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SPP wins Emmy Award for Talkin’ Money

2015_Talkin_Money_EmmyAwardThe National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded Steve Procko Productions an Emmy Award in the Educational Programming category for its Talkin’ Money Financial Literacy Educational Video program.

SPP was nominated in two categories, for Educational Programming and for Steve Procko as the editor of the series.

Talkin’ Money is an educational video series that helps teach financial literacy to millennials. Distribution of first season’s episodes to high school and college-aged young adults throughout the United States and  Canada will be provided through two separate distributors: Learn360 and SAFARI Montage.

Learn360 serves more than 25 million students in over 25,000 schools across the United States and Canada.

SAFARI Montage provides K–12 school districts with a fully integrated Digital Learning Platform, including a Learning Object Repository, Video Streaming Library, and IPTV & Live Media Streaming, designed to handle video efficiently. SAFARI Montage’s core solutions are presently being used successfully in over 600 U.S. school districts comprising 11,000 schools.

When polled, the vast majority of adults will tell you that they were never taught the thing they needed to know about money when they were in high school, and, they wished they had the knowledge to be financially literate at a young age.

Talkin’ Money maintains a website at http://www.talkinmoney.org

 

SPP Enters Into National Distribution Agreement for Talkin’ Money

TalkMonBillboard08Steve Procko Productions has entered into two national distribution agreements for Talkin’ Money the financial literacy video series it is currently producing.

The distribution of first season’s episodes to high school and college-aged young adults throughout the United States and  Canada will be provided through two separate distributors: Learn360 and SAFARI Montage.

Learn360 serves more than 25 million students in over 25,000 schools across the United States and Canada.

SAFARI Montage provides K–12 school districts with a fully integrated Digital Learning Platform, including a Learning Object Repository, Video Streaming Library, and IPTV & Live Media Streaming, designed to handle video efficiently. SAFARI Montage’s core solutions are presently being used successfully in over 600 U.S. school districts comprising 11,000 schools.

TALKIN-MONEY03-FrameGrabs06Talkin’ Money is targeted to millennials, teaching the tenants of financial literacy. Each episode presents crucial personal finance topics, correlated to National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education, in familiar every day ways, to help give millennials the knowledge and skills to manage their personal finances.

These are the standards that every high school graduate should know. Ask yourself – What did you know about money when you graduated from high school? The producers of Talkin’ Money feel that learning about money shouldn’t make you feel fried!