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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00


Teachers have the right to be financially comfortable without supplementing their incomes with years of substitute teaching and summer retail jobs. In this Personal Finance for Educators Guide, we offer valuable articles from HotChalk just for educators and links to web pages, books, and blogs that will help you save, invest, and meet your life and retirement goals.


HOTCHALK ARTICLES:
Stretching Your Teacher's Salary
What To Do After The Crash: 2009 and Beyond
How To Invest, What To Avoid
Teachers: Protect Yourself: Four Things to Do Now Financially
Surviving on a Teacher's Salary (Blog)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
General Saving and Investing Advice The Securities and Exchange Commission offers a saving and investing advice page Just for Teachers and a teacher care packagefilled with useful publications to help you make wise savings and investment decisions. General Money Advice The American Federation of Teachers publishes a compendium of advice about Your Money to increase knowledge and awareness of financial issues among educators. Repaying Student Loans The Department of Education provides two general Federal Student Aid Loan Guides on Repaying your Student Loans plus special pages on Loan Forgiveness for Public Service Employees and Cancellation and Deferring Student Loan Options for Teachers. Retirement Planning Retirement 101 for Teachers and Evaluating Teacher Retirement Options are two teacher retirement planning publications published by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Right Time to Review your Finances is now, said the United Federations of Teachers during “National Save for Retirement Week.” If you don’t know what a TDA and the TRS is, you should read that article and their other Pension Planning News. A 403(b) Saving for Retirement Calculator can be a teacher’s best retirement planning tool, especially when combined with a Social Security Benefits Calculator. Additionally, IPERS lists 20 interactive financial calculators to help teachers save and invest towards retirement including a great retirement benefits planner. Get the most recent information about 403(b) plans at 403BWise.com. Books on Financial Advice: Financial Tips for Teachers by Alan Weiss and Larry Strauss How to Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) on a Teacher’s Salary by Danny Kofke J.K. Lasser’s Winning With Your 403(b) by Pam Horowitz, J.K. Lasser and Company A Lesson Plan in Retirement: The Complete Guide to Retirement for Teachers, Professors, and State Retirement Participants by James H. Bishopp The Complete Teacher’s Guide to Retirement Wealth by Vincent Tate Teachers Today: A Guide to Surviving Creatively by Mary Zabolio McGrath Financial Wellness for Teachers by Robert Sudaley Tax Tips For Teachers The brief Tax Deductions for Teachers & All-Educators is just one of many Finance Articles posted at TheApple.com. Tax tips for teachers can also be found in IRS Topic 458 – the Educator Expense Deduction. Tax Benefits for Work Related Education and Education-Related Adjustments are two other tax topics for teachers available from the IRS. Money Blogs If you prefer your financial advice from peers, here is a selection of financial blogs written by educators: A 24-year-old high school teacher writes TeacHERfinance while working to get her financial house in order. She believes that “wealth has nothing to do with income.” TheFrugalTeacher is written by a high school English teacher who knows how to save a buck (and a pound). The Teacher Created Tips Blog offers 20 great ways for teachers to save money. Money Saving Tips and Free Stuff for the Classroom TeacherVision invites you to explore Money Saving Tips on classroom supplies, field trips, and professional development and learn Ways to Cut Back on the amount of supplies you buy. TheApple.com lists 50 ways Teachers can Save Money and 10 ways to Stretch a Teachers Salary among their many Finance Articles for teachers. EHow lists seven places for teachers to Save and Make Money on the side as an editor, online teacher, author, or by selling their work to other teachers at TeachersPayTeachers.com. Want discounts on more than just school supplies? MyEducationDi$count.com features a large directory of major companies that offer education discounts on nearly everything you buy online. Specifically, Marilyn J. Brackney suggests her ideas for obtaining Free Art Supplies in your community at TeachersNet and the Money Saving Secrets of Music Teachers are shared at SBOMagazine.com. Finally, click here for additional money saving tips and 50 additional ways that we can all save money.

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Budgeting Money Tips and a Personal Finance Book
written by Michael Kastler, January 25, 2011

Hi -

I wanted to provide two resources from my own budgeting money tips blog that teachers can benefit from.

1. Our Personal Finance book at http://www.budgetingmoneytips....ance-book/ that teaches you how to get a GRASP of your finances with 5 Easy Steps

2. Our Budgeting Money Tips blog (http://www.budgetingmoneytips.com)that provides great ways to budget money and manage your personal finances

Feel free to add these resources under your Additional Resources section.

If we can be of assistance, please let us know.

Michael

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Personal finance
written by Nancyth, May 03, 2010

The ICEE is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to increasing economic literacy in Indiana. Its mission is to prepare students to become active citizens and productive member of our economy by providing them with the ability to make sound economic decisions. http://www.prime-targeting.com

The ICEE provides several resources for teachers, including Classroom Mini-Economy, Playdough Economics and the Indiana Stock Market Game. The ICEE also hosts regular professional development workshops for teachers.

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