The community of NGPF Distinguished Educators is growing! We are getting close to a major milestone after the most recent NGPF Certification Course cohort thanks to these teachers' heroic efforts!

Personal Finance teachers close in on a major milestone

There are now 977 NGPF Distinguished Educators. 

To earn this award, teachers complete a combination of six or more NGPF Certification Courses. Each of their 6+ courses requires teachers to:

• participate in nine hours of live instruction to boost their content mastery in a core personal finance unit (e.g. Banking & Budgeting, Career, Investing) AND
• ace the corresponding 1-hour exam at the end of the cohort

If you're doing the math at home, the teachers we're celebrating today have each completed 60+ hours of targeted professional development, all about personal finance! Altogether, NGPF Distinguished Educators have completed 79,480 hours of Certification Courses with NGPF. Teachers, register for your next NGPF Certification Course to get one step closer to your award and join this rockstar group!

Meet the newly crowned Distinguished Educators

Jeffrey Abramowitz from Hutchinson Central Technical High School (NY)
Courtney Beavan from Virtual Learning Classrooms (NY)
Megan Burgoyne from Ogden High School (UT)
Heidi Corbin from Pierre S. Dupont Middle School (DE)
Brooke Damonte from Alder Grove Charter School (CA)
Emily Davis from Hope Street Academy (KS)
Alana Eaton Keller from Mifflin County High School (PA)
Liz Flynn from Beacon Charter School (RI)
Melissa Gore from Aynor High School (SC)
Edith Hamilton from John Champe High School (VA)
Lauren Hedrington from Superior Choice Credit Union (WI)
Ashley Johnson from Dekalb High School (IN)
Keyera Johnson from East Orange Stem Academy High School (NJ)
Lisa Jones from Glencoe High School (OR)
Lisa Keener from Robbinsville High School (NC)
Lindsay King from Boys Latin of Philadelphia (PA)
Sara Kraus from West Holt Public Schools (NE)
Courtney Kronk-Love from Pine-Richland High School (PA)
Karen Lash from Peru Jr/Sr High School (NY)
Migena Loli from Academy for Scholarship & Entrepreneurship (NY)
Dr. Wally Luckeydoo from Smyrna High School (TN)
Kimberly Lum from Leighton High School (UT)
Charles Maguire from James I. Oneill High School (NY)
Anthony Miletta from Orchard Collegiate Academy (NY)
Ashley Morgenthal from Homeschool (OH)
Anna Moses from Fairfield Warde High School (CT)
Vincent Muleka from Septima P. Clark Corporate Academy (SC)
Bridget Munday from St Henry District High School (KY)
Amy Pendleton from Broadman High School (OH)
Elizabeth Regl from Golden Triangle Early College (MS)
Amanda Robinson from First Flight High School (NC)
Tricia Ryan from Norman Howard School (NY)
Britnee Rynearson from MCAT High School (AZ)
Valerie Sanguinetti from Newton Community High School (IL)
Rebekah Shaw from The College Center (SC)
Sara Shreve-Price from George School (PA)
Jodiann Tenney from EdAdvance (CT)
Sarah Turner from Texas Tech University K-12 (TX)
Brooke Vennie from State College Area High School (PA)
Tatum Weaver from Harnett County Early College (NC)
Billie Wildman from Valley High School (WV)

Meet ALL the NGPF Distinguished Educators

• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 41-42, announced April 2024)
• Meet the Distingished Educators (earned Cohort 40, announced March 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 39, announced January 2024)
• 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.

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