A Program About Managing Money That Turns Learning into Action!

When it comes to learning about how to handle and manage money, any knowledge a student gains from a course on the subject isn’t worth much if there isn’t a way to turn what they learn into real actions that result in positive habits. That is what the NEFE High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP) does through its seven unit Student Guide and Instructor’s Manual.

While most financial education programs focus on subjects to be learned, the NEFE HSFPP turns the focus on the students, so the curriculum is not about creating a budget, but creating THEIR budgets, THEIR financial plan, THEIR saving plan, THEIR investing plan. That’s right, the NEFE HSFPP personalizes learning so that students can immediately begin to apply learned skills in their own life.

The NEFE HSFPP was designed and developed around a special type of education called performance-based learning. With performance-based learning, students take what they learn and apply it directly in the course of each unit. Carefully designed exercises and activities move the student step-by-step toward each of the seven core competencies that the program teaches. In the process, students

1. Create their own financial plan
2. Create their own budget
3. Propose a personal saving and investing plan
4. Select strategies to use in handling credit and managing their debt
5. Demonstrate how to use various financial services
6. Create a personal insurance plan
7. Examine how their choice of career and lifestyle will affect their financial plan

Along the way to learning these seven lessons, students also learn dozens of related skills, all designed to help them see how easy and important it is to manage their resources.

There are many places in the NEFE HSFPP where parents and trusted professionals in the community can play a role in the student’s learning process. Because the program covers such an important aspect of every person’s life, we encourage teachers to help bring learning out of the classroom by involving parents with specially scripted e-mail messages, and inviting financial professionals to meet with students to help broaden and deepen their understanding of each subject in the program.

The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program was developed by teachers and financial professionals who know how to move students from knowledge to the kinds of positive action that will help them begin their financial lives on the right foot.

NEFE High School Financial Planning Program