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Calling all Chicago Public School K-8 Librarians!

Dear CPS Librarian or School Designate:

The Department of Libraries and Information Services is again working with City Treasurer's office and Money Savvy Generation on a financial literacy project to be delivered to students during Money Smart Week, April 17-24, 2010. This program, one to two class sessions in length, is for all school children enrolled in K-8th grade schools including those enrolled in Special Education and E.S.L. programs. This program opportunity is being offered to all schools that currently have a librarian staffed in the library program or a designate; enrollment and participation is voluntary.

Note: The K-4 Initiative is now full. Please register only Grade 5-8 classrooms on the registration form.

Please click here to register for this initiative.

Registration is first come, first served, and quantities of materials are limited.

Note: On the registration site you will be asked for your area number, mail run and unit number. If you don't know each of these numbers for your particular school, please look up the information for your school in the CPS School Directory.

Program Description:

This year you will receive brand new Money Savvy Generation solutions for K - 8 students. If you participated last year, this is an additional opportunity to make a huge difference in your students' lives!

For 5th - 8th grade students:

Librarians will be supplied with a tool kit that includes two downloadable, fully scripted money lessons and activity sheets that will allow you to introduce students (and their parents/guardians) to the concepts of budgeting, saving, checking, wise use of credit and other forms of electronic money. During the month of April, librarians can easily teach these lessons during one or two library class periods.

To facilitate these lessons, each tool kit will include copies of a "Money Savvy Activity Guide" so that each student will have a copy to keep and take home to use - and a CardGuard with Purchase Tracker to reinforce the lessons taught about proper debit, credit and gift card use.