own free accounts and track their resources and work for current and future use. The future is NOW with JA My Way™! Click
here
to start using JA My Way
™
online
today!
JACF Weekly 6-8 Selection for Teachers & Parents:
With an ever-changing economic climate, our
JA Economics for Success
program is perfect for students to learn more about how to build a successful economic future by choosing the right career and managing money…properly. In this modified format, students will be able to explore potential careers and expand their knowledge of personal finance, so they can visualize their economic futures and look forward to what lies ahead.
SPECIAL NOTE:
: JA "blended courses" provide opportunities for you to teach virtually and customize content to meet the needs of your middle grades students.
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Personal Budgeting for 9-12 graders through JA Finance Park Virtual Simulation
Budgeting for life's choices and curve balls can be difficult! Spend time doing just that in our JA Finance Park Virtual online simulation program (public version).
Af
ter registering to participate, students will be placed in an online world where they are given a fictional job, age, income, and education, and be tasked with balancing a personal budget and making life decisions.
Register here
to begin a simulated world where you, the student, is in charge of your finances and plan for expenses that await you!
JACF Weekly 9-12 Selection for Teachers & Parents:
All lessons have been organized with hyperlinks to sessions or main activity.. Easy for teachers to upload to your digital lesson plan book. Even easier for parents to download and share with your children today!
Two items
this week:
- My Work Values and Responsibilities - students will learn why soft skills and work ethics are important to employers.
- JA My Way™ - My Career, My Money, My Resume, My Business - high school students will visit this online resource center designed to help them explore, discover and learn more about their future options and help them prepare for the road ahead.
SPECIAL NOTE:
JA "blended courses" provide opportunities for you to teach virtually and customize content to meet the needs of your high school students.These are supplemental and semester-long programs you can select for students you support.
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Parent? Teacher? Have questions about any of the JA resources above? Need something you don't see?
A member from our JACF Programs team will be glad to assist you!
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MyCareerShines - Career Tools for Florida's Students
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Provided by the Florida Department of Education,
MyCareerShines
provides elementary, middle, high school and college students and the workforce with career exploration tools that will help benefit their financial health over time.
Used in our
JA Inspire
program, student accounts grow as students grow. Help learners at any age and at every stage of life, so they can plan for their futures and own their economic success!
Access Florida's career planning tools for different people in your life...maybe even you:
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JACF Virtual Career Speaker Series: STEM Experts
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JA of Central Florida has partnered with our friends at
The Florida High Tech Corridor
to give your class or family access to free, recorded videos that connect young people to career experts from STEM and other industries and from Florida's three Corridor universities (UCF, USF and UF).
Students in grades 6-12 can view recorded videos and learn from "virtual volunteers" about their careers in Video Game Design/Animation, Construction, CyberSecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation and so many more!
Also check out our
JA Virtual Volunteers
who led stemCONNECT classroom sessions for our JA Finance Park Virtual students in Orange and Osceola counties this past year!
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Need help staying "connected" at home?
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AT&T
is committed to being here to help you stay connected throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Details about options for current customers and eligible families can be found
here.
Use the link above and contact AT&T directly with any questions about how they can help your family stay connected at home.
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Comcast
announced it will be increasing speeds for the Internet Essentials program, and making the program free to new low-income customers for two months, amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Spectrum
is also offering special discounts to households affected by COVID-19.
Beginning Monday, March 16, they will offer free access to internet and WiFi for 60-days for new Pre-K to 12, college student and teacher households who don't currently have internet or WiFi service.
This discount will be applied as a credit for your first two months of internet services. Spectrum will waive any installation or pre-payment fees to help get you started. For more information, contact Spectrum at (855) 243-8892.
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NEXT WEEK IN JA THRIVE:
More JA Financial Literacy, Work Readiness and Entrepreneurship programs for K-12 distance learning!
We're here to help teachers and parents throughout Central Florida!
Let our team help you modify any JA activities for your students or children learning from home. Contact us at
programs@jacentralfl.org
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