Adam Cole
Adam Cole is an NGPF Fellow and devoted educator dedicated to making ready college students for all times past highschool. He has taught private finance for over 12 years and likewise teaches statistics, accounting, and knowledge science. Outdoors the classroom, he coaches the Boys Swimming and Golf Groups and runs Infinite Summer time Monetary Planning, a registered funding advisory agency centered on serving to educators and households plan for retirement and navigate faculty prices.
Adam Wang
Adam has taught Math for over a decade, however prior to now few years has been devoted and centered on bringing monetary literacy and empowerment to his students in South Los Angeles. He’s excited to develop his capability as a private finance educator, and assist develop his students’ confidence and talent to grasp their cash.
Alicia Mattias
Alicia has been educating for over 25 years throughout three states. She graduated from Miami College with a Bachelor’s diploma in Secondary Social Research Training and earned a Grasp’s diploma in Academic Administration and Management from New Mexico State College. She at the moment teaches and coaches at Millbrook Excessive College in Raleigh, NC.
Allison Saiki
Allison Saiki found NGPF in 2019 and has been advocating for private finance schooling ever since. She brings real-world monetary literacy into her math courses and helps fellow educators by means of skilled growth in her group.
Christine Germain
Christine has been an authorized finance teacher at Nashua Excessive College South in Nashua, New Hampshire for the final 4 years. They provide a fingers on internship for college kids to learn to be tellers for Jeanne D’Arc Credit score Union whereas concurrently educating them private finance. She lives along with her husband Tim, daughters Kadyn and Kylie and loopy frenchie, Chester.
Cindy Shultz
Cindy teaches grades 7-12 Household Shopper Sciences programs together with Transitions & Careers and Private Monetary Administration (Toledo Public Colleges required it earlier than the state regulation mandate). Her educating profession contains huge experiences out and in of the classroom. Returning to the classroom in 2017 has been one of the best resolution she has made. She can also be a blessed Mother to The Ohio State College and College of Michigan graduates.
Daniela D’Amato
Daniela has been a math instructor for the previous 25 years. Along with educating Private Finance, she additionally teaches Algebra 2 and PreCalculus.
Danielle Hernandez
Danielle Hernandez taught Private Finance for 18 years earlier than moving into the function of Program Director on the nonprofit Philadelphia Monetary Students in 2023.
Daphne Hess
Daphne at the moment teaches arithmetic at Beechcroft Excessive College in Ohio. She has been educating at BHS for 19 years (a complete of 25 years). She teaches the maths behind monetary literacy and accelerated Algebra II. Daphne has had a ardour for serving to college students turn into extra cognizant of the right way to handle their cash. In an city faculty setting, she feels educating monetary literacy is very essential. She was launched to NGPF curriculum throughout COVID in 2020 and has been attending PD, taking the certification programs & on-demand modules, in addition to have attended Fin Camp in Ohio.
David Fox
David Fox is a Private Finance and Enterprise instructor in Salem Oregon. His ardour topic is Private Finance and believes in educating finance by means of the lens of happiness.
Fursheila White
Furshelia White is a devoted educator enthusiastic about empowering college students with important monetary literacy expertise. As a agency believer within the NGPF mission to make sure each U.S. highschool scholar graduates with a assured private finance course by 2030, Furshelia White actively makes use of NGPF’s free curriculum and participates of their skilled growth applications.
Jacqueline Collins
Jacqueline Collins is a Nationwide Board Licensed Instructor specializing in Profession and Technical Training, with a give attention to Enterprise, Advertising, and Monetary Providers. She is enthusiastic about advocating for monetary literacy schooling and creating impactful studying experiences for all college students. Jacqueline is dedicated to lifelong studying, volunteering for numerous instructional organizations, and frequently increasing her skilled experience.
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee holds an MBA and is a devoted educator at Clark Excessive College in Las Vegas, NV, the place she teaches English and Private Finance. She is a passionate advocate for monetary literacy and has been acknowledged as an NGPF Distinguished Educator for her dedication to her personal studying on the topic.
Jennifer Sharp
Jennifer has been an educator since 2005, specializing in enterprise programs equivalent to Private Finance, Economics & Monetary Providers, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, and Enterprise Possession. In 2020, she established the Enterprise & Banking Academy for juniors and seniors at her highschool, offering college students with beneficial internship alternatives at native companies. Jennifer is enthusiastic about empowering people to understand private finance ideas, enabling them to steer financially steady lives.
Jessica Zarnke
Jessica Zarnke is a devoted advocate for private monetary literacy, acknowledged as a 2024 recipient of the Wisconsin Governor’s Monetary Literacy Award, a NGPF Distinguished Educator, and a DPI PFL Fellow. She has been educating Okay–12 monetary literacy within the College District of Loyal for over seven years, the place she brings a sensible and lifelong method to monetary schooling.
