As the calendar turns from June to July, I wanted to share with you a few of the top posts from the school year just ended. Think of this as a great list to generate some new ideas for your personal finance course or even some after-school activities for the upcoming school year: 

#10: Let's debate a few personal finance topics 

#9: Looking for writing prompts? Here are a few for your personal finance course!

#8: Question of the Day: What percent of people age 75 and older are still working?

#7: Question of the Day: What's the average credit score needed to rent an apartment?

#6: Want to set-up a student-run coffee shop? Here are schools to contact!

#5: Why are soft skills so important in the workplace? 

#4: Activity idea: How to make credit scores engaging

#3: One strategy to keep college costs down: graduate in 4 years

#2: Top 10 Next Gen Personal Finance games & interactives

#1: Looking for a great hands-on budgeting activity? 

Here are a few of my favorites which didn't make the top 10 list but worthy of teacher attention:

• 10 money milestones for parents who want to teach their kids about money would be a great post to share with your students' parents during a back-to-school night to spur parent involvement. 

• Classroom experiment; The Ultimatum Game which we turned into an activity, PLAY: The Ultimatum Game and have used at many of our FinCamps to demonstrate emotional responses to money

• What is bitcoin and how does cryptocurrency work? is a good refresher given that crypto and bitcoin is back in the news and Facebook is getting involved too 

• Writing prompts for weekly journaling in personal finance will help teachers keen on finding ways to get students writing more in the new school year

• How do you teach money values and beliefs? A post from NGPF fellow, Elizabeth Justema tackles this challenging topic with some key resources that she has used in her classroom

• Activity idea: The power of habit which we developed into an activity, Analyze: Change a Bad Financial Habit

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.