Big Read Thank You!
May 11, 2017

Photo courtesy of Abby Beyerl
Pictured (left to right): David Mancl, Director of DFI's Office of Financial Literacy; Pam Yoder, School District of Belleville District Administrator; Secretary Jay Risch, Department of Financial Institutions; Julie Porto, Vice President of the Belleville Board of Education; William Wilcox, Chair of the Governor's Council on Financial Literacy; and Tammy Kielbasa, Belleville Elementary/Intermediate School Principal and Director of Student Services.
A special thank you goes out to the partners of the School District of Belleville who sponsored the "Big Read" on April 27, 2017, as part of Money Smart Week at Belleville Elementary.
Students in 4K, kindergarten and first grade received lessons on how to be "smart with money." Mrs. Pam Yoder, District Administrator, was the celebrity reader of the book chosen by the Financial Literacy Awareness Committee of the Governor's Council on Financial Literacy. Each grade received a follow-up lesson back in the classroom created and presented by Mr. Erik Farrar's high school business educati...
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