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CURRENT EVENT
NGPF Virtual Conference: Educate. Engage. Empower. - April 5, 2025
Celebrate Financial Literacy Month with NGPF! Join us for sessions designed to expand your financial knowledge, explore engaging classroom activities, and discover strategies to empower your students with essential money skills.
7:00am PT (10:00am ET)
Keynote: Tiffany 'The Budgetnista' Aliche Shares How to Get Good with Money
8:10am PT (11:10am ET)
Session 1: Learn from the Expert: David Gourley, CSLP on Teacher Student Loan Forgiveness
Session 2: Learn from the Expert: Aja Evans, Untangle Your Relationship with Money for Better Mental, Emotional, & Financial Well-Being
9:20am PT (12:20pm ET)
Learn from the Expert: Dan Otter & Scott Dauenhauer on Empowering Educators with 403(b) Investment Knowledge
10:30am PT (1:30pm ET)
Session 1: Experiential Learning with NGPF and Vanguard’s My Classroom Economy
Session 2: Top 10 Personal Finance Books for the Classroom
Session 3: Getting Started with NGPF
11:40am PT (2:40pm ET)
Session 1: Keeping Up with the FinTech Apps
Session 2: Investing: Index Funds Made Simple
Session 3: Teacher Panel: Secrets to an Engaged Classroom
12:50pm PT (3:50pm ET)
Session 1: Beyond the Screen: Hands-On NGPF Activities
Session 2: Top Scams of 2025
Session 3: Transforming the Classroom with AI Tools
2:00pm PT (5:00pm ET)
Finance in 40: Activities to Celebrate Financial Literacy Month (+ a raffle!)
Review materials from past NGPF conferences
PAST EVENT
NGPF Virtual Conference: Back to School - August 24, 2024
Join our virtual conference and kickstart your school year with fresh ideas to engage students, learn the latest finance trends, and collaborate with fellow educators on how to use NGPF lessons and activities!
7:00am PT (10:00am ET)
Session 1: Exploring AI in Financial Education
Session 2: Tips & Tricks: Navigating the NGPF Website
8:10am PT (11:10am ET)
Session 1: Experiential Learning with NGPF & Vanguard’s My Classroom Economy
Session 2: The Math Behind Banking and Budgeting
Session 3: Plan Your First Unit with NGPF
9:20am PT (12:20pm ET)
Session 1: Top Video Resources for the Personal Finance Classroom
Session 2: Fresh Tools for Financial Education: What's New at NGPF
Session 3: Brush Up On: Credit Scores
10:30am PT (1:30pm ET)
Financially Inclined from Marketplace with Professor Jasmine McNealy
11:40am PT (2:40pm ET)
Session 1: Podcasts in the Classroom
Session 2: Let's PLAY & MOVE: Activities to Make Finance Fun
Session 3: What's Trending in Personal Finance?
12:50pm PT (3:50pm ET)
Session 1: NGPF Activities Perfect for the First Week of School
Session 2: Teacher Panel: Implementing NGPF's Semester Course
PAST EVENT
NGPF Virtual Conference: Teaching Financial Lessons For Life - April 13, 2024
Celebrate Financial Literacy Month with NGPF! Join us for a mix of content-focused sessions and hands-on classroom activity ideas designed to empower educators in equipping students with essential financial skills.
7:00am PT (10:00am ET)
Session 1: Integrating AI into Financial Education
Session 2: Project Based Learning in the Personal Finance Classroom
Session 3: Experiential Learning with NGPF and Vanguard's My Classroom Economy
8:10am PT (11:10am ET)
Session 1: ICYMI: New NGPF Tools & Resources
Session 2: Money Myths & Misconceptions
Session 3: Create Your Own Personal Finance Portfolio Using Google Sites
9:20am PT (12:20pm ET)
Session 1: Brush Up On Budgeting
Session 2: Let's PLAY! Activities to Make Finance Fun
Session 3: Navigate the Online Banking World with NGPF's Bank Simulator
10:30am PT (1:30pm ET)
Session 1: Empowering Educators with 403(b) Investment Knowledge with Dan Otter & Scott Dauenhauer
Session 2: Decoding the Latest FAFSA & Financial Aid Updates with Mark Salisbury
11:40am PT (2:40pm ET)
Session 1: Hot Topics in Personal Finance
Session 2: Teacher Panel: How to Implement NGPF in the Classroom
12:50pm PT (3:50pm ET)
Resources to Celebrate FLM in Your Classroom & Community + a raffle!
PAST EVENT
NGPF Virtual Conference: Back to School - August 26, 2023
Start your school year strong with new ideas to engage students, updates on important topics in the world of finance, and opportunities to collaborate with other passionate educators on creative ways to use all the new NGPF lessons and activities!
7:00am PT (10:00am ET)
Session 1: Money Myths and Misconceptions
Session 2: Exploring the New Trimester Course & Updated Semester Course
Session 3: The Perfect Math Credit: Exploring Financial Algebra
8:10am PT (11:10am ET)
Session 1: NGPF’s Interactive Math Desmos Classroom Activities
Session 2: Using ChatGPT in Your Personal Finance Classroom
Session 3: Ideas for the First Day of School
9:20am PT (12:20pm ET)
Session 1: Top Video Resources for the Personal Finance Classroom
Session 2: Creative Instruction: Using Podcasts in Your Classroom
Session 3: Speaker Series: Student Loan Forgiveness with David Gourley
10:30am PT (1:30pm ET)
Finding YOUR Path to Wealth: A Keynote Discussion with Julien and Kiersten Saunders
11:40am PT (2:40pm ET)
Session 1: Explore Financial Literacy Activities in Canva
Session 2: The NEW Online Banking Simulator
Session 3: Nearpod Tips and Tricks
12:50pm PT (3:50pm ET)
Session 1: Inclusive Financial Education: Unbanked and Underbanked Americans
Session 2: Money Lessons in Middle School
Session 3: Exploring the NGPF Blog
2:00pm PT (5:00pm ET)
Raffle & Wrap-Up
PAST EVENT
NGPF Virtual Conference: Hot Topics in Personal Finance - April 29, 2023
Join us for timely classroom resources and thoughtful collaboration around the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, Chat GPT, and more current events. Don’t miss the keynote with NGPF’s own Yanely Espinal discussing her upcoming book: Mind Your Money!
7:00am PT (10:00am ET)
Current Events in the Financial World
8:10am PT (11:10am ET)
Session 1: Bank Runs, Bubbles, and Market Contagion
Session 2: Managing Upside Down Loans with Math
Session 3: Bringing Current Events to Your Classroom
9:20am PT (12:20pm ET)
Session 1: Understanding the Silicon Valley Bank Crisis and Its Aftermath
Session 2: NGPF New Releases
Session 3: Buy Now, Pay Later - Regulation, Growth, & Classroom Cautions
10:30am PT (1:30pm ET)
Owning Your Personal Financial Journey: A Keynote Conversation with Yanely Espinal
11:40am PT (2:40pm ET)
Session 1: Using ChatGPT in Your Personal Finance Classroom
Session 2: Top Scams to Look Out for in 2023
Session 3: Bringing Current Events to Your Classroom
12:50pm PT (3:50pm ET)
The State (and Future) of Financial Education
2:00pm PT (5:00pm ET)
Raffle & Wrap-Up
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