Teach Personal Finance With Confidence
A 1-Week Live Training for High School Social Science Teachers
If you’ve been asked (or volunteered) to teach personal finance and thought:
“I wasn’t trained for this… and honestly, I still have questions about money myself,”
You are exactly who this training is for.
What This Training Is
This is a 1-week, live, virtual training designed specifically for high school social science teachers (not math teachers) who want to confidently teach a one-semester personal finance course.
By the end of the week, you will walk away with:
A complete, ready-to-teach semester plan
All lesson plans, activities, and materials
A clear understanding of how money actually works in real life
The confidence to teach this content with clarity, integrity, and impact
No scrambling. No Googling. No pulling worksheets from ten different places.
I have already done that work for you.
What Makes This Training Different (and Why It Works)
This isn’t content created by an outside organization guessing what classrooms need.
This is real classroom content – written by a teacher, for teachers.
I spent years teaching personal finance to high school students, building, testing, refining, and perfecting this curriculum in a real classroom. I eventually developed a full year-long personal finance course, and this training gives you everything you need to confidently teach a one-semester version.
This is practical. Empowering. Student-centered. And realistic.
What You’ll Get
A Complete Semester of Curriculum
- Day-by-day pacing guide
- Lesson plans and activities
- Student-friendly explanations of money concepts
- Materials you can use immediately
Live Walk-Through of the Entire Semester
- How each unit fits together
- What to emphasize
- Common student questions (and how to answer them)
- How to teach money without shame or overwhelm
Learn the Money Concepts You Were Never Taught
You don’t just get lesson plans - you learn the material deeply so you can teach it with confidence.
We cover:
- Budgeting and cash flow
- Credit and debt
- Saving and investing
- Real-life financial decision-making
- How money connects to students’ future goals
Ongoing Coaching & Support
This training does not end in summer and neither does your support.
As a Teach Teens Money Teacher Training participant, you will receive access to a weekly live Zoom office hour throughout the school year.
Bring your questions on content, lesson delivery, or real classroom situations and get clear, immediate guidance. You can ask:
- Content questions
- Teaching questions
- “I never really understood this - can you explain it?” questions
Can’t Attend Live?
No problem.
You can purchase the self-paced version and complete the training on your own schedule – with full access to the curriculum and recordings.
California Department of Education press conference at my high school, where state leaders met with my students to understand why a full year of personal finance should be required to graduate. As the teacher representative for the statewide movement, I helped advocate for what I now train other educators to do: teach real-world money skills that change lives.
Why This Matters (Especially Right Now)
By 2030, over 29 states will require personal finance for high school graduation.
That means schools need:
More trained teachers
More confident teachers
Teachers who actually understand the material they’re teaching
The reality?
Most Americans were never taught how to manage money — so how could we expect teachers to feel confident teaching it without support?
This training teaches teachers first, then gives them the tools to teach students.
For Principals & School Leaders
Send your teachers.
This training:
Eliminates curriculum gaps
Saves planning time
Builds teacher confidence
Directly supports graduation requirements
Equips educators with real-world, life-changing content
Your students don’t need another worksheet.
They need teachers who feel empowered teaching money.
Personal Finance teacher Crystal Rigley Janis, Berkeley Superintendent Enika Ford, CA State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and owner of Next Gen Personal Finance Tim Ranzetta.
Training Dates & Details
Live via Zoom (no travel, no hotels, no extra costs)
July 27–30
- 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM PST
Investment
Standard Tuition: $1,497 or 5 monthly payments of $400
Early Bird Pricing (Book by April 30)
$997 or 5 monthly payments of $250
This Is For You If…
You’re a high school social science teacher
You want to teach personal finance but don’t want to build it from scratch
You want to feel confident teaching money
You care deeply about preparing students for real life
You want curriculum created by someone who actually taught this content
You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone
I’ve already done the hard part — the planning, the testing, the refining, the teaching.
Now you get to step into the classroom prepared, confident, and ready to change lives.
Student Reviews
Before Class
“I had really bad spending problems, as soon as I got money I normally would go and buy stuff soon after, not really stuff I needed just convenience purchases.”
After Class
“I look at money now in a new way, not only as something I can use to get stuff that I like but more as a tool that I know how to use for a successful future.”
— M.C., high school grad 2024
Before Class
“I didn’t have a budget, so I struggled with impulsive spending and retail therapy. ”
After Class
“My main takeaway is how to use money to achieve your dreams and approaching it with a healthy mindset. I think in the past, I viewed money as something negative, but after taking this class, I’ve realized that it’s a powerful tool to achieve goals and once you breakdown your money blocks and understand how to better approach spending and budgeting, it’s not something to be scared of. I’ve learned that making your financial dreams is possible if you use the right tools to do so. That is to say, not everything is a need, but it’s okay to splurge once in a while if it means living your dream life. Budgeting has taught me where my spending holes are and what I need to prioritize when it comes to my purchases. It’s shown me what I tend to buy and that has helped me shift my spending to more practical purchases. Most of all, I’ve learned that financial freedom is possible. I haven’t grown up with that mindset, so this class teaching me that I have the potential to make that a reality has been extremely inspiring.”
