Financial Literacy Month
At CEE, every month is Financial Literacy Month, but we’re happy there’s a dedicated month for the rest of the country to celebrate! This April, we have ideas for you on how you can celebrate Financial Literacy Month, whether you’re a teacher, a student, or just want to get financially savvy!
Resources for Educators
The Hidden Costs of Tariffs: What They Mean for Your Wallet
Live Professional Development Webinar
Friday, April 10, 5pm ET
This virtual professional development session will cover what tariffs are and their real-world impact on households. Classroom-ready examples, a student worksheet, and guided discussion questions will be provided to support deeper, more global thinking about trade and consumer behavior.
Social Media Financial Advice: The Good, The Bad, The Bizarre
Live Professional Development Webinar
Monday, April 13, 6pm ET
This live webinar will help teachers address the growing influence of financial advice on social media. Participants will explore what makes advice helpful or unhelpful, with an emphasis on empathy, credibility, and student decision-making. The session is highly practical and focused on immediate classroom use, with examples and strategies teachers can implement right away.
Power Up Your Economics & Personal Finance Instruction with Design Thinking!
Live Professional Development Webinar
Tuesday, April 21, 7pm ET
In this interactive professional development session, teachers will learn how to use “design thinking” as a strategy for teaching personal finance and economics while developing students’ problem-solving and workplace readiness skills.
Financial Fitness for Life
Financial Fitness for Life provides high-quality instructional materials for use with K-12 students. CEE offers a student workbook and teacher guide.
Use these high school level resources to celebrate Financial Literacy Month in your classroom. Focus on a different theme each week–Earning Income, Saving and Investing, Spending and Budgeting, and Managing Credit and Risk–to help students build real-world money skills.
Explore these middle school personal finance resources to engage your students in real-world money lessons. Each week, introduce a new theme–Earning Income, Saving and Investing, Spending and Budgeting, and Managing Credit and Risk–to build smart financial habits early on.
Introduce young learners to essential money concepts with these K-5 personal finance resources. Through fun and interactive lessons, explore key topics like Earning, Saving, Spending, and Sharing to help students develop smart money habits from the start.
CEE’s affiliated network of 180+ organizations educates the educators: providing the curriculum tools, the pedagogical support, and the community of peers that instruct, inspire, and guide. Search for an affiliate in your state to see how they are celebrating Financial Literacy Month.
Take advantage of the more than 150 free activities and lessons provided by CEE’s EconEdLink. Educators of all grade levels can take the stress out of incorporating personal finance into their classrooms by using these thoughtfully created tools.
Resources for Students
Financial Foundations Online Classes
Invest in Girls, a program of CEE, offers courses tailored to teen girls that teach the basics of personal finance, investing, and professional skills. Each course takes place online after school and is free to attend.
Student Advocacy Toolkits
If your state is missing a personal finance requirement as part of your curriculum, we want to help! We have resources created just for students to help make sure you reach the right people and make sure your voices are heard.
Fun Personal Finance Videos
Learn essential personal finance concepts with our fun cartoon videos. Want to know about investing, compound interest, gross domestic product, and more? We’ve got you covered.
Resources for Families
Family Financial Fun Pack
This Family-At-Home Financial Fun Pack is a curated set of materials well suited for families to enjoy at home together. Explore family activities, games, worksheets, and suggested books for children or adults.
Personal Finance Printables
Great activities to do as a family! Our personal finance activity sheets include free downloadable handouts for parents to teach K-5 students financial topics using sing-a-longs, matching, drawings, and more.
Are You Smarter Than a National Personal Finance Challenge Finalist?
Finalists in CEE’s National Personal Finance Challenge answer 20 rapid-fire questions on topics ranging from mortgage discount points to 401(k) matches. The Wall Street Journal turned previous final rounds into an interactive quiz.
Personal Finance in the News
Personal Finance Challenge Finalists Interviewed on ABC
Students from across the country are competing in their state competitions to qualify for CEE’s National Personal Finance Challenge in June. New York students from Francis Lewis High School had a chance to celebrate their success in the spotlight after winning the New York State Finance Challenge.
CEE's Survey of the States Making Headlines
The latest results from CEE’s 2026 Survey of the States are grabbing attention of national outlets like The Wall Street Journal. This article highlights key findings from the Survey of the States and what they mean for students across the country.