The National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) offers the award-winning High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP), a free and flexible curriculum that has been proven to change students’ knowledge, actions and self-confidence about managing their money.
Money & Me is a hands-on experience that teaches teenagers the basics of money and how to make it work for them. The program covers budgeting, credit advantages and pitfalls, savings and checking accounts, how to save for a big purchase and investing for the future.
The brass|Student Program provides high schools with access to brass|Magazine, a personal finance publication written by young adults that delivers relevant content for classroom discussions and activities. The program also includes online resource centers for teachers and students, and the Credit Unions for College scholarship database.

LifeSmarts…the Ultimate Consumer Challenge is a game show style competition for teenagers designed to better prepare them as responsible consumers in today’s dynamic marketplace. Questions cover personal finance, consumer rights and responsibilities, health and safety, technology and the environment.

Biz Kid$ is a fun, 30-minute PBS television series for kids about making and managing money. It highlights young entrepreneurs who have turned hobbies into successful businesses, raised funds for good causes and much more.

The Kid’s Cash Kit & Caboodle includes practical, hands-on tools to teach children and their families the basics of money management using the concepts of saving, spending and sharing.

Who Are You? Identity Thieves Really Want to Know! is an educational program that utilizes marketing materials, train-the-trainer workshops and instructive sessions to help credit unions and community organizations inform their members about the dangers of identity theft.

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brass | TEACHER RESOURCE CENTER

What is it?

brassThe brass|TEACHER RESOURCE CENTER is an area for teachers to create a community of their own as they assist high school students with financial literacy. The resource center provides online classroom lessons and activities that are motivating, fun, challenging, and correlated with the articles in brass|MAGAZINE. This interactive resource presents lessons, teaching tools, and strategies that are student-centered and designed to help high school students understand important financial literacy concepts.

The Teacher Resource Center includes a forum, a list of frequently asked questions, and editorial calendars to help plan and organize curriculum. The editorial calendar lists the title, category, page number and synopsis of each brass article, as well as the corresponding academic standards.

Teachers are encouraged to participate by contributing and sharing their lessons and activities with one another. By registering, teachers have complete access to content and can contribute resources for classroom use. The lessons, teaching tools, and strategies can be integrated with two other great financial education programs—the NEFE® High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP) (link to NYCUF HSFPP main page) and the LifeSmarts program (link to NYCUF LifeSmarts main page). Take a close look at these two programs!

 

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