Breaking Money Silence

Teaching Teens About Money Episode 152 April is Financial Literacy Month. To celebrate, I am interviewing guests all month long who are committed to educating students of all ages on personal finance. In this first episode of the series, I talk to Courtney Poquette, an award-winning high school teacher, about how she creatively educates her students and gets these teens excited about learning more about money management.  Courtney Poquette has been a teacher and advocate for Personal Finance at Winooski High School for the past 15 years. After attending a Vermont State Jump$tart conference, she introduced the first Personal Finance class and has developed a spin-off, Financial Decision Making Class, where students get real money to set up bank accounts and invest. Her advocacy work is now foc