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The Missouri
Council on Economic Education (MCEE) is a statewide network working to
promote economic literacy in Missouri citizens.
For over 30 years we have emphasized teacher training from
kindergarten through high school, sharing innovative materials and
teaching methods to enrich the education of Missouri’s youth.
The Stock Market Game™ and the Dollar$
& $ense Program are two statewide programs administered by the
Missouri Council office.
The MCEE
delivers programs through Centers for Economic Education located at the
University of Missouri campuses in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia,
and at Central Missouri State University (Warrensburg) and the Southwest
Missouri Center at Drury University in Springfield.
See the MCEE website at www.umkc.edu/mcee
for more information.
The MCEE is governed by Trustees including Co-Chair Kent King (Missouri Commissioner of Education), Chair Arthur Mallory (Retired Missouri Commissioner of Education), Secretary of State Matt Blunt, State Treasurer Nancy Farmer, President of the Missouri Bankers Association Max Cook, and University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor Richard Wallace.
Funding for the creation of this website came from the generosity of the Miller and Jeanette Nichols Foundation as a gift to the youth of the Kansas City School District and other participating children and teachers.
This website has been created by Project Manager Gayle Voyles, Director of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Economic Education and a team she has assembled. These people are described below.
Gayle
Voyles, M.S.
Ed in Curriculum and Instruction and M.A. in Economic Education, taught
students of several different grade levels for the Blue Springs School
District before accepting a position at UMKC’s Center for Economic
Education. She has taught
both graduate and undergraduate classes in economics, as well as designed
and conducted economic workshops for teachers throughout the state of
Missouri. She has served on a
variety of state committees throughout the development of the social
studies MAP. Gayle also
served as the Project Manager for the Missouri Council on Economic
Education’s “Show-Me” Economics publications:
K-4, 5-8, and 9-11.
Mickey
Ebert, has
taught elementary school in Blue Springs for 26 years.
She has taught economics for various universities and is an
Economic Advocate for UMKC’s Center for Economic Education.
Mickey has presented at conferences at all levels, written 10
funded grants, and is involved with a national social studies portfolio
project. As the Missouri
Council for Social Studies 2001 Elementary Outstanding Social Studies
Teacher, Mickey brings her expertise and enthusiasm to many online lessons
and webquests.
Ronnie Moppin, has taught
junior high/middle school in Blue Springs for 12 years and is an Economic
Advocate for UMKC's Center for Economic Education. He has served on the
Achievement Level Setting team for the 8th grade Social Studies MAP. He
has also scored the 8th grade Social Studies MAP. Ronnie is involved in
social studies curriculum alignment and developing middle level curriculum
guides for the Blue Springs School District.
Steve Brown, MS in Education/History, has taught American history as a Blue Springs middle school teacher for 8 years. Steve has done extensive work in the areas of the US Civil War and Holocaust studies including studying at the US Holocust Memorial Museum in Washington DC through the Belfer Foundation.
Ken Stewart,
has been a middle school social studies teacher for the past ten years.
He spent the first three years teaching in a small rural school in Teller,
Alaska, and the past seven years in the Kansas City, Missouri School District.
He is currently teaching at the Foreign Language Academy. His primary
role for the development of this web project has been facilitating the
alignment of the Webquest themes to the Kansas City Core Curriculum.
Nicolas Pologeorgis, PhD in Economics, PhD in
Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education, MBA in Finance, MA in
Economics, BA in Business Administration, Economics, Accounting and French
Literature, LUTCF. Dr. Pologeorgis is the
Associate Director for the Center for Economic Education at UMKC and he assesses and evaluates the Center’s activities, as well as the designs,
implements and coordinates
assessment programs for Center’s clients. He teaches
both graduate and undergraduate classes in economics and finance, and
conducts workshops for teachers throughout the state of Missouri, on how
to teach students so that they will be able to perform well on the economics
portion of the Social Studies MAP test. Mr. Pologeorgis is one of the
selected participants in Missouri’s DESE Social Studies Stimulus Review
and Scoring Guide Development Workshop for the MAP .
Patricia A.
Palmer, Ed.D. is a veteran educator of 28 years most recently serving
as Director of Operation Outreach for the UMKC Center for Economic
Education in northern Missouri. Teaching graduate courses and
workshops to teachers on how to integrate economics into their K-12
curriculum is her passion. As a curriculum specialist, it is
her mission to identify the needs of teachers and their students to match
curriculum and teaching strategies to help them succeed on the MAP.
Working with teachers in rural communities of north Missouri has been a
welcome challenge!
Eddie Burris
Avneet Mathur, M.S. is a graduate student with University of Missouri, Kansas City.