The Student Program is excited to welcome aboard high schools in four new states. The following states and counties are sponsored by local financial institutions dedicated to teaching students about the money side of life.

Alabama: Sponsored by Mutual Savings Credit Union

• Chilton
• Dallas
• Jefferson
• Shelby
• Tallapoosa

Illinois: Sponsored by 1st Mid-America Credit Union

• Jersey
• Madison
  

From the brass editorial desk:

Hi Everyone!

We have exciting news! We're switching things up with a brand new website, The Money Side of Life at moneysideoflife.com (MSOL). It's replacing the brass|BLOG and will have daily content about money's impact on our lives. Here's how we describe it:

Money isn’t the purpose for living, but it affects every aspect of our lives. It’s the connecting thread that weaves through everything from revolutions reshaping the Arab world to how much is left in our wallets for Friday’s happy hour.

This week we're featuring a special event on the brass blog: College Application Week. We'll share resources and tips all week long to help your students polish their college applications, including a giveaway from our editors. Send your students over to brassmagazine.com/blog to join in!

In addition to this event, the brass blog is an ongoing resource for students, featuring:

• Timely posts in an easy-to-digest size, published three times weekly
• Money-saving tips, college and career information, and need-to-know current event news

Teachers, would you like a fun writing activity for your students? Would they like the chance to win a pair of 'Sock it to Me' socks from our latest brass cover subject? If so, have them participate in the brass Sock Haiku Contest! The contest ends on September 30th, so have your students send their entries in as soon as possible.

Full contest rules and the address for submissions may be found HERE.

Good Luck!

Notice anything different about the Student Program website? We hope so! The brass team has been hard at work over the summer, and we are proud to introduce you to the completely redesigned Teacher Resource Center. Along with the new look, the site now features the following:

• New resources: to accompany each issue, we have added a vocabulary list and smaller, one-class activities. These join the project-based lesson plans, discussion questions and videos that we’ve always offered.

It’s been a busy spring for the brass|STUDENT PROGRAM. Here’s a recap:

March
Student Program Director of Education Laura Edmonston and Director of Communications Matt Neznanski joined Oregon representative Sara Gelser, to testify on behalf of the resolution she introduced to designate the month of April as Financial Literacy Month. House Concurrent Resolution 2 passed out of committee after a unanimous vote and was later adopted by the House.

April

SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Winter storms may still be headed your way, but spring is already in the air at brass. Our spring magazine issue is hot off the press!

Included in this issue:

• COVER STORY: Nowhere to Ride - Skateboarder & skate shop owner Andy Po discusses how he overcame setbacks, lack of funds and stereotypes to build a skate park for his community;
• Opportunity Talks - How to get the most out of a job fair;
• Reinvent Yourself - Paving the road after graduation;

Late night studying is not something students usually look forward to. Learning new material can be a daunting task, especially if it's just them and their textbook. Fortunately there's a slew of online study tools you could share with your students that may reduce their time needed to study. Here are a few favorites:

We've updated studentprogram.com with a new look and enhancements. We hope the changes will make the Student Program easier to understand for new teachers and sponsors and that we'll be able to keep you better informed about teaching resources at brass and elsewhere.

If you're a teacher and you haven't yet registered for the Teacher Resource Center, take a few minutes to sign up.

These changes are the first of several that we hope will make resources easier to find, use, and share. Let us know what you think as we move forward!

Oregon teachers! Look for brass at the Oregon Business Education Association Fall Conference in Silverton on Oct. 8.

We'll be there to sign up new teachers to access the Teacher Resource Center and talk with you about some new ideas we've got cooking. Also, we want to hear about how you're using brass in class and how we can make our products better.

Looking forward to seeing you there!