Online program provides professional development opportunity, including film about the state of financial literacy education in Vermont
Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College’s Center for Financial Literacy has extended its free personal finance education program for educators and the public until April 30. The program launched in late 2025 and is a success. Recent regulatory proposals moved the Center to extend the online seminar for another four months.
Participants will learn how to more successfully implement the personal finance education standards and obtain free curriculum tools that may be used with the intention to implement personal finance education in the classroom.
Act 73 requires the Secretary of Education and the State Board of Education to recommend statewide graduation standards for Vermont by January 1, 2026. As a result, the Secretary recommended that each Vermont public high school student take a minimum of one half-credit in a standalone personal finance course prior to graduation.
If this recommendation is approved by the Vermont State Board of Education, it will take effect with the Class of 2031 (for 9th graders entering high school in 2027). Vermont would join 30 other states that already have this substantive graduation requirement.
Vermont’s 52 supervisory unions currently decide what their graduation standards should be, but this balkanized approach to what a Vermont high school diploma means will change with this new law.
Given this new development, Vermont educators and the general public should take advantage of this this free professional development opportunity.
Developed with a grant from EastRise Credit Union and an anonymous donation, the program provides a snapshot of the state of financial education in Vermont, as well as tools and resources for educators to integrate financial literacy in the classroom.
Educators and interested members of the public are welcome to attend online, and educators can earn up to eight hours of professional development credit from the Champlain Center. To register for the Vermont Financial Literacy Academy, click here.
The program features interviews with known subject matter experts, such as Vermont State Treasurer Mike Pieciak, Vermont Education Secretary Zoie Saunders, co-founder of NextGen Personal Finance Tim Ranzetta, and other national experts.
2.2.2026. Burlington, VT - Champlain College
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