For more than 40 years, the Alpaugh Family Economics Center has trained teachers, developed classroom materials, and revolutionized economic and financial education for students from kindergarten through high school. We focus on teaching students the decision-making skills that lead to their own financial resiliency, and ultimately, robust communities.
- Have higher rates of savings
- Have higher credit scores
- Are more likely to have an emergency fund
- Have fewer loan defaults
- Are more responsible consumers
- Providing innovative resources such as the award-winning $martPath platform to teachers and parents across the country
- Focusing on experiential, direct-to-student programs such as StEP and Market Madness to teach children about spending, saving, entrepreneurship, and giving back
- Developing a ground-breaking series of videos featuring puppets and music to teach the youngest learners about economics and personal finance
- Continuing to add new, downloadable, free curriculum resources for teachers and families
The Center offers dozens of Professional Development workshops every year, both in person here in Greater Cincinnati, and online.Teachers earn CEUs for attendance, and may buy college credits as well.
“I would highly recommend the workshop to fellow teachers! The tour was very interesting from historical, economic, and geographic perspectives. The historian, Dan Hurley, was an outstanding speaker and tour guide. The UC Economic Center staff were professional and welcoming. The tour was a good length and covered a variety of sites. The bus and lunch were excellent. This PD exceeded my expectations!”
Teacher participant in our historical bus tour of Cincinnati with Dan Hurley
$martPath is our award-winning online financial program designed for students in Grades 1-8. $martPath provides standards-aligned lessons in a fun, engaging way. And we have puppet videos, too!
Thanks to a generous grant from the Charles H. Dater Foundation, we studied the current state of financial education in schools across Greater Cincinnati, then recruited master teachers to help us draw some conclusions.