Jim Naab
Jim has been educating enterprise courses for 27 years. At the moment he teaches Monetary Literacy, Accounting, Enterprise and Private Regulation, and Introduction to Entrepreneurship at Dublin Scioto Excessive College. He holds a Grasp’s in Academic Management and Athletic Administration.
Pleasure Tavano
Pleasure Tavano has been a passionate enterprise educator since 2000. She at the moment teaches Private Finance, Accounting & Teamship at North Kingstown Excessive College in Rhode Island. She additionally serves because the Enterprise CTE Internship Coordinator and DECA advisor.
Julie Giglia
Julie is grateful to NGPF for awarding her a scholarship to attend the Nationwide JumpStart Educator Convention in Boston. This chance has allowed her to deepen my information of economic literacy, join with inspiring educators, and develop as an expert. She is proud to be an NGPF Fellow and appreciates all they do to help lecturers and remodel monetary schooling.
Kelli Champagne
Kelli coordinates and abroad the monetary literacy applications and monetary literacy partnerships for MCPS and MCPS college students in grades 6-12.
Kellie McDonald
Kellie is a enterprise proprietor and educator in her second profession, educating enterprise, entrepreneurship, and monetary literacy at Daniel C. Oakes Different Excessive College in Citadel Rock, Colorado. She performed a task in serving to deliver Home Invoice 1192 to approval in Colorado, advancing monetary schooling statewide. Kellie is honored to affix this 12 months’s convention!
Lisa Andresen
Lisa Andresen is in her twentieth 12 months of schooling and her sixth 12 months as a Cross Categorical Instructor at Madison West H.S. the place she is the cooperating instructor for Earth Science and co-teacher for Unbiased Residing. She is the co-advisor for H.O.S.A. and is at the moment engaged on a Spanish language certificates with U.W. Milwaukee. Lisa lives along with her husband and two canines in Viroqua, WI.
Lisa Salas Brown
Lisa is the Deputy Superintendent of Academic Providers on the Ventura County Workplace of Training in Ventura, CA.
Marsha Iverson
With the beneficiant help of NGPF and a Jordan Model FEE Grant, Marsha is honored to broaden and enrich Private Finance in New York Metropolis’s excessive colleges. Within the last 12 months of the 3-year grant, NYC Public Colleges may have supplied skilled growth for over 250 highschool lecturers in 136 colleges to ship standalone Private Finance programs to their college students.
Melissa Gordon
Melissa graduated with a departmental honors in enterprise, administration, advertising, and expertise schooling and secondary math from Jap Michigan College, the place she was additionally a member of the golf crew. She obtained her Masters diploma in Academic Media and Expertise additionally from EMU. She’s in her sixteenth 12 months of educating and loves educating private finance as a result of making ready youngsters for his or her future can change their world.
Melissa Solis
Melissa has taught a variety of Social Research programs for over 13 years. In her present function as Social Research Coordinator, she helps the implementation of Private Monetary Literacy and is keen to discover modern, cognitively partaking methods that empower college students to construct a robust basis for a financially affluent future.
Miche Franken
Miche Franken has 25 years in schooling. At the moment serves because the Private Monetary Literacy Coordinator for her district, supporting lecturers of the Economics and Private Finance commencement requirement. Different pursuits embody teaching journey membership volleyball and rescuing large breed canines.
Sharon Thorne-Inexperienced
Sharon Thorne-Inexperienced, J.D., serves as a Curriculum Coordinator in Katy ISD, supporting secondary Social Research programs equivalent to Economics, Private Monetary Literacy, and AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. She is enthusiastic about equipping lecturers with efficient methods and assets to assist college students perceive and recognize the significance of non-public finance.
Sheila Salehian
Sheila Salehian in a private finance advisor, instructor advocate and devoted educator. Sheila works tirelessly to make sure each center and highschool instructor has what they should really feel assured educating the monetary literacy tutorial content material requirements required, in math, social research, and private finance in Nevada.
Valerie Jackson
Valerie Jackson has been a instructor at Beaufort Excessive College, her alma mater, for over 30 years. She teaches Private Finance and Fashionable World Historical past. With the implementation of the South Carolina Private Finance commencement requirement, she has spent her time enhancing her information and expertise in Private Finance matters in order that she will be able to higher work with and serve her college students.
Yonathan Tadesse
Yonathan Tadesse is a instructor at Decide Barefoot Sanders Regulation Magnet Excessive College in Dallas. He has taught pure arithmetic for 11 years, and just lately began educating a private monetary literacy course to college students and believes it’s life-changing work.
