Celebrating a Summer of Distinguished Educators
Learn how 13 educators earned NGPF Distinguished Educator awards after their dynamic summer of Certification Courses!
To earn the NGPF Distinguished Educator award, teachers pass at least 6 NGPF Certification Courses, each of which is 10 hours of live instruction with an end-of-course exam. This demonstrates their amazing commitment to personal finance content expertise. With confident personal finance content experts in the classroom, the next generation is in very good hands!
The NGPF Distinguished Educator award comes with great rewards:
- a physical NGPF Distinguished Educator plaque,
- a digital NGPF Distinguished Educator badge for email signatures, and
- well-earned celebration (as below) on the NGPF website.
Meet the new NGPF Distinguished Educators!
Mike Aday from Hudson Academy (FL)
Heather Beebout from Natrona County High School (WY)
Jackie Brown from Okolona High School (MS)
Meghan Burgin from Morris Hills High School (NJ)
Laura Cummins from Sutton High School (MA)
Eric Dorward from Garden Spot Middle School (PA)
Marc Hua from Preuss School UCSD (CA)
Dawn Kawamura from Burlingame High School (CA)
Dani Larson from Bradshaw Mountain High School (AZ)
Sharon Lutz-Krebill from Montcalm Area Career Center (MI)
Hattie Pellegrino from Massabesic High School (ME)
Melissa Shaffer from Clarkston High School (MI)
Jessica Zarnke from Loyal High School (WI)
These educators are in Distinguished company!
Over 725 teachers have now earned the title of NGPF Distinguished Educator. After successive cohorts of NGPF Certification Courses, NGPF announces the new rounds of Distinguished Educators. Meet them all!
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 34, announced July 2023)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 33, announced June 2023)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 32, announced May 2023)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 31, announced April 2023)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 30, announced February 2023)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 29, announced January 2023)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 28, announced December 2022)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 27, announced November 2022)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 25-26, announced September 2022)
- Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 1-24, announced July 2022)
About the Authors
Christian Sherrill
Former teacher, forever financial education nerd. As NGPF's Director of Growth & Advocacy, Christian is laser-focused on our mission to guarantee all students a rigorous personal finance course before crossing the high school graduation stage. 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.
Hannah Rael
As NGPF's Marketing Communications Manager, Hannah (she/her) helps spread the word about NGPF's mission to improve the financial lives of the next generation of Americans.
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