Workshops

Overview

Workshops
Content and creativity to help you teach economics and personal finance

The Georgia Council on Economic Education offers workshops that provide K-12 teachers economics and personal finance content and creative ways to teach it. For most non-virtual workshops, there are no registration fees, lesson materials are included, lunch is provided, and substitute reimbursement is offered. 

We use Zoom as our virtual workshop platform. To get the most out of your virtual professional learning experience, please refer to our GCEE Technology Guide for Virtual Programs.

All virtual workshops listed here are available to all Georgia K-12 educators, but registration priority is given to specific school system teachers when indicated in the workshop descriptions.

To see an example of a Georgia Council workshop and its impact on teachers, check out this video.

To access previously recorded virtual workshops, click here.  NOTE:  Not all GCEE workshops are recorded.

Click the link below for the master list of Fall 2021 workshops ( will update 9/8/2021).

Workshop Grades 9–12

Something from Nothing: A Lesson in Cryptocurrency (VIRTUAL)
Grades 9-12
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What is cryptocurrency? How does it get value? Why does it seem like everyone is talking about? Why does it need to be mined? You can help your students answer these questions and others by running this simple simulation with them. Join GCEE for a demo of the simulation and some background to get you started.

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 9-12

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Workshop Grades K–5 Grades 6–8 Grades 9–12

Stock Market Game Workshop (Virtual and In-Person Options)
Grades 4-12
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This workshop helps teachers learn how to help their students play the Stock Market Game and, more importantly, learn from the stock market. In the 10-week web-based stock trading simulation, students apply research and math skills, practice group decision making and analyze cause-and-effect relationships.  Participants in this workshop are expected to play the game this semester.  New AND veteran teachers are encouraged to attend to learn about new rule changes and new resources!   

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 4-12

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Workshop Grades 6–8

International Economics for Grades 6 and 7 (IN-PERSON)
Grades 6-7
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This workshop is designed to help 6th and 7th grade teachers engage students in the economic concepts found in both the 6th and 7th grade Georgia Standards of Excellence.  A portion of the workshop will also be dedicated to helping teachers find data to apply these concepts to the history, geography, and government standards found within the courses. A fully charged laptop or tablet is encouraged.

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 6 and 7

Materials, lunch, and substitute reimbursement provided

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Workshop Grades 9–12

Econ Express and High School Economics (IN-PERSON)
Grades 9-12
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Econ Express is a new comprehensive online resource from GCEE and GPB featuring interactive material covering the entire span a basic economics course. While Econ Express is readily available, this workshop provides insight as to how to make the most of the site as well as providing some new lessons and activities that incorporate parts of Econ Express and other new resources. 

Materials, lunch, and substitute reimbursement provided

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 9-12

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Workshop Grades 9–12

Real World Econ…with Betsey Stevenson
Grades 9-12
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
7pm

Every decision is an economic decision. Join us on October 6th as we celebrate Economic Education Month with noted economist, Dr. Betsey Stevenson, who will share with us how economics permeates each day of our life, often in unexpected ways. This virtual presentation will help you discover economics in the real world and learn how every decision we make is an economic one.

Betsey Stevenson is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. She is a National Bureau of Economic Research faculty research associate, a visiting associate professor of economic s at the University of Sydney, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and serves on the American Economic Association executive committee. Stevenson served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers where she advised President Obama on social policy, labor market, and trade issues . She has also held positions at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania’ s Wharton School.

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(Registration is processed by the University of West Georgia Center for Economic Education and Financial Literacy)

Workshop Grades K–5

Economics and the Civil Rights Movement for Grade 5 (IN-PERSON – Suwanee)
Grade 5
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
8:30a.m.-3:30p.m.