Adam Cole
Adam Cole is an NGPF Fellow and devoted educator dedicated to making ready college students for all times past highschool. He has taught private finance for over 12 years and likewise teaches statistics, accounting, and knowledge science. Outdoors the classroom, he coaches the Boys Swimming and Golf Groups and runs Infinite Summer time Monetary Planning, a registered funding advisory agency centered on serving to educators and households plan for retirement and navigate faculty prices.
Adam Wang
Adam has taught Math for over a decade, however prior to now few years has been devoted and centered on bringing monetary literacy and empowerment to his students in South Los Angeles. He’s excited to develop his capability as a private finance educator, and assist develop his students’ confidence and talent to grasp their cash.
Alicia Mattias
Alicia has been educating for over 25 years throughout three states. She graduated from Miami College with a Bachelor’s diploma in Secondary Social Research Training and earned a Grasp’s diploma in Academic Administration and Management from New Mexico State College. She at the moment teaches and coaches at Millbrook Excessive College in Raleigh, NC.
Allison Saiki
Allison Saiki found NGPF in 2019 and has been advocating for private finance schooling ever since. She brings real-world monetary literacy into her math courses and helps fellow educators by means of skilled growth in her group.
Christine Germain
Christine has been an authorized finance teacher at Nashua Excessive College South in Nashua, New Hampshire for the final 4 years. They provide a fingers on internship for college kids to learn to be tellers for Jeanne D’Arc Credit score Union whereas concurrently educating them private finance. She lives along with her husband Tim, daughters Kadyn and Kylie and loopy frenchie, Chester.
Cindy Shultz
Cindy teaches grades 7-12 Household Shopper Sciences programs together with Transitions & Careers and Private Monetary Administration (Toledo Public Colleges required it earlier than the state regulation mandate). Her educating profession contains huge experiences out and in of the classroom. Returning to the classroom in 2017 has been one of the best resolution she has made. She can also be a blessed Mother to The Ohio State College and College of Michigan graduates.
Daniela D’Amato
Daniela has been a math instructor for the previous 25 years. Along with educating Private Finance, she additionally teaches Algebra 2 and PreCalculus.
Danielle Hernandez
Danielle Hernandez taught Private Finance for 18 years earlier than moving into the function of Program Director on the nonprofit Philadelphia Monetary Students in 2023.
Daphne Hess
Daphne at the moment teaches arithmetic at Beechcroft Excessive College in Ohio. She has been educating at BHS for 19 years (a complete of 25 years). She teaches the maths behind monetary literacy and accelerated Algebra II. Daphne has had a ardour for serving to college students turn into extra cognizant of the right way to handle their cash. In an city faculty setting, she feels educating monetary literacy is very essential. She was launched to NGPF curriculum throughout COVID in 2020 and has been attending PD, taking the certification programs & on-demand modules, in addition to have attended Fin Camp in Ohio.
David Fox
David Fox is a Private Finance and Enterprise instructor in Salem Oregon. His ardour topic is Private Finance and believes in educating finance by means of the lens of happiness.
Fursheila White
Furshelia White is a devoted educator enthusiastic about empowering college students with important monetary literacy expertise. As a agency believer within the NGPF mission to make sure each U.S. highschool scholar graduates with a assured private finance course by 2030, Furshelia White actively makes use of NGPF’s free curriculum and participates of their skilled growth applications.
Jacqueline Collins
Jacqueline Collins is a Nationwide Board Licensed Instructor specializing in Profession and Technical Training, with a give attention to Enterprise, Advertising, and Monetary Providers. She is enthusiastic about advocating for monetary literacy schooling and creating impactful studying experiences for all college students. Jacqueline is dedicated to lifelong studying, volunteering for numerous instructional organizations, and frequently increasing her skilled experience.
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee holds an MBA and is a devoted educator at Clark Excessive College in Las Vegas, NV, the place she teaches English and Private Finance. She is a passionate advocate for monetary literacy and has been acknowledged as an NGPF Distinguished Educator for her dedication to her personal studying on the topic.
Jennifer Sharp
Jennifer has been an educator since 2005, specializing in enterprise programs equivalent to Private Finance, Economics & Monetary Providers, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, and Enterprise Possession. In 2020, she established the Enterprise & Banking Academy for juniors and seniors at her highschool, offering college students with beneficial internship alternatives at native companies. Jennifer is enthusiastic about empowering people to understand private finance ideas, enabling them to steer financially steady lives.
Jessica Zarnke
Jessica Zarnke is a devoted advocate for private monetary literacy, acknowledged as a 2024 recipient of the Wisconsin Governor’s Monetary Literacy Award, a NGPF Distinguished Educator, and a DPI PFL Fellow. She has been educating Okay–12 monetary literacy within the College District of Loyal for over seven years, the place she brings a sensible and lifelong method to monetary schooling.
