NationalEducatorConference2011activities

Optional Activities

Financial Planning Clinic

Thanks to Jump$tart Partner, the Certified Financial Board of Standards, Inc., we are once again offering you personalized financial planning sessions, tailored to your own situations, from highly qualified CFP professionals.

The Financial Planning Clinic is an optional opportunity for you to pose your specific financial questions to professional financial planners, who are volunteering their time and expertise to provide you with unbiased financial planning information. All financial planners participating in the Clinic hold the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification and are highly qualified to discuss your financial goals.

These private consultations are provided at absolutely no cost to you. Further, the volunteer CFP professionals are not allowed to sell products or services or solicit further business from you in any way. In other words, there are no strings attached!

If your spouse or domestic partner is in DC with you, he/she may participate in the consultation, even if not registered to attend the rest of the conference.

Only Two Steps to Participate

• Just indicate your interest in attending the clinic when you complete your conference registration. We will arrange a 20-minute appointment for you to meet privately with a CFP professional within the scheduled time period.

• Click here to complete the Personal Data Organizer and then print and bring it with you to your appointment. The Personal Data Organizer will prepare you for the types of questions the financial planner may ask. After you complete the three-page form, you'll be provided with a printer-friendly document of your responses.

(Please note, this information will not be

stored or saved.)

Personal & Family Finance Educator Certification Testing

Conducted by Jump$tart Partner, the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences, this new certification is part of AAFCS’s well-established Professional Assessment and Certification Program.

The Personal & Family Finance Educator Certification will measure professional competence to teach content consistent with the U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Education Core Competencies and the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education, published by the Jump$tart Coalition. In order to achieve certification, candidates must: hold a baccalaureate degree in any field, pass the national certification competency examination assuring others of a threshold level of knowledge based on the identified standards, and ascribe to the AAFCS Code of Ethics.

The three-hour test will be offered at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, November 4, prior to the Jump$tart National Educator Conference registration. Teachers interested in taking the certification test should indicate their interest when completing the conference registration. AAFCS will then contact you, directly, to register for the testing. Note that a separate fee, paid to AAFCS, will be required. Please direct questions about this certification to the AAFCS. More information here.

Private, After-Hours Tour of the U.S. Capitol
Arranged and Provided for Jump$tart Teachers by Capital City Events*

Friday, November 4, 2011
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Immediately preceding and following the Welcome Reception in the Kennedy Caucus Room
$56 per person

This private tour offers guests a unique, in-depth look at the U.S. Capitol. After a very special greeting, teachers will be led through the building by a U.S. Capitol Historical Society guide, whose commentary will not only provide a history of the building, but that of our nation.

Teachers will visit the Hall of Columns, the Brumidi Corridors, the restored Old Supreme Court Chamber, and the Crypt beneath the Rotunda, where historical exhibits are presented. The second floor holds the Chambers of the House of Representatives (in the south wing) and the Senate (in the north wing), as well as the offices of the Congressional leadership. Guests will also see other historic sights in the Capitol, including the Old Senate and Supreme Court Chambers and the magnificent Rotunda.

The 5 p.m. tour will begin at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. Capital City Events staff members will escort the group to the Capitol, where the tour will begin, and then escort the group to the reception at the Russell Senate Office Building. The 8 p.m. tour will begin at the Russell Senate Office Building; teachers will be escorted back to the Hyatt following the tour.

*This tour was developed by Capital City Events for participants in the Jump$tart National Educator Conference, but is not an official conference event and is optional. Interested participants must register directly with Capital City Events and pre-pay online. Proceeds from this tour help to support the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, which is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization and not an agency of the federal government. Jump$tart will not be able to assist you with registration for the tour onsite at the conference.