Center for Economic Education
The UMKC Center for Economic Education is primarily funded by The Cloud L. Cray Foundation and the Missouri Council on Economic Education with affiliation to the National Council for Economic Education.
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The UMKC Center for Economic Education is involved in a wide variety of activities to assist schools in promoting economic education in grades K-12. In addition to conducting research in the field of economic education, writing grant proposals for program funding, and designing and teaching economic courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, we also:
- Develop and maintain a Lending Library for economic education resources
- Design and conduct school building or district teacher in-service training workshops in economic education
- Design and develop K-12 economic education curricula
- Facilitate social studies curriculum mapping
- Provide consulting services with regard to appropriate institutional strategies and economic education resources for the K-12 grade levels
- Facilitate the development of school-business partnerships
If you are interested in any of these programs or would like to receive more information about what we do, who we are, or how we can help your K-12 programs in the area of economic education, please send us an email.
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Gayle Voyles, Director
816-235-2524
voylesg@umkc.edu
Gayle holds the position of Director for the Center for Economic Education and
has taught at various elementary grade levels. Her focus centers on promoting
professional development and curriculum writing. Currently, she teaches both
graduate and undergraduate classes in economics and conducts workshops for
teachers throughout the state of Missouri on how to teach students to they
perform well on the economics' portion of the Social Studies MAP test. She has
developed economic education curriculum materials for both the Blue Springs
School District and the Blue Springs School of Economics.
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Patty Palmer, Director, Operation Outreach
outpalmr@greenhills.net
Mary Barnhart, Administrative Assistant
816-235-2254
barnhartm@umkc.edu
Email: ceestaff@umkc.edu | Phone: (816) 235-2254 | Fax: (816) 235-5270
