Constancy’s 5 Cash Musts is a enjoyable interactive that exhibits college students the impression of their budgeting selections. We created dialogue inquiries to associate with this useful resource to your use within the classroom.
[Last updated: February 25, 2025]
These embody:
- Evaluating completely different job provides and selecting one
- Selecting an house to lease primarily based on commute time, value, and variety of roommates
- Selecting important bills
- Contributing to a 401(okay)
- Deciding whether or not to get a bank card
- Managing discretionary bills and leisure selections
- Establishing an emergency financial savings account
- Managing their happiness
Dialogue questions:
- What was essentially the most difficult choice you made?
- How did you resolve which job to take?
- What choice did you are feeling most certified to make? Least certified to make?
- How does the life you envision after highschool/school examine with what you simply skilled within the sport?
- How did you steadiness your funds together with your happiness stage?
- What’s one main takeaway you had from this interactive?
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the Authors
Tim Ranzetta
Tim’s saving habits began at seven when a neighbor with a damaged hip gave him a canine strolling job. Her restoration, which took virtually a yr, resulted in Tim attending to know the financial institution tellers fairly nicely (and accumulating a financial savings account steadiness of over $300!). His current entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing govt compensation packages for Fortune 500 firms and serving to households make higher school financing selections. After volunteering in 2010 to create and train a private finance program at Eastside Faculty Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim noticed firsthand the impression of an interesting and activity-based curriculum, which impressed him to begin a brand new non-profit, Subsequent Gen Private Finance.
Brian Web page
Making a distinction within the lives of scholars by monetary functionality is Brian’s best ardour. He involves NGPF after fifteen years of public faculty educating the place he was the ‘11 Ohio Division of Schooling recipient of a Milken Nationwide Educator Award, the CEE Forbes Award winner, and a Cash Journal/CNN “Cash Hero”. He served on the working group for President Obama’s Advisory Council on Monetary Functionality. He has personal faculty expertise as a Trustee for the Cincinnati Nation Day College and was a previous Ohio Soar$tart President. Brian holds a BBA and M.Ed. When Brian isn’t working alongside his NGPF teammates he’s doubtless spending time along with his spouse, three youngsters, and canine; mountain climbing, or watching Ohio State soccer.
