56-How You Can Use NGPF to Fill Your Financial Literacy Toolbox with Kathey Hatfield

<p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•    Well, I am an NGPF guru and my official title, I'm an NGPF fellow, meaning that I have the opportunity to be one of a small select group, the first year about costs been like four years ago, to attend a completely expense-free, almost week-long workshop hosted by NGPF to share their materials, to show what they have to offer. And then their goal for us was to share this information with our colleagues and others, and next generation personal finance. (3:45)</p><p>•   Basically you take a test, and if you pass with a certain percentage, you earn the badge. And what was great about it is not only did you get the content knowledge, but you learned how to use their curriculum in that particular unit and got to share and be a small group with other educators across the state,  sharing ideas and so forth. (9:36)</p><p>•   I love seeing the questions that are posted and then if I comment on any of them, then all of a sudden I'm part of all those notifications that I get, and it really is, it's sometimes overwhelming with the amount of feedback, but I swear you're able to sift through all of that feedback and be able to say, Okay, this applies to me, or you could follow that thread, if it's proving to be like, Okay, I got what I needed and... Yeah, absolutely, they are. It's such a community, and that's something that I have to say, that's the reason why I love Facebook so much being part of so many various groups is because of that community because... Yeah, who wants to recreate the wheel? (12:41)</p><p>• When you get approved to have an account through NGPF, they will send you a link for the Answer Keys, and I just pin that email to the top of my email list and it'll be there… I have noticed that recently, some of the assignments as you download them will have a link immediately to the answer key, so I think that might be a change over that we're doing… Do you have that? So most of the things are Google Docs, so if you use Google docs, you're able to access everything or you c