Executive Committee

2016 VCEE Board of Directors

Board Members
Virginia Council on
Chair
A. Eric Kauders, Jr.
Managing Director/Regional Trust Executive, U.S.Trust
Chair-Elect
Neil Amin, Chief Executive Officer, Shamin Hotels
Ray L. Barnes, Jr., Regional President, BB&T
L. James Borges, Executive Vice President, Guilford Company
J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., President-retired
Economic Education
Philip A. Brooks Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Principal, McNeil Street Stephanne Strickler Byrd, Board of Directors
Secretary/Treasurer Shenandoah Valley Economic Education
E.G. Miller John M. Carter, Director of Compliance & General Counsel
Exec. Director, Risk Insurance Center-retired Wauford Group
VCU School of Business William A. Casey, Senior Vice President, Captial One Bank
Executive Committee Members William S. Cohen, Senior VP, Private Client Advisor
Kartik B. Athreya U.S.Trust Mid-Atlantic Region
Executive Vice President and Research Director Christopher B. Colburn, Director*
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond ODU Center for Economic Education
Kenneth C. Blaisdell Daniel F. Drummond, Director of Communications
Principal & President, Blaisdell Consult CFP Board of Standards
John Culbertson Roger L. Frost, Senior Partner-retired, Goodman & Company
Director, Advisory Insurance Strategy Practice, KPMG Wendell B. Fuller, President & CEO. Fuller Wealth Advisors, Inc.
Susan F. Dewey Suzanne M. Gallagher, Director-retired
Exec. Director, Virginia Housing Development Authority VCU Center for Economic Education
J. Curtis Hall+ Bradley H. Gunter, President, Investment Management of VA
Professor Emeritus, VCU School of Business Olin V. Hyde, Entrepreneur-retired
Jeffrey R. Leopold Glen Kelley, Regional President, Wells Fargo
Associate Director, Career Development Center
Darden School of Business, UVA Hugh D. Keogh, President, Emeritus, retired
Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Lynne Mallory-Winter
Christopher V. Lucy, Managing Dir, Financial Services, Accenture
Co-Owner/Managing Director, Edgewater Asset Management
Stephanie R. Peters Robert C. Maddux, Vice President-retired, Benjamin Moore and Co.
President & CEO, Virginia Society of CPAs A. Fletcher Mangum, President, Mangum Enterprises
S. Buford Scott Robert Martin, Director of Wealth Management, Union Bank & Trust
Chairman of the Board, BB& T Scott & Stringfellow Shawn P. McLaughlin, President & CEO
Barry L. Thomas McLaughlin Ryder Investments
Director, Reg. Services-VA/TN-retired, American Electric Power Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr., Vice President, McGuireWoods Consulting
Bruce T. Whitehurst James E. Scanlon, CEO, Jims Local Market
President and CEO, Virginia Bankers Association Rob Shinn, Partner & Owner, Capital Results
* ex officio + emeritus Christopher Shockley, President & CEO, Virginia Credit Union, Inc.
Brenda L. Skidmore, Senior Vice President, SunTrust
Dr. Steven R. Staples,* Superintendent of Public Instruction
Virginia Department of Education
Jane G. Watkins, President-retired, Virginia Credit Union, Inc.
Winston Weaver, Jr., President, Rockingham Construction Co.
Patricia I. Wright, Superintendent of Public Instruction-retired, VDOE

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2016 Economic Educator Awards Program

December 9, 2016

 Awards Program 2016 VCEE Economic Educator Award Winners
hosted by The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
K-12 LESSON OR UNIT
First Place
Welcome
Vickie Mills & Larry Collins, Altavista Combined School, Campbell County
The Economic and Environmental Effect of a Natural Disaster In this unit, students designed a model community impacted by a volcanic
A. Eric Kauders, Jr. eruption. They created a risk reduction plan, developed possible positive and negative impacts on surrounding areas, and gave advice to citizens.
Chair, VCEE Board of Directors
Economic topics included the multiplier effect, factors causing change in supply and demand, and the role that price plays in changing conditions.
Managing Director/Regional Trust Executive, U.S. Trust
Second Place
Kartik Athreya
Executive Vice President and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Callie Randolph & Marta Frederick, Skyline Middle School, Harrisonburg City
Homemade vs Store-Bought Crepes As part of a middle school Family Consumer Science Exploratory class, this lesson allowed students to
~ Luncheon ~ investigate ways to comparison shop while saving money. Students focused on cost comparisons, price per unit, and determining the least price
when comparing prices - all useful techniques in life-long decision-making.

