Past Board Chairman, Perry Wilson, was featured in Inviting Arkansas earlier this month. The Wilson family has a rich history of supporting economic literacy in Arkansas. The R. E. Lee Wilson Trust pledged a matching gift to the Economics Arkansas Foundation’s Legacy Campaign to build the endowment which provides sustainable operational support to Economics Arkansas.
Stephens Inc.
Economics Arkansas and Stephens Inc. are entering their third year of collaboration in bringing economic and entrepreneurship education to Arkansas classrooms.
With the help of James Wilcox, Director of the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Economic & Entrepreneurship Education, teachers will receive a more in-depth training on iNSPIRE lesson plans through a summer teacher institute and the development of video tutorials for classroom implementation for six of the twelve lesson plans. The iNSPIRE curriculum was developed to accompany the “This is Capitalism” video series produced by Stephens Inc.
We’ll also be introducing two new student entrepreneurship challenges to be sponsored by Stephens Inc. during the 2020-21 school year.
We're a Finalist!
Economics Arkansas was recently selected as a finalist for the Little Rock Regional Chamber’s Small Business Impact Awards in the Community Impact category. The Chamber will be hosting a watch party to announce the winners on Tuesday, July 21. More information about attending a watch party can be found on the Little Rock Chamber’s Facebook event page.
REAL is LIVE!
Our signature REAL Conference is going virtual in 2020! The two-day teacher professional development will take place online on July 22-23. Registration is free for all educators and a conference schedule can be found here. Thank you to Presenting Sponsor First Security Bank for making this event possible!
This year's keynote speakers include Debbie Henney, Curriculum Development Coordinator for the Foundation for Teaching Economics, and Little Rock's own Sarah Catherine Gutierrez, founder and CEO of Aptus Financial.
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