These 21 newly crowned NGPF Distinguished Educators were hard at work on their latest NGPF Certification Courses before the ball dropped!

To earn NGPF Distinguished Educator status, teachers complete any combination of 6 or more NGPF Certification Courses. Each of those courses is 10 hours of instruction with a 1 hour end-of-course exam. All that said, the NGPF Distinguished Educator award is a serious professional development feat!

NGPF Distinguished Educators get engaging professional learning experiences in their NGPF Certification Courses, but they also get awesome rewards to go with their accomplishment:

• beautiful plaques to hang in their classrooms,
• digital badges to display in their emails and online profiles, and
• recognition on the NGPF website, as below.

Meet the New NGPF Distinguished Educators!

Timothy Ahle from North Rockland High School (NY)

Elena Allen from East High School (CO)

John Bagley from Academy of the Sacred Heart (MI)

Shellie Ballard-Thomas from Florence High School (AL)

Natasha Bean from New York University (NY)

Christyn Brown from Infinite Learner Master Teacher (IL)

Allison Cecil from Dupont Manual High School (KY)

Darci Friberg from Fair Grove High School (MO)

Becky Grodek from Manitowoc Lincoln High School (WI)

Ted Janicki from University of Maryland (MD)

Bee Lim from Ingraham High School (VA)

Ann-Marie Linz from Watchung Hills Regional High School (NJ)

Jessica Miron from Atlantic High School (Port Orange, FL)

Mary Neill from Greensboro College Middle College (NC)

Brenda Savic from Hamilton High School (WI)

Angela Snakenberg from Hillcrest Academy (IA)

Chad Swanson from Harlan Community High School (IA)

Neil Thompson from Grace Christian School (Intl)

Kara Williams from West Monroe High School (LA)

Cheryl Wortham from Granville Central High School (NC)

Carol Zeitz from Lawrence Elkins High School (TX)

Meet ALL the NGPF Distinguished Educators

As of writing, 853 teachers have earned the NGPF Distinguished Educator award!

• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 38, announced December 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 37, announced October 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Pilot Cohort, announced September 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 35-36, announced August 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 34, announced July 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 33, announced June 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 32, announced May 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 31, announced April 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 30, announced February 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 29, announced January 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 28, announced December 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 27, announced November 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 25-26, announced September 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 1-24, announced July 2022)

About the Author

Christian Sherrill

Former teacher, forever financial education nerd. As NGPF's Director of Growth & Advocacy, Christian is laser-focused on our mission to guarantee all students a rigorous personal finance course before crossing the high school graduation stage. Having paid down over $40k in student loans in the span of 3 years - while living in the Bay Area on an entry level teacher's salary - he's eager to help the next generation avoid financial pitfalls one semester at a time.