How We Work
How our program works in schools
- Principals select students whose attendance and school performance need improvement and designate teachers from varying disciplines.
- Classes meet once a week during the school day.
- Given a scripted curriculum, teachers impart investment fundamentals that reinforce mathematics, reading and social studies skills.
- Teaching tools are workbooks, textbooks, research and quizzes on the dedicated webpage.
- Students record their weekly attendance and quarterly grades on the SIF website and check investments on personalized portfolio pages.
- Perfect weekly school attendance and improvements in mathematics and reading grades enables students to “earn” SIF dollars used to purchase publicly-traded company stocks.
- The potential earnings are $80 a year.
- Investments accumulate during three years. When ‘graduating’ from middle school, students continue tracking their portfolios on-line and can make stock trades once a year.
- When graduating from high school and turning eighteen, ownership of stock transfers to students’ names.
Student Earning Potential
| How Do I Earn Stock? | Total Possible Per Quarter | Total Possible Per Year |
| Perfect attendance including the SIF class earns $1 each week. | $8 to $10 (depending on the number of weeks) | $36 |
| Perfect attendance for an entire quarter, earns $1 bonus. | $1 | $4 |
| Improving your reading grade earns $2. | $2 | $8 |
| Improving your math grade earns $2. | $2 | $8 |
| Reading grade at A or A- earns $3 or $2 for a B+, B, or B-. | $3 | $12 |
| Math grade at A or A- earns $3 or $2 for a B+, B, or B-. | $3 | $12 |
| Total Possible Earnings = $80 | ||
Stock Selection
- Coca-Cola Company
- Electronic Arts
- Ford
- The Gap, Inc. new in 2017
- PetSmart
- Sirius Satellite Radio
- Sony Corporation
- Southwest Airlines new in 2017
- Time-Warner
- Under Armour new in 2017
- Walt Disney Company
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