Background
Chad began his career in education at Landmark School in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. While there, he developed a unit on personal finance for an integrated math course with high school seniors in mind. At the heart of this unit was a spreadsheet budget that each student had to create and maintain. Students arrived at income and expense values by making decisions around a future occupation and location of their choosing.
After the birth of their first child, Chad and his wife, Missy, moved back to their home state of Maine and were both hired to teach at Noble High School in the town of North Berwick. During his time at Noble, Chad helped to transform a stale senior topics math class into a full-fledged personal finance class, using his original material from Landmark as a first building block. Units were refined and standardized, and the budgeting project was tuned to incorporate each of the units of study. Over the span of a decade, his personal finance class (simply titled “PATHS” after the now-defunct senior topics course title) grew in both scope and popularity. Better than one-half of Noble High School's seniors are enrolled in PATHS, and feedback from students, teachers, parents and administrators has been overwhelmingly positive.
It is Chad's hope that PATHS Personal Finance Education can support American high schools in launching a personal finance course of their own, or for schools with a program already in place, offer a source for supplementary materials to round out a developing curriculum. The ideal PATHS teacher is an energetic and creative educator having a bit of personal finance savvy and a firm handle on the instruction of basic high school mathematics; the ideal school is yours!
After the birth of their first child, Chad and his wife, Missy, moved back to their home state of Maine and were both hired to teach at Noble High School in the town of North Berwick. During his time at Noble, Chad helped to transform a stale senior topics math class into a full-fledged personal finance class, using his original material from Landmark as a first building block. Units were refined and standardized, and the budgeting project was tuned to incorporate each of the units of study. Over the span of a decade, his personal finance class (simply titled “PATHS” after the now-defunct senior topics course title) grew in both scope and popularity. Better than one-half of Noble High School's seniors are enrolled in PATHS, and feedback from students, teachers, parents and administrators has been overwhelmingly positive.
It is Chad's hope that PATHS Personal Finance Education can support American high schools in launching a personal finance course of their own, or for schools with a program already in place, offer a source for supplementary materials to round out a developing curriculum. The ideal PATHS teacher is an energetic and creative educator having a bit of personal finance savvy and a firm handle on the instruction of basic high school mathematics; the ideal school is yours!