Andrea Ferrero is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Pockets Change, a nonprofit that provides curriculum workshops and professional development to build financial literacy and resilience through Hip Hop pedagogy.
If you’re not sure what that means, we dive into all of that and more in this episode, including the difficulties involved in teaching finances in school, understanding different personalities and their relationship to both learning and money, and where you can get started including this in your schools.
We unbox:
How Pockets Change connects the worlds of Hip Hop and financial literacy
The struggles of getting financial literacy into school curriculum
Making the learner central to the learning process
Getting financial literacy into the education system
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