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The College Project Teacher’s Guide

Fifth Edition. The full companion for teaching The College Project in your classroom. A Kickoff session plus 19 chapters, with everything you need to plan and run the course: lesson flows, exit tickets, standards alignment, pacing guides, and rubrics.

58 pages · PDF · Free for classroom use, no sign-up required

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What’s inside

  1. Kickoff session. A ready-to-run opener that sets up the semester before Chapter 1.

  2. 19 chapter lesson flows. Step-by-step teaching sequences matched to the student book.

  3. Exit tickets. A quick formative check for every chapter, ready to project or print.

  4. Standards alignment. Chapter-by-chapter mapping to relevant academic standards.

  5. Pacing guides. Suggested timing for a full semester or a condensed course.

  6. Rubrics. Scoring guides for the book's reflection and project-based work.

  7. Choose Your Format appendix. The six formats of The College Project and how to pick by the time and setting you have.

Evaluating this for your school or district?

This guide covers The College Project specifically. If you’re building the case for personal finance more broadly, these are the three things that usually settle it: the standards mapping, the pilot results, and the classroom experience itself.

See the AB 2927 standards mapping See the pilot results Open the teacher demo

Ordering copies for your class?

Schools can order The College Project student book in bulk at a discount off Amazon’s retail price. Every copy funds The Finance Lab’s mission, and the Scholarship Tier turns a portion of each order into on-site scholarships for students in your class.

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