b'FINANCE AGENCY YOUR MONEY IS A VOTETALKING ABOUT MONEY can be difficult because it illuminates complexities around privilege, race, geography, and family. We believe because we live withina shared system of finance, all of usregardless of ageshould understandour life-long agency to shape that system and the way it assigns value locally and globally through social, economic, and cultural capital. For our JK to 8th-grade5 5PILLARPILLAR students, studying finance means making Kiva loans and interviewing B Corpbusiness owners. It also means planning fundraisers, practicing Fair Trade -style playground negotiations, and starting a financial literacy podcast series. As part of a design challenge in a sixth-grade elective, students even created an original social capital currency called Hillbucks to assign value to the causes that matter most to us. My son came alive in the social entrepreneurship elective. It changedthe dynamics of our family dinners, our conversations to and from school, the way we eat and shop andperhaps most importantlyhow he sees himself as a learner and leader, both on and off campus. He teaches me something new every day.Parent of Hillbrook School Eighth GraderSUSTAINING THE CHANGEMAKER AGENCY REQUIRES TAKING STEPS to address the local and global effects of your actions. When we took 14 students to the Island School in Cape Eleuthera,Bahamas, we brought both individual and community agency to life by observing the impact of people on the planet. We learned the practices of sustainability: everything from aquaponics to green architecture to two-minute cold showers.We delved into the field of ocean preservation research, examining the impactof tourism and the best fishing practices for invasive species. Some studentswere so moved by their experience that they began projects of their own, likea social media movement to save our seas or a proposal for Disney World:BLUE, an experience focused on sustainability through play and imagination.'