NextGen PersonalFinance is a free blended-learning personal finance curriculum for teachers, to engage and empower students to make smart financial choices
The Center for Financial Capability (CFCI), a non-profit organization, believes all young people deserve a free, quality education to take control of their financial futures. Founder Tim Ranzetta spent years teaching personal finance in East Palo Alto, struggling to find quality material to engage his students, and decided to create a better solution.
CFCI proudly offers Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF), a free set of curated, blended learning lessons to engage students in thinking critically about personal finance and providing decision-making strategies to empower students to shape their financial futures.
For Teachers, Next Gen Personal Finance offers:
The flexibility to teach an entire unit or pull individual lessons to teach specific skills;
Prepared lesson guides, ready-to-use student activity packets created by experienced personal finance educators;
A true blended-learning curriculum;
Can be taught in any classroom, from a 1:1 laptop/tablet classroom to a classroom based in pencil and paper;
Engages students with a combination of self-directed work and group collaboration that require critical thinking and collaboration;
Built-in, Common Core-aligned assessments;
Comprehension questions;
and Performance Tasks that engage students in developing strategies the can immediately apply to their own personal finance decisions.
For Students, Next Gen Personal Finance offers:
Engaging content, blending a variety of articles, videos and activities;
Real-world personal finance simulations to prepare students for the decisions they will face in college and beyond;
and An opportunity to work in a self-driven environment where students are truly in control of shaping their own financial future.
The Center for Financial Capability (CFCI), a non-profit organization, believes all young people deserve a free, quality education to take control of their financial futures. We proudly offer Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF), a free set of curated, blended learning lessons to engage students in thinking critically about personal finance and providing decision-making strategies to empower students to shape their financial futures.
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