May 28, 2025

Serendipity: 1,234 NGPF Distinguished Educators!

March 14th is Pi Day. May 4th is Star Wars Day. May 29th will now forever be known as 1-2-3-4 Distinguished Educators Day.

If only the NGPF Distinguished Educator Award were as easy as 1-2-3-4!

To earn the NGPF Distinguished Educator award, teachers complete a combination of six or more NGPF Certification Courses.

Each of their 6+ NGPF Certifications requires teachers to:

  • participate in 9 hours of live or asynchronous instruction to boost their content mastery in a core personal finance unit (e.g. Banking & Budgeting, Career, Investing)
  • ace the corresponding 1-hour exam at the end of the cohort

Teachers, register for your next NGPF Certification Course to get one step closer to your award and join this distinguished group!

Meet the Distinguished Educators for May 2025:

  • Julia Baxter from Career and Academic Development Institute & Motivation High School (PA)
  • Jevie Buck from Santa Maria High School (CA)
  • Tera Burch from Billings West High School (MT)
  • Maria Caballero from Lindsay Senior High School (CA)
  • Justin Dionne from Walter Fitzgerald Campus (CT)
  • Stephanie Dunaieff from Brentwood High School (NY)
  • Nicole Duncan from Seneca Valley High School (PA)
  • Lori Gaudette from Woonsocket High School (RI)
  • Stephanie Gray from Highland Jr.-Sr. High School (MO)
  • Stephanie Hammerman from Birmingham Community Charter High School (CA)
  • Kerry Hartley from Canton High School (CT)
  • Carter Hempleman from Edward Brooke Charter School (MA)
  • Christopher Hunold from Canyon Springs High School (NV)
  • Jamison Jaques from Hesperia High (CA)
  • Susan Kline from Cuesta College (CA)
  • Joseph Long (NY)
  • Kerry McGregor from Dutch Fork High School (SC)
  • Tara Micham from J. C. Harmon High School (KS)
  • Regina Miniutti from Greenwich High School (CT)
  • Kristin Mullin from Bishop Blanchet High School (WA)
  • Michael Pincus from Scarsdale Middle School (NY)
  • Phoebe Price from Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning - SAEL (CA)
  • Alexander Pugh from Kearns High (UT)
  • Sofia Rehmer from Bloomfield High School (CT)
  • Donna Sanders from South Tech Academy (FL)
  • Keith Smith from Academic Center of Excellence (NE)
  • Jacob Taft from Beech Grove Sr. High School (IN)
  • Archana Vardhan, Homeschool (CA)
  • Delmar Wilson from Miami Springs Senior High School (FL)
  • Jack Woerner, Homeschool (NC)

Meet ALL the Distinguished Educators

There are now 1,234 NGPF Distinguished Educators!

About the Author

Christian Sherrill

Former teacher, forever financial education nerd. As NGPF's Director of Teacher Success, Christian is laser-focused on helping the heroic teachers who fuel NGPF's mission to guarantee all students a life-changing personal finance course. 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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