We Should Have Been Taught This In High School with Thom Gibson Transformative Principal 329

May 3, 2020

Thom Gibson is a middle school math and robotics teacher and high school YouTube teacher in Austin, Texas.

• Budgeting, saving and spending
• How we should teach kids about money.
• Rafe Esquith - Teach like your hair’s on fire.
• Are you still using classroom economy?
• Moved away from paper money to all digital
• Automate a lot of things with it.
• Classroom jobs.
• Beginning of year is full of prep work.
• Jobs that free up your time as the teacher.
• Auctioneer takes a letter to local businesses.
• Virtual bank for the kids’ money. paygrade.io
• Forcing kids to do jobs.
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