Introductions Third Place

Daniel R. Mortensen Lisa Long & Walt Williamson, Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg City
VCEE Executive Director The Blue Streak Food Company To earn needed classroom funds, students with significant cognitive disabilities in a Daily Living class opened a
company to make and sell meals to teachers. They chose recipes, planned grocery lists, took orders, shopped, cooked and delivered meals. Economic
2016 Economic Educator Awards concepts included learning that people work to earn money to buy the things they want, people save money for the future to purchase goods and
Outstanding Economic Educator of the Year services, and people have to make choices (opportunity cost).

Sarah Hopkins Finley VCEE INSTITUTE GRADUATE

VCEE Director of Programs
Winner

Christine Pedersen, Varina High School, Henrico County

Closing
Give Adam Smith a High Five! This lesson correlated each of the five concepts in Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations to the four fingers
and thumb on an invisible hand. As a means to understand the meaning of a free market with people operating for their own self-interest,
students then chose one ingredient from chocolate chip cookies and traced back all the things people did (by personal choice and without a central
commanding body) to create the ingredient.
VCEE Affiliated University Centers for
About VCEE
Economic Education The Virginia Council on Economic Education (VCEE)
MINI-GRANT AWARDS
Christopher Newport University partners with teachers to provide Virginias K-12 students with First Place
George Mason University the economic knowledge and financial skills needed to thrive in
Sondra Colvin & Emily Hartman, South River Elementary School, Rockingham County
James Madison University our dynamic economy. Classroom resources and professional
development for teachers are delivered through statewide South River Breakfast Cart 4th and 5th grade Special Education classes created a breakfast cart business: preparing items, creating advertising,
Lynchburg College
affiliated university-based Centers for Economic Education. determining pricing, and counting profits. Students also completed EconEdLink.org lessons on goods & services and producers & consumers.
Old Dominion University
VCEE provides hands-on student programs such as Governors
University of Mary Washington Second Place
Challenge in Economics and Personal Finance, Mini-Economy,
University of Virginias College at Wise Rhonda Lowe Taylor, Achilles Elementary School, Gloucester County
Stock Market Game,TM and Reading Makes Cent$. These programs
Virginia Commonwealth University offer students innovative educational experiences that build and Model Classroom Economy 5th grade classes took part in a classroom economy, with classroom jobs, rent paid for desks, fees for rule-breaking, and
Virginia Tech reinforce economic and financial learning, strengthen critical thinking
rewards for excellent work and acts of kindness. As one student wrote, ...if you work hard and do good work you will be successful. But if you make
skills and increase students ability to make informed decisions.
Virginia Council on Economic Education bad choices you will lose money.
301 West Main Street, Box 844000, Richmond, VA 23284-4000 VCEE has been a driving force behind getting economics and
personal finance into Virginias K-12 classrooms, including
Phone: 804.828.1627 2016 ECONOMIC EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
Connect with us online: www.VCEE.org, the required full-credit high school Economics and Personal
on Facebook at VCEE and on twitter @_VCEE Finance course. Partnering with the Virginia Department of Anne Barrow
Education, Board of Education and local school divisions, VCEE Teacher, Boonsboro Elementary School, Bedford County
is a true public-private partnership, leveraging the collective As an elementary Gifted Resource teacher, Barrow has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Mini-Economy program and the catalyst to make it
intelligence, resources and vibrant spirit of state government, local a part of all Bedford elementary gifted programs. For the last seven years, her students have also participated in The Stock Market Game.TM She
school divisions, universities, business leaders and teachers. has attended several teacher training programs to enhance her ability to guide her students to a deeper understanding of the stock market.