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Wentworth Institute of Technology
This is Katie from Wentworth Institute of Technology. Katie joined me after the conference and before I head back to Australia tonight,...
Apr 12, 20181 min read
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Financial Education Conference Day 3
The highlight for me of Day 3 of the Annual Conference on Financial Literacy has been the session on rigging Monopoly. Doug Young's...
Apr 12, 20181 min read
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Financial Education Conference Day 2
Day 2 of the Annual Conference on Financial Education commenced with Chase and Howard sharing their case study of collaboration between...
Apr 12, 20181 min read
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Financial Education Conference Day 1
Fantastic first day at the Annual Conference on Financial Education. Thanks to Rachel for inviting me. Jeanette Bennett and Barbara...
Apr 10, 20181 min read
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Financial Fitness
These lovely people are Ron and Carol, who kindly brought me my own copy of the financial fitness times. We spent hours today comparing...
Apr 9, 20181 min read
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EBO
Marie-Claude and Mario shared with me an impressive digital and paper collection of resources covering 16 topics of finance for 16-25...
Apr 7, 20181 min read
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Causeway
Causeway is a unique not for profit, as financial literacy was interwoven with other community work, including employment preparation for...
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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AFOA
AFOA have produced financial literacy education programs that are specifically written for Canadian Aboriginal students. There are 3...
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Chartered Professional Accountants Canada
Carol-Anne and Anne from CPA Canada ran some workshops on budgeting and saving at Canterbury Arts high school. The students were really...
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Penny Drops Trivia Night
Penny Drops has opened a new chapter at Carleton University, and they held a financial literacy trivia night for other University...
Apr 6, 20182 min read
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Bank of Canada Museum
The team at the Bank of Canada's Museum are amazing. Picture What a spot, and it's free! I was able to explore the economic lives of...
Apr 5, 20182 min read
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Jane Rooney and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
Jane and Julie spent time with me discussing their Global Money Week (which is actually Financial Literacy Month and occurs in November)...
Apr 4, 20182 min read
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Royal Canadian Mint
A tour of the Mint was not scheduled by FCAC, but it was open on Easter Monday so I could not resist a look through. They actually make...
Apr 3, 20181 min read
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Welcome to Ottawa
Julie, Don and their family shared an delicious Easter meal with me, and showed me the sights of Ottawa, including the Hogsback Falls,...
Apr 3, 20181 min read
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Bank of Italy
Thank you to Magda, Angela, Marilisa, and Rita from the Bank of Italy for their time and instruction. After meeting Magda, I was taken to...
Mar 29, 20181 min read
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Feduf
It was fantastic to meet the lovely Valentina Panna from Feduf, and her boss Giovanna, They were very generous with their time, and...
Mar 28, 20181 min read
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Called into the Principal's Office?
It was lovely to see my Principal, Jo Gray, and partner Peter at a little restaurant off the Trevi Fountain. There are no official...
Mar 28, 20181 min read
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Professor Giulio Piccirilli
I visited Prof. Piccirilli because of his role as one of the researchers who published "On the Anatomy of Financial Literacy in Italy"....
Mar 28, 20181 min read
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IES Manuel de Falla
Laura shared the depth of financial literacy taught in her elective Economics classes. I was very impressed with the results for her...
Mar 23, 20181 min read
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Fun Finance
Lena from Fun Finance brought along Patrice and Monica. They have applied for an EU grant to create a collaborative course between Spain,...
Mar 23, 20181 min read
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