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The Buzzwords of Financial Literacy: Notes from a Music Teacher to His Students (and their Parents)
The Buzzwords of Financial Literacy: Notes from a Music Teacher to His Students (and their Parents) in Bloomington, MN
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A private music instructor's primary task is to teach students to play an instrument or sing. A secondary mission, for those who choose to accept it, is to offer guidance that will prepare students for some of life's other challenges. Whether young musicians choose music as a profession or go down a different road, the financial realities of life in the 21st century are not to be ignored. And yet, students are too often not sufficiently exposed to the concepts of money, loans, and investing before entering the working world.
Star Wars-creator George Lucas once commented in a documentary how he hoped his trilogy of trilogies would prompt Generation X-ers to start thinking broadly about spirituality, because he sensed a lack of it. Attempting to jump-start similar thinking on a more temporal topic, Russ Henning turned his Covid-19 Lockdown Lemons into lemonade by preparing The Buzzwords of Financial Literacy, originally intending it as a supplement to the Consumer Education curriculum taught in Illinois high schools.
With nearly half a century of experience teaching instrumental music, and four decades of managing his own family's money, Russ Henning covers the basics of personal finance with a minimum of unnecessary jargon. He presents the material here just as he would in an informal conversation, with plenty of down-to-earth explanations, quotations, and Bad Dad Jokes.
Proud Indiana University grad Russ Henning has been the Horn Instructor at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois since 2007, where he takes perpetual guff from local University of Illinois alumni. He earned his MBA at Tampa College (Florida) in 1989 while he was employed with Nielsen Media Research. After returning to Illinois, he tested software and was the Market Research Manager at Follett Software Company before joining Karnes Music Company as a School Service Representative. The financial panic of 2007-2008 presented him with the opportunity to teach French Horn and Trumpet full-time, and he has made grades 5 through 12 his specialty.
Star Wars-creator George Lucas once commented in a documentary how he hoped his trilogy of trilogies would prompt Generation X-ers to start thinking broadly about spirituality, because he sensed a lack of it. Attempting to jump-start similar thinking on a more temporal topic, Russ Henning turned his Covid-19 Lockdown Lemons into lemonade by preparing The Buzzwords of Financial Literacy, originally intending it as a supplement to the Consumer Education curriculum taught in Illinois high schools.
With nearly half a century of experience teaching instrumental music, and four decades of managing his own family's money, Russ Henning covers the basics of personal finance with a minimum of unnecessary jargon. He presents the material here just as he would in an informal conversation, with plenty of down-to-earth explanations, quotations, and Bad Dad Jokes.
Proud Indiana University grad Russ Henning has been the Horn Instructor at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois since 2007, where he takes perpetual guff from local University of Illinois alumni. He earned his MBA at Tampa College (Florida) in 1989 while he was employed with Nielsen Media Research. After returning to Illinois, he tested software and was the Market Research Manager at Follett Software Company before joining Karnes Music Company as a School Service Representative. The financial panic of 2007-2008 presented him with the opportunity to teach French Horn and Trumpet full-time, and he has made grades 5 through 12 his specialty.
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