Financial Fridays: NGPF

From just one classroom in 2014, the NGPF curriculum now reach over 80% of U.S. high school students! That’s 58,000 educators and counting!

NGPF wants all students to build strong financial skills in school rather than “in the school of hard knocks.” NGPF equips educators with time-saving tools – curriculum, professional development, community, and grant support – to teach these life-changing skills with confidence.

• FREE Comprehensive Curriculum: NGPF offers 9-week, Semester & Year-longteacher-led Personal Finance Courses (Gr 9-12) in Google Docs and Nearpod formats. For younger learners, NGPF provides a 9-week Middle School Personal Finance Course. You can customize all lessons to meet the needs of your students and teaching style. See our newest MATH course in “What’s New” below!

• FREE Supplemental Resources: While personal finance is our “bread and butter,” educators of many subject areas take advantage of NGPF’s supplemental resources, including:

  • NGPF’s Arcade Games to simulate real-world money decisions with 8 million game plays annually! Check out the latest game in “What’s New” below!

  • FinCap Friday, a popular weekly current events activity with a Kahoot!, explainer video, and discussion prompts

  • Questions of the Day, daily discussion prompts about current events and hot topics in the world of money! 600+ to choose from!

  • NGPF’s Econ Collection to demystify tricky Econ concepts through personal finance activities

  • NGPF’s Math Collection to include math practice in your personal finance lessons

• FREE Teacher Professional Development: More than 12,000 educators have participated in NGPF PD which includes these four formats:

  • 10-hour Certification Courses that dive deep into specific content areas. Join teachers who have earned 7,000+ certifications and register for two new courses in “What’s New” below!

  • 1-hour Virtual PDs on content, pedagogy, resources, current events, and a weekly Speaker Series.

  • 1-hour On-Demand Modules in self-paced Nearpods on content, resources, current events, and personal finance basics.

  • Saturday Virtual Conferences to unite this awesome teacher community! Join the NGPF National Conference on April 30th. Registration coming soon.

• Community: Join our teachers-only facebook group, FinLit Fanatics! To collaborate with 6,000+ teachers on activity ideas, pedagogy, lesson-sharing and more. Join more than 7500 teachers who subscribe to the NGPF daily blog for classroom ideas, podcasts, new interactive resources, and more.

• Grant To Improve Access To Financial Education: Launch a new standalone personal finance elective of at least 60+ consecutive hrs, and your district earns a $1,000 grant per high school. Make personal finance a standalone one-semester local graduation requirement, and your district earns up to $10k per high school. Deadline Aug 31, 2022.

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