Plaques, email badges, and infinite recognition for 21 teachers after the 32nd NGPF Certification Course cohort. Register for your next NGPF Certification Course to get one step closer to your own Distinguished Educator plaque!

What is the NGPF Distinguished Educator Award?

Teachers deserve recognition, respect, and honor. The NGPF Distinguished Educator award is one of the ways NGPF recognizes teachers' gargantuan efforts to empower students with life-changing personal finance skills. Teachers who pass 6 or more 10-hour NGPF Certification Courses become NGPF Distinguished Educators!

All teachers are eligible for this lifetime award, which comes with great bonuses:

• 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 Distinguished Educators!

Juana Andrade Batalla from Madison Senior High School (ID)

Allison Auten from Great Bridge High School (VA)

Elisabeth Cason from Bossier Parish Community College (LA)

Bianca DiIorio from Fairfield Ludlowe High School (CT)

Savannah Diroff from Lutheran High School Westland (MI)

Jackie Esker from Westhill High School (CT)

Joshua Fisher from Astoria Senior High School (OR)

Steven Graves from West Boca Raton High School (FL)

Carrie Hixon from Mustang High School (OK)

Sheila Howard from University of Dallas (TX)

Karen Joyner-Washington from W. R. Rogers Center (SC)

Ericka Lamb, At Home in the Lowcountry HSA

Jodi Leimkuehler from Solon High School (IA)

Angela McGregor from Flexible Innovative Virtual Education (SC)

Joey Nunn from Mountain View High School (GA)

Katherine Schmid from Boylan Catholic High School (IL)

Frank Serbeniuk from Success One Charter School (CA)

Elaina Siegel from Indian River High School (VA)

Autumn Sprys from Shaler Area High School (PA)

Jill Thompson from Kelly Walsh High School (WY)

Kerry Thompson from Mascenic Regional High School (NH)

• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 1-24, announced July 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 25-26, announced September 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 27, announced November 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 28, announced December 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 29, announced January 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 30, announced February 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 31, announced April 2023)

About the Author

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.

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