Jim Naab
Jim has been educating enterprise courses for 27 years. At the moment he teaches Monetary Literacy, Accounting, Enterprise and Private Regulation, and Introduction to Entrepreneurship at Dublin Scioto Excessive College. He holds a Grasp’s in Academic Management and Athletic Administration.
Pleasure Tavano
Pleasure Tavano has been a passionate enterprise educator since 2000. She at the moment teaches Private Finance, Accounting & Teamship at North Kingstown Excessive College in Rhode Island. She additionally serves because the Enterprise CTE Internship Coordinator and DECA advisor.
Julie Giglia
Julie is grateful to NGPF for awarding her a scholarship to attend the Nationwide JumpStart Educator Convention in Boston. This chance has allowed her to deepen my information of economic literacy, join with inspiring educators, and develop as an expert. She is proud to be an NGPF Fellow and appreciates all they do to help lecturers and remodel monetary schooling.
Kelli Champagne
Kelli coordinates and abroad the monetary literacy applications and monetary literacy partnerships for MCPS and MCPS college students in grades 6-12.
Kellie McDonald
Kellie is a enterprise proprietor and educator in her second profession, educating enterprise, entrepreneurship, and monetary literacy at Daniel C. Oakes Different Excessive College in Citadel Rock, Colorado. She performed a task in serving to deliver Home Invoice 1192 to approval in Colorado, advancing monetary schooling statewide. Kellie is honored to affix this 12 months’s convention!
Lisa Andresen
Lisa Andresen is in her twentieth 12 months of schooling and her sixth 12 months as a Cross Categorical Instructor at Madison West H.S. the place she is the cooperating instructor for Earth Science and co-teacher for Unbiased Residing. She is the co-advisor for H.O.S.A. and is at the moment engaged on a Spanish language certificates with U.W. Milwaukee. Lisa lives along with her husband and two canines in Viroqua, WI.
Lisa Salas Brown
Lisa is the Deputy Superintendent of Academic Providers on the Ventura County Workplace of Training in Ventura, CA.
Marsha Iverson
With the beneficiant help of NGPF and a Jordan Model FEE Grant, Marsha is honored to broaden and enrich Private Finance in New York Metropolis’s excessive colleges. Within the last 12 months of the 3-year grant, NYC Public Colleges may have supplied skilled growth for over 250 highschool lecturers in 136 colleges to ship standalone Private Finance programs to their college students.
Melissa Gordon
Melissa graduated with a departmental honors in enterprise, administration, advertising, and expertise schooling and secondary math from Jap Michigan College, the place she was additionally a member of the golf crew. She obtained her Masters diploma in Academic Media and Expertise additionally from EMU. She’s in her sixteenth 12 months of educating and loves educating private finance as a result of making ready youngsters for his or her future can change their world.
Melissa Solis
Melissa has taught a variety of Social Research programs for over 13 years. In her present function as Social Research Coordinator, she helps the implementation of Private Monetary Literacy and is keen to discover modern, cognitively partaking methods that empower college students to construct a robust basis for a financially affluent future.
Miche Franken
Miche Franken has 25 years in schooling. At the moment serves because the Private Monetary Literacy Coordinator for her district, supporting lecturers of the Economics and Private Finance commencement requirement. Different pursuits embody teaching journey membership volleyball and rescuing large breed canines.
Sharon Thorne-Inexperienced
Sharon Thorne-Inexperienced, J.D., serves as a Curriculum Coordinator in Katy ISD, supporting secondary Social Research programs equivalent to Economics, Private Monetary Literacy, and AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. She is enthusiastic about equipping lecturers with efficient methods and assets to assist college students perceive and recognize the significance of non-public finance.
Sheila Salehian
Sheila Salehian in a private finance advisor, instructor advocate and devoted educator. Sheila works tirelessly to make sure each center and highschool instructor has what they should really feel assured educating the monetary literacy tutorial content material requirements required, in math, social research, and private finance in Nevada.
Valerie Jackson
Valerie Jackson has been a instructor at Beaufort Excessive College, her alma mater, for over 30 years. She teaches Private Finance and Fashionable World Historical past. With the implementation of the South Carolina Private Finance commencement requirement, she has spent her time enhancing her information and expertise in Private Finance matters in order that she will be able to higher work with and serve her college students.
Yonathan Tadesse
Yonathan Tadesse is a instructor at Decide Barefoot Sanders Regulation Magnet Excessive College in Dallas. He has taught pure arithmetic for 11 years, and just lately began educating a private monetary literacy course to college students and believes it’s life-changing work.
