(openPR) - Olathe, KS – November 16, 2009 – I Support Learning, Inc. (ISL) announced that partner and developer, Mike Zisa, will be travelling to attend the Philadelphia Business Educators Association in order to present and demonstrate their new Personal Finance and Wealth Management educational curriculum, a joint venture between ISL and Zisa.

Zisa, a high school and college-level business education teacher, was a professional financial planner before his teaching career. Relying on this background, he helped develop and create ISL’s latest Career Simulation software. On Friday, November 20, from 7:00 to 4:00, he will be explaining and presenting this software to the attendees of this conference. Mike is also scheduled to present his experiences in the classroom with the Personal Finance and Wealth Management curricula at a 9:50 workshop entitled “Options Teaching Personal Finance”.

The curriculum, designed to teach the topics of personal finance in an engaging and relevant way, is currently being sold nationwide and internationally as both a personal finance course, and a tutorial on Microsoft Excel 2007, the main tool used in teaching the subject topics.

The course is quickly on pace to becomes the company’s best-selling course for the year, despite its relatively late release. CEO and Lead Developer, Steve Waddell, attributes the success to many states’ inclusionary mandates that personal finance is taught in the classroom.

The course places the student in the role of an investigator, going undercover to expose an embezzler within a company, using their knowledge of personal finance to expose the criminal.

Waddell explains about the software: “In business and technology education, and especially financial education, you have to show the material in a relevant and engaging manner in order to draw the digital native into this virtual internship. By making the learning story-centered and project-based, it attracts their attention and allows the teacher to become the facilitator of the learning.”

I Support Learning, Inc. is an educational curriculum designer specializing in career simulations that fulfill national Career Clusters, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) standards, with products in over 700 schools, colleges and vocational schools across the United States. Career Simulations include: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robotics, Cartoon Animation, Building Green, Green Industry, Horticulture, Music Video Production, Web Game Design, Video Game Design, Robots and Invention, and Personal Finance.

I Support Learning, Inc.
Corey Jackson
PO Box 398
Olathe Kansas 66061