— O.B., high school grad 2024
Before Class
“I know how to make money but can not hold on to it to save my life.”
After Class
“This class has motivated me to form good habits that don’t necessarily have to be big but they need to start now so that I can have an easier road to financial freedom and being on track for my dream life.”
— K.G., high school grad 2024
Student test question
Success stories
“Because of this class, I have a more positive relationship with money. I know how to use my money to my long term advantages and how to save my money to build generational wealth. Before this class, I was struggling with saving money. Every time I would get money, it would be gone within a week, if not a few days.”
— S.M., high school grad 2024
“Budgeting, managing debt, banking and high yield savings account, investing. These things are stuff you need to be able to know to live financially stress free. I would have never know about any of these things if it wasn’t for this class. So if you can handle these things you’ll be able to build wealth and avoid debt.
This class set me up for my future. If I didn’t take this class I would have just put my money into a bank account and left it there for years. Now I know what to do with my money, and where to put it, so I will be set up well for my future.”
— T.J., high school grad 2024
“Some of the most important things I learned this year were investing and budgeting because they allow me to plan for a financially stable future. I didn’t know much about investing before this class, but now I feel confident I can build up my millions. This class helped me understand that the most important thing I have in terms of finances is time. Budgeting was also super helpful because I never tracked my spending before this. Budgeting helps you identify your biggest expenses and helps you determine where you can cut costs. I’ve learned to differentiate between my wants and needs. Thanks to this class I feel more confident about reaching my financial goals for the future.”
— S.M., high school grad 2024
“This class has had an] extreme impact [on my life]. I’ve learned so much about money, how to save money, how to spend money, etc. that I don’t think I would have learned without this class. I think learning the reality of money is so important at this time in peoples lives because often money isn’t talked about and good habits go undiscussed which leads to financial ruin, this class helps avoid that.”
The most important things you learned are …
”How to properly invest, I have never been told how to safely invest or set up a retirement account
Budgeting, learning recommended percentages for where to allocate money, how to have that conversation about where money is going is really important.
Managing habits, learning how to reverse long term impacts by making small changes to your daily routine.
Finding housing and knowing how much to spend on housing, especially in the market our generation is going to (and me going to Santa Cruz) figuring out how to efficiently and productively find housing is so important.”
— I.M., high school grad 2024
“This class definitely had a big impact on my life. It made me think about money and my future in such a different way. I was able to think deeply about what I want for my life, and figure out the ways to make those things happen. It also gave me so much valuable information that I will be able to use for my whole life.
All of the things we learned this year were important, however a few stood out to me. Learning about investing, saving, and budgeting were some of the most useful things I have learned in my entire life. These subjects have helped me in my life today and will be able to help me so much in the rest of my life. They gave me the opportunity to look my life and be able to plan and dream for the life that I want. They give me the framework to work hard and accomplish everything I want to do.”
— W.P., high school grad 2024
“The most important thing to me that we learned and the most useful was the tactics of budgeting and investing. I feel like there’s not enough education around this topic and if I hadn’t taken this class I would already be facing thousands of dollars in debt in my first 5 years of independence. No one in my family really knows how to finance their lives efficiently enough to reach those goals of $2M. When I mentioned to my mom that this was a reachable goal she didnt believe it. SHe only has around $100k in her 401k and she considered that a lot, but in reality our world suffers from inflation and that wont be enough even after they retire. It really helped me get a head start on my future and I now know how to manage money more consciously and in a way that will help me in the future. If I hadn’t taken this class I wouldn’t know how to invest with who and when I should start. There are many factors to living your best life and in our society money is one of those top things that are necessary.”
— N.R., high school grad 2024
“To be honest I think everything I learned in this class was helpful and important. What I would say was most important was budgeting, investing, credit cards, savings, and loans. These topics were important to me because no one teaches these things once you become an adult and most of these topics you have to start early to build wealth. Without learning about this I wouldn’t know how to do them or I would potentially do it wrong.
This class did have an impact in my life because it showed me all the tools I need to become financially free. I now base a lot of my spending decisions on what I have learned from this class. I budget my money and I make sure I don’t spend on unnecessary things. Also because of this class I know how to do all the topics we went over. If I hadn’t known I would have gone blindly into adult life without doing these things right. With the knowledge I have gotten in this class I also help my family on making responsible money decisions and managing their money.”
— A.S., high school grad 2024
Project assignment. Some of my favorite student created memes