April is Financial Literacy Month, and it’s a great time to help improve financial literacy for everyone, especially our youth. With our ever changing financial system, it is even more important that students have the opportunity to learn about personal finances, and how the financial system works. Integrating financial topics into your classroom is important. Financial literacy is not something that should be taught in a single course. No matter what grade or content area there are many opportunities to teach students how to be financially proficient.
Through the entire month of April, organizations throughout the nation conduct an assortment of activities and execute initiatives designed to enhance financial literacy, particularly among our country’s youth, and also encourage financial well-being for many individuals. Originally, NEFE turned Financial Literacy Day to the Jump$tart Coalition to promote one of its network of domestic partners and country coalitions. Jump$tart Coalition in 2000 started promoting April as Financial Literacy for Youth Month and afterwards, as only Financial Literacy Month. April is occasionally known as National Financial Capability Month, but whatever the tag, the attempt to increase consciousness regarding the importance of financial literacy and the requirement for successful financial education is a cooperative mission and a shared objective. 
Originally, Financial Literacy Month advocates hoped it would ignite national, state, and local authorities, in addition to colleges, nonprofit organizations, companies, and people, to celebrate the month with financial literacy programs and actions. While no U.S. president has signed a statement officially declared the month, the House and Senate have completely supported National Financial Literacy Month through joint settlements. Through the years, Financial Literacy Month has also played a vital part in the national plan for financial literacy, not just in the United States but in other nations too. By devoting a month to financial literacy, policymakers acknowledged its significance before allowing financial disasters that cost people, families, communities, and nations when financial understanding is lacking.
The month is an outstanding opportunity to examine and update your own financial smarts. Whether you are just beginning or have been making your self knowledgeable for quite a while, it is never too late to find out about saving and enhancing your financial outlook. Creating a foundation and constructing financial understanding is the basis for a brighter future. National Financial Literacy Month places the significance of learning about financing as well as the tools to find out about them directly from the classroom, also.
Regardless of the era of our kids, placing the know-how and tools at their hands provides them the capability to make wise decisions today and in the foreseeable future. Invite your pupils to take part in a financial literacy program. Take the time to educate your kids more about financial responsibility and search resources and tools that will assist you direct them through the pitfalls. Stop by MoneyInstructor.com to learn more and utilize #FinancialLiteracyMonth and #MoneyInstructor to discuss on social networking. We encourage everyone to promote financial education in this month and throughout the year.
