REMINDER: GTA7 JA Finance Park 5/13

JA Finance Park is a middle school program that begins with in-class learning and culminates with a day-long visit to a realistic on-site simulation community where students are assigned a random life experience. Each student takes on a specific career, education, family size, credit score and student debt. They create and manage a monthly budget and are faced with making important financial decisions related to income, expenses, savings and credit through various life stages.

By the end of the JA Finance Park experience, students are able to:

• Create and manage a monthly budget.
• Navigate financial decisions through various life stages.
• Understand the financial consequences of life choices and decisions that impact long-term goals.
• Revisit their career goals to see if they will meet their needs for what they envision for their futures.

Not only is this field experience perfectly aligned with the end-of-year math curriculum, it is an immersive real-world math application experience. We are excited to bring students to this park where they will use math the way you and I do in our every day adult lives...to manage the financial requirements of day-to-day and month-to-month life! Students have already been working in their Junior Achievement workbooks focusing on personal financial planning and career exploration in preparation.

[This information is also accessible to students in the GTA7 Schoology course.]

Check with your child to be sure he/she turned in his/her slip; we are still missing about 15 as I write this. If needed, you may print one and have your child turn it in to Ms. Maly's tomorrow (Tuesday 5/12).

Only print, complete, sign, and return if needed.

• Bus groupings and student groupings for on site will be shared with students, posted in the GTA7 Schoology course, and shared with you by May 10th.
• Students should wear their GTA7 t-shirts. Otherwise, all clothing must be in alignment with the FBISD dress code.
• Students should bring a SACK LUNCH. They will eat on site.
• Students are required to conduct themselves respectfully and in a dignified manner at all times while on this trip.

In the GTA Update Newsletter I sent last week, the INCORRECT time was stated. The correct time for the program is beginning at 2:00 pm. Notification emails were sent only to the parents of students who are going to receive awards this morning (5/11/26).

Joseph Bernhart

Academy Coordinator

Gifted and Talented Academy

Quail Valley Middle School

joseph.bernhart@fortbendisd.gov

(281) 634-6687