Life skills are necessary for every stage of life. The same way toddlers need to learn gross motor skills, teens need to prepare for their adult life. As such, we create courses that keep this cycle positive and students passionate about learning.

Our courses are comprehensive and integrated to give students all the skills they need to live fulfilling lives. Life is tough enough — but we can help make it easier.


Summary of Course
The average American is $90,000 in debt. The most common of those debts are credit cards. In this course, students will learn what the difference is between good, bad, and ugly debt. Knowing how to differentiate between good and bad debt is a valuable skill, and it's one you need in order to reach financial independence.

Scope and Sequence
What is Debt?
Good debt
Bad debt
Ugly debt

Standards
#1: Integrate 21st century skills into core academic subject standards. Each subject area should be treated differently, with an eye for thoughtful and authentic ways to incorporate skills like critical thinking, problem solving, communication, information literacy and technology literacy into the standard.

#2: Integrate 21st century themes into core subject area standards, where appropriate. Global awareness, financial literacy, health literacy and civic literacy are all requirements in the 21st century and should be intentionally integrated into state standards wherever possible.

#3: Make standards inch-wide and mile-deep. Rather than presenting a long list of facts, standards should communicate the essential understandings, or habits of mind, within each subject area. Typical state standards attempt to cover a content area so comprehensively, the essential concepts that produce deep mastery can become lost.

Objectives
Students will be able to:
Define good, bad, and ugly debt
Differentiate between good, bad, and ugly debt
Create a snowball effect debt tracker
 
Differentiated Instruction
Inquiry-based learning
Self-directed learning
Journal writing
Goal-setting