Our Mission
A Symptom of Our Problems
The average Canadian owns 2.6 credit cards, yet close to 30% of Canadians do not consistently pay their credit card balance in full.
Our mission is to promote financial literacy in high schools by stimulating students’ interest in financial literacy and encouraging personal financial responsibility. We hope that future graduates will have a basic financial background that gives them confidence to face financial challenges that await. Financial decisions are inevitable in all of our lives, and so we believe that every youth should be taught the necessary skills to manage these decisions early in life.
Through conversations with both the education and business community, we recognized two problems. There are not many good teaching resources available and students are not stimulated by materials presented currently. We decided that the best way to start is to develop a short 6 lesson unit of study for Planning 10 that is relevant, fun, practical, and easy to use. Through this, we hope to provide a convenient resource to teachers so they can engage students in learning financial concepts. Once inspired to learn, students can learn more on their own. We want to get youth started on a road to better financial literacy.
