The Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston provides teacher workshops and
professional development opportunities in the content
areas of the Federal Reserve System, economics, economic
history and financial literacy. In some instances the
Boston Fed will initiate the content, in others it
may host and others it may serve as a specific content
resource.
November 17, 2009
"International Week" Workshop
June 29- July 1, 2009
Teacher Workshop on Globalization and International Economics
November 2-4, 2008
National AP Economics Teachers Conference 
October 15 & 27, November 19, 2008
Financing Your Future
June 30-July 2, 2008
Teacher Workshop on Globalization and International Economics
July 14-15, 2008
"Making-a-Job" Teacher Workshop
July 21-23, 2008
"Mini-Society" Teacher Workshop
January 14, 2008; February 2, 2008; February 11, 2008; May 6, 2008
Virtual Economics for K-12 Teachers
Professional Development Workshops
April 24 and 29, 2008
Wan2 Get Ready 4 Your Financial Future?A free personal finance workshop for teens (grades 7-12)
November
19, 2007
Economic Summit for High School Teachers of Economics and Personal Finance
The 2007 Economics Summit was held on Monday, November 19th at the St. Paul's School in Concord, NH. This event was open to secondary high school teachers across New England who teach economics or personal finance
July 5-7, 2006
Globalization and International Economics
FRB Boston, in
collaboration with the Dallas and New York Reserve
Banks provided a professional development
workshop on site for teachers on the topic of globalization
and international economics.
March 10, 2006
Talking About College
The Boston Fed provided a one day workshop introducing teachers to the value of utilizing the ten-unit "Let's Talk About College" curriculum that was created in collaboration with Citizen Schools. This curriculum is targeted at middle school students in order to nurture their interest in attending college while at the same providing the students with accurate and current information about selecting a college and financial planning to help pay for college. This curriculum is offered and taught as an "apprenticeship" in Citizen Schools as part of their after-school programming and is being taught in fourteen public schools as part of their "Gifted and Talented" program.
Download curriculum: Let's Talk About College - A Financial Perspective 
(includes 10 lesson plans for middle school students)
October
24, 2005
Economic Summit
The Boston
Fed initiated collaboration amongst the Connecticut
Council of Economic Education and Choate Rosemary Hall
to provide a one day conference that brought together
high level economics thinkers and policy makers with
50 high school teachers of economics from New England,
New York and New Jersey.
August
2005
Massachusetts Summer Content Institute
The Boston
Fed initiated collaboration amongst Salem State College,
Bridgewater State College, The Children's Museum
and the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies
to provide a ten-day teacher workshop for 20 elementary
teachers across the Commonwealth entitled, "Viewing
the People and Places of the Commonwealth Through
an Economic Perspective."
Rhode Island JumpStart Teacher
Conference
The Boston Fed provided two workshops
along with other providers for 100 teachers, most
of which came from Rhode Island. One presentation
was on Federal Reserve System physical and digital
resources for financial literacy. The other presentation
was on entrepreneurship and the Boston Bank-based
economic history experience called the New England
Economic Adventure.
