OUR FOCUS ON THE FUTURE Strengthening Career Pathways
FutureReadyNYC, a New York City Public Schools initiative, engages students in career-connected learning in high-wage and high-demand fields like technology, healthcare, business, and education. Through FutureReady, more than 135 schools across NYC provide paid work-based learning, industry credentials, and early college credits to foster students’ economic mobility.
Equipping Students for their Financial Futures
At New Visions, we believe that financial literacy is a prerequisite for long-term success. To make that belief a reality for NYC students, we partnered with FutureReadyNYC to support teachers as they implement new financial literacy curriculum across all 135 FutureReady schools. As a part of FutureReady, all participating students must complete at least 54 hours of financial literacy coursework. Recognizing that many educators found this new content daunting, we provided high-quality professional development and built a thriving professional learning community so teachers felt supported and skilled in facilitating complex topics like credit management and investing. The result is NYC students are gaining the sophisticated financial fluency they need to thrive in a modern economy.
Meeting with other financial literacy instructors and hearing about their work and how they got into this has been a real highlight. I’ve realized teaching financial literacy isn’t like teaching one of the core subjects. Everyone has taken their own journey to the role. There is so much diversity in backgrounds and experiences for the people here – I feel like we really represent New York City. It’s amazing to see and connect with.
DeCosta, NYC Educator
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