I found this nice surprise in my email this morning.

From Brent Gostomski, Business and Computer Science Instructional Leader at Stevens Point Area Senior High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin:

A little background on our school. We teach approximately 600 students a year in personal finance. It is a requirement to graduate. We have multiple different types of settings, face-to-face, blended/hybrid and pure online. We are currently re-working our curriculum and we have found that many of the resources fit well into all 3 different settings we offer. Students find the lessons engaging and we love that we can pick and choose what we want.

I work in the data crunch activities as often as I can. One of our focuses is to improve math achievement and many students struggle analyzing data. It has been helpful to use these activities in different units.

Overall, our team thinks NextGen provides most up-to-date and relevant resources out there. I also listen to the Podcasts in the morning while I am setting up for the day. Really there isn’t much on the site that we don’t use. Keep up the great work!

Thanks Brent! We feel privileged to serve you and the thousands of high school educators looking for current, relevant and challenging resources for their students.

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Check out NGPF Data Crunch activities which are easily searchable with 60 to choose from. They bring math and data analysis into your classroom in a fun, engaging and easy to implement way.

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.