We have already informed you in regards to the three pathways you’ll be able to take at NGPF’s Monetary Literacy Month Digital Convention on April 11, 2026. Now, we need to introduce our convention audio system.
The audio system becoming a member of us this 12 months deliver experience, vitality, and relevance to your classroom and your personal monetary life. Here is who you may see (and why you will not need to miss them).
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Julia & Philip from PBS Two Cents — 7:00 am PT / 10:00am ET |
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The convention kicks off with the duo behind Two Cents, PBS Digital Studios’ private finance sequence. Julia and Philip have constructed a following by earning profits subjects really feel accessible, participating, and enjoyable. On this opening session, they’re going to share what they’ve realized about explaining monetary ideas in ways in which truly stick, together with sensible methods to construct monetary confidence for your self and your college students. In case you’ve used their movies in your classroom, that is your likelihood to listen to straight from the individuals who made them. |
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Yanely Espinal, Writer & NGPF Director of Academic Outreach — 8:10 am PT / 11:10 am ET |
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Yanely is the sort of private finance educator who can maintain a room. Her session, Thoughts Your Cash: Easy Methods to Attain Your Cash Objectives, is constructed for academics, equal elements sensible and relatable, protecting goal-setting, budgeting, credit score, and long-term wealth constructing. She skips the dry lecture format and delivers content material that is trustworthy and actionable. Academics who attend will stroll away with concepts they will apply to their very own monetary lives and adapt for his or her college students. Plus, one fortunate convention attendee will win a classroom set of her e-book, Thoughts Your Cash. |
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Melissa Gordon, Private Finance Educator — 8:10 am PT / 11:10 am ET |
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One of many highlights of any NGPF convention is listening to from academics within the discipline, and this 12 months is not any exception. Melissa Gordon brings hands-on classroom expertise to her session, Turning Assignments into AI-Literacy Alternatives. Melissa will stroll academics by means of methods to set clear boundaries for pupil use of AI, methods to improve studying with AI instruments, and methods to maintain pupil considering on the heart all through. You may depart with concrete, ready-to-use methods you’ll be able to implement immediately, from a instructor who has already put them into follow. |
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Dan Otter & Scott Dauenhauer of 403bwise — 9:20 am PT / 12:20 pm ET |
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Dan Otter and Scott Dauenhauer have made it their mission to chop by means of the complexity of educator retirement plans and advocate for higher funding choices for Okay–12 academics. Their session, Higher Technique to Save for Retirement: 403(b) or 457(b)?, takes on some of the complicated selections educators face, and solutions it with readability. Whether or not you are simply beginning to consider retirement or have been attempting to make sense of your choices for years, this session is for you. |
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Kyla Scanlon, Writer & Financial Educator — 10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET (Keynote) |
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Kyla Scanlon is a New York Instances bestselling writer and some of the outstanding financial voices on social media, recognized for serving to audiences transfer from confusion to readability on the forces shaping our monetary lives. Her keynote, In This Financial system? Engaged & Empowered Cash Minds, will assist academics who help their college students to make sense of at present’s financial uncertainty. Kyla brings real-world perception and the flexibility to make markets and cash really feel much less overwhelming. As an added bonus, 200 attendees will win a duplicate of her e-book. |
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Lucretia Ryan, Founding father of FinancialFreedomforWomen.org — 11:40 am PT / 2:40 pm ET |
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Lucretia Ryan rounds out the featured speaker lineup with a session that hits near residence for a lot of academics: Medicare & Social Safety: Keep away from These Retirement Errors. Do you know that almost 96% of individuals declare Social Safety on the fallacious time? Lucretia breaks down how to decide on the best Medicare plan, together with an perception into Medicare Benefit, and explains what academics in non-Social Safety states must know to get essentially the most out of their advantages. This one is private finance for you, the instructor. |
The Particulars
| Date: | Saturday, April 11, 2026 |
| Time: | 7 am – 3 pm PT / 10 am – 6 pm ET |
| Price: | FREE! |
| Prizes: | Attend two or extra periods to be eligible for a $50 Amazon reward card. One attendee wins a classroom set of Yanely Espinal’s e-book, and 200 attendees win a duplicate of Kyla Scanlon’s e-book. |
Be part of us at our April Convention and listen to from these consultants. Come for the audio system who communicate to you; depart with concepts, instruments, and a renewed sense of what is attainable in your classroom and your personal monetary life.
Register for the convention at present!
About
the Writer
Albert Perez
As NGPF’s Skilled Improvement Program Supervisor, Albert leads Skilled Improvement, works with faculty districts, and helps the implementation of NGPF’s private finance curriculum.







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