Teachers can earn NGPF's Distinguished Educator award - complete with a digital badge, a beautiful plaque, recognition on the NGPF website, and lifetime bragging rights - by completing 6 or more NGPF Certification Courses. Today we honor the 18 excellent educators who have newly earned this recognition after Cohort 30!

What is the NGPF Distinguished Educator Award?

Teachers, we are in awe of the lengths you go to make your classrooms the most vibrant learning environments possible for your students. You pursue your daily mission with humility: to prepare the next generation for lifetimes of success - financial and otherwise - is no laughing matter. It's serious business befitting of serious recognition.

You're awesome. You're heroic. Dare we say... you're Distinguished!

The NGPF Distinguished Educator award is one of the ways our team recognizes you for your outstanding commitment to professional development in service of your mission. Simply put: complete 6 or more 10-hour Certification Courses with NGPF (including passing the end of course exam for each course), and you become an NGPF Distinguished Educator.

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

• a beautiful physical plaque for your classroom,
• a striking digital badge for your email, and
• well-earned recognition (as below) on the NGPF website.

Meet the NEW Distinguished Educators!

Kimra Balliet from The Cottonwood School (CA)

Carey Barzeski from McDowell High School (PA)

Becky Belnap from Syracuse High School (UT)

Barbara Besal from First Colonial High School (VA)

Jeffrey Charles from Wilbur Cross High School (CT)

Jacqueline Gronwald from Lucy Ragsdale High School (NC)

Michelle Kesselman from Franklin High School (CA)

Karen Kurtz from Westhill High School (CT)

Kelly Matthews from Steele Elementary School (CO)

Tyler McCubbin from Webster City High School (IA)

Jennifer Olsen from Vernal, UT

Sharon Paul from Hayfield Secondary School (VA)

Annmarie Santini from Laurel Middle-High School (PA)

Carole Scheerbaum from Lee Day Report Correctional Center (WV)

Jeremy Stedry from Hemlock Middle School (MI)

Elyse Tenzer from Scarsdale Middle School (NY)

Sagar Tolani from South Division High School (WI)

Kathy Vojnovski from St. Clair High School (MI)

• 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)

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.