What Can I Offer You?
Welcome! This site is dedicated to supporting educators like you in delivering impactful personal finance instruction. Whether you’re a high school teacher launching your first finance class, a university professor seeking engaging tools, or part of an organization promoting economic education, you’ll find valuable resources here. My goal is to share proven methods, practical resources, and engaging ideas gathered from experience to help you confidently teach essential financial skills.
Free Resources
Explore a collection of blog posts featuring free resources you can use immediately in your classroom. Find ideas for leveraging personal finance calculators, downloadable lesson plans, and insights on incorporating free stock market games into your teaching.
After School Programs
Discover strategies and resource recommendations specifically tailored for setting up and running engaging financial literacy programs in an after-school setting. This section addresses the unique challenges of these programs (like engagement and staffing) and offers solutions!
Teacher Training
Build your own investing knowledge with this free beginner’s course from Investing101.net. It combines 10 chapters of foundational investing concepts with a practice stock market simulator, ideal for educators wanting to strengthen their personal understanding of market fundamentals before teaching others. (Note: This focuses on personal learning, not pedagogical training).
Finance Labs
Explore PersonalFinanceLab, a comprehensive platform designed specifically for education. Discover their integrated budgeting and stock market games, extensive library of standards-aligned curriculum (personal finance, investing, economics, etc.), gamification features, and robust reporting tools built to support teachers and engage students in the classroom.