This workshop focuses on the economics behind the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s, particularly the Ten Demands of the March on Washington in 1963. Two picture books are provided to teachers along with all lessons that are demonstrated at the workshop. Time will be provided to prepare lesson materials for immediate classroom use. There is no registration fee for this workshop substitute reimbursement is available, and lunch is provided.Audience: Teachers, Grade 5

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Workshop Grades K–5

Using Picture Books to Teach the Grades K-2 Economics GSE (VIRTUAL)
Grades K-2
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

This workshop uses two unique children’s books to help kindergarten through second grade teachers incorporate effective literacy strategies into creative and engaging content-integrated lessons. The books are provided to teachers along with all lessons demonstrated at the workshop. There is no registration fee for this workshop.

Audience:  Teachers , Grades K-2

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Workshop Grades K–5

An Evening with Deborah Hopkinson, Author of Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights
Grades 3-5
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
7pm

As part of our National Economic Education Month celebration, we are thrilled to have the award-winning author, Deborah Hopkinson, join us to discuss her book, Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights. Her in-person and virtual visits help bring history and economic concepts to life. This event is co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta who is providing a copy of the book to any teacher from the Atlanta Federal Reserve District who attends.

Deborah Hopkinson is the author of more than 50 books for young readers including picture books, middle grade fiction, and nonfiction. At schools and conferences she helps bring history and research alive. Her work is well-suited for STEM connections.

New 2020  titles include MINDFUL DAY, a picture book from Sounds True, and middle grade nonfiction, WE HAD TO BE BRAVE: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport. Deborah’s recent books include D-DAY:The World War II Invasion that Changed History, Carter Reads the Newspaper, illustrated by Don Tate, and How I Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London. Courage &  Defiance, Stories of Spies, Saboteurs and Survivors in WWII Denmark, won a 2017 Oregon Book Award, and Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, was a Robert F. Sibert Award honor book and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist. 

Deborah’s picture books include Ordinary Extraordinary Jane Austen, Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book and Apples to Oregon. Follow the Moon Home won the Green Earth Book Award. Deborah received a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts and an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She lives near Portland, OR with her family and a menagerie of pets. 

Audience: Teachers, Grades 3-5

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Workshop Grades K–5

Teaching Decision Making in the K–2 Classroom
Grades K-2
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
7:00 pm EST

In this one-hour virtual professional development program learn about two classroom resources you can use right away to teach K–2 students about decision making. Teach students about opportunity cost, scarcity, and the decision-making process using active- and collaborative learning methods. Presented by Dr. Andrew Hill, economic education officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Angie Battle, Program Manager for GCEE, the resources shared in this session meet state and national standards in economics and social studies.

Audience: Teachers, Grades K-2

This workshop is provided virtually via the Zoom platform.

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Workshop Grades K–5 Grades 9–12 Grades 6–8

Assessing Student Knowledge in Economics (IN-PERSON – Suwanee)
Grades 4-12
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
8:30am-3:30pm

A key element of teaching economics is understanding what students know and can do with the content.  This workshop features segments about writing effective test items, designing rubrics that mirror the standards, and delivering meaningful feedback as well as other important assessment practices.  The workshop focuses on the Economics standards at each grade level. Teachers analyze, evaluate, and create assessments in the workshop that can be used immediately in their classroom.  There is no registration fee for this workshop, instructional materials are provided, substitute reimbursement is available, and lunch is provided.

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 4-12

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Workshop Grades K–5

Using Picture Books to Teach the Grades K-2 Economics GSE (IN-PERSON – Savannah)
Grades K-2
Friday, December 3, 2021
8:30am-3:30pm

This workshop uses four unique children’s books to help kindergarten through second grade teachers incorporate effective literacy strategies into creative and engaging content-integrated lessons. The books are provided to teachers along with all lessons demonstrated at the workshop. Time will be provided to prepare lesson materials for immediate classroom use. There is no registration fee for this workshop, substitute reimbursement is available, and lunch is provided.

Audience:  Teachers , Grades K-2

Workshop Grades 9–12

AP Micro – Select Topics with Martha Rush
Grades 9-12
Monday, September 27th, 2021
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Martha Rush will lead this session providing tips for preparing your students for success on this year’s AP Microeconomics Exam. Martha has years of experience teaching AP Microeconomics and serving as a reader and consultant with the CollegeBoard.    

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 9-12

This workshop is offered virtually through the Zoom platform.

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