The World Economic Forum reports financial literacy among U.S. adults hovering at 50% (TIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index).

A recent Pew Research Center report shows that TK-12 schools finish behind family, friends, the internet, media, and colleges on the list of top learning sources for students to learn about personal finance (2023 Pew Research Center).

Integrating financial literacy into schools is essential to prepare students for life after high school graduation!

Fifth-grade teachers, Ashley Fisher and Aly Ryan from Troth Street Elementary School in Jurupa Unified School District participated in the pilot program in early 2025. The pilot program revealed that students showed a 76.6% gain on financial literary knowledge from pre-test to post-test.

“I was interested in the program because our curriculum doesn’t focus very much on finances. Even something as simple as money is not really a focus."

"When we started, there were definitely a lot of confused looks like, ‘Why are we doing this?’ But, that was only because they're not used to learning about money and they're not used to learning about financial topic. A lot of them are really excited about it. They were excited to have something different.”

- Ashley Fisher

“They were learning about things that we didn’t really learn until high school, or beyond,” Aly said. “Since our district is already using Footsteps2Brilliance, we’ve already been interacting with that program, so it was a super smooth transition to using the Financial Literacy program.”

- Aly Ryan

Districts, teachers, families, and community members within Riverside County, please contact Dr. Emily Devor who will help establish your rostering or individual account to get you started with the Financial Literacy App:

Dr. Emily Devor
Administrator
edevor@rcoe.us

Those outside of Riverside County, please see the Footsteps2Brillance Financial Literacy web page for details.