College, Careers, & Cash
The College, Careers, & Cash program is a financial empowerment curriculum designed to help Delaware students envision and plan for their future. This program is being implemented at selected schools; contact your local high school to determine their level of engagement.
Stand By Me : NexGen’s College, Careers, & Cash program offers interconnected financial empowerment instruction that builds a continuum of financial literacy education for high school students in 9th and 10th grade that will successfully put them on the pathway to post-secondary education and careers. These custom-designed curricula consist of interactive and engaging classroom workshops to help students understand the connection between making good career and financial decisions and being successful, independent adult consumers.
Program goals:
- Connect the dots between career pathways, post-secondary education, and lifestyle
- Integrate financial literacy into existing school curriculum to build an understanding of how much money is needed to support lifestyle goals
- Demonstrate the connections between higher education and career opportunities
- Build a continuum for high school students starting in 9th grade that puts them on the pathway to post-secondary education
- Engage school faculty, staff, and administration to work in partnership with this project
Grade 9: Explore
At the conclusion of CCC: Explore, students will be able to:
- Develop a personal mission statement
- Describe occupations of interest as potential careers
- Determine which post-secondary options best fit their career plans
- Identify school staff who can provide guidance on post-secondary options
- Explain the reasons for and outcomes of working
- Contrast needs versus wants when making financial decisions
- Formulate a plan for saving money for large purchases or expenses
- Classify various banking and financial products and services
Grade 10: Envision
At the conclusion of CCC: Envision, students will be able to:
- Describe their desired lifestyle in 10 years’ time
- Associate educational attainment, employability, and earning potential
- Identify an occupation of interest and its base details, including:
- Educational requirements
- Median and entry-level pay
- Job growth
- Tasks performed
- Give examples of qualities required for an occupation of interest
- Develop a budget for tracking earnings and expenses
- Explain the concept of credit and its impact on their finances
What Students Are Saying About CCC
“The most important thing I learned was how much it really costs to live on your own. If you want to have a nice lifestyle, then you have to have a great education to achieve that goal.”
“I learned a lot about finance, education, and professions that I could go into after participating in College, Careers, & Cash.”
“I learned how to budget both actively and predicatively and how to manage the breakdown of a monthly income.”
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