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Our Stock Is Rising

I spent the early years researching the topic. The goal was to teach them as I learned, and to stay one step ahead of my classes. I took them to see the experts at Key Bank and the Wright State University School of Business. As time went on, the experts came to us. The late Ellis Rowe (former VP, Mars, Inc.), and Theo Killion (former CEO, Zales) flew in from Jacksonville and Chicago respectively, just to share a few of their valuable hours for what they both found to be an invaluable experience.


This book is written by a teacher, for teachers. Unlike other books of its kind, this one’s not written by an expert in the field of investment financing. Quite frankly, I saw in this project, such a sense of urgency, that the need for it to be delivered by experts (whenever they became available), was outweighed by the need for it to be delivered in the here and now.


Our Stock Is Rising is a metaphor that speaks not just to the disenfranchised, but to all the little kids in all the neighborhoods outside New York’s famed Financial District. It says that we are not always too young. And that the things we are allowed to be challenged by in our youth, won’t be the things that deny us a place at the table, as adults.

Gregory A. Powell

Gregory A. Powell is a former A Better Chance (ABC) Scholar and graduate of The Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ. He is a retired, decorated U.S. Air Force Major and a 22-year veteran of teaching in Dayton Public Schools. In 2005, he was District Teacher of the Year, a state finalist in Ohio, and a Martha Holden Jennings Scholar. Mr. Powell is also a former Master Teacher with the Ohio Department of Education and former Senior STEM Fellow with the Dayton Regional STEM Center (DRSC). His “Compressed Air Vehicle” lesson plan gained national distribution on the DRSC website. He has published articles in Social Studies and the Young Learner in 2018 and 2021. Mr. Powell has also presented to national audiences, including; Symposium on Urban Teacher Education, Birmingham, AL (2011); Critical Questions in Education Conference, New Orleans, LA (2017); and Innovative Schools Summit, Atlanta, GA (2022). He holds a Master’s Degree from The Air Force Institute of Technology and certificates in teaching and educational supervision from the University of Dayton. Originally from Miami, FL, Mr. Powell now resides in Union, Ohio.

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