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Teach Personal Finance
With Confidence

Access a standards-aligned personal finance curriculum, monitor classroom progress, deliver in-app assessments, and automatically collect student grades.

All while students build real-world money skills through an engaging high school financial literacy experience.
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Teach Personal Finance

Everything educators need to teach personal finance with more confidence

Teachers are being asked to deliver high school financial literacy in more schools than ever, but many are also balancing limited prep time, mixed student readiness, and changing graduation requirements. Rapunzl is built to reduce that friction with a classroom system that combines standards-aligned lessons, teacher-facing resources, and hands-on student practice.

Whether you already teach personal finance or you are being asked to lead it for the first time, Rapunzl gives you a clearer path from lesson planning to instruction, assessment, and student engagement.

Teach even without a finance background

Rapunzl is designed for educators who need strong support materials, not just topic lists.

  • Teacher guides and ready-to-use lesson assets
  • Clear pacing across personal finance, investing, and financial math topics
  • Built-in resources that help teachers spend less time creating materials from scratch

Keep students engaged

Students learn personal finance more effectively when the content feels connected to real decisions and real outcomes.

  • Interactive simulator experiences tied to classroom instruction
  • Real-world scenarios involving saving, spending, credit, and investing
  • Course structures that make financial literacy feel active instead of passive

Track progress without extra busywork

Rapunzl supports instruction and visibility at the same time, so teachers can focus more on teaching and less on manual reporting.

  • In-app assessments and grade collection
  • Classroom monitoring tools for daily implementation
  • Cleaner reporting for teachers, schools, and district teams

Personal Finance Courses
For Any Classroom

Financial Math
Personal Finance
College & Careers
Advanced Investing
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Personal Finance

Grades 6-12th
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~90 Hours of Content
Learn fundamental principles of personal finance, including saving, investing, credit management, and financial decision-making, to build a strong financial foundation.

Topics Covered:

Budgeting
Saving
Taxes
Banking
Credit
Loans
Investing
Managing Risk
Insurance
Retirement

Available Resources:

In-Depth Lesson Plans

Accompanying Teacher Guides

Presentations Accessible Via PDF & Google Slides

Interactive Activities & Articles

Integrated Multiple Choice Assessments

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All curriculum content is available in English and Spanish and hosted through Google Cloud. This ensures all content is screen reader accessible and easy to integrate with existing classroom technology.
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White-Glove Service,
All-Year Round

We recognize that personal finance can feel daunting and challenges this creates when implementing a personal finance program.

That's why we leverage our years of teaching in classrooms to provide professional development for teachers, offer in-depth teacher pacing guides, and routinely check-in with educators throughout the school year.
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Verifiable Certifications, Ready for the Real World

Every Rapunzl certification is a verifiable, blockchain-secured digital credential, making it easy for students to prove their achievements to colleges, employers, and scholarship programs. Students can instantly share their certifications on LinkedIn, download official certificates for resumes, and provide verified links for college applications.

This ensures that students’ hard work is recognized with credentials that carry real weight in academic and professional settings.
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Detailed Step-By-Step Presentation Guides

Rapunzl offers detailed step-by-step teacher guides that include engagement prompts and leading questions, making it easier for anyone to facilitate dynamic and interactive lessons.

These comprehensive personal finance and investing resources ensure teachers can effectively guide students through complex financial concepts while encouraging critical thinking and active participation.

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Upload a CSV or XLSX file to the Educator Dashboard with students first name, last name, and school email. We'll create their accounts, add them to a classroom, and share login details.
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Pre-Built Courses
Access pre-built financial education courses that range from 3-week activities to 14-week, semester-long programs.
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Monitor Student Engagement
Track students' performance, see what stocks they’re buying and selling, and how often they engage with the Rapunzl platform.
Customizable with Rapunzl Educator Dashboard
Fully Customizable
Incorporate external modules, modify sequencing, update assessments, and amend any course for your class.
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Collect & Track Grades
Create customized quiz assessments from our question library, delivered through the Rapunzl platform.
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Control Your Class Data
Export grades and standards-alignment crosswalks for easy grading, transparency & accountability.
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Gamified Learning To Increase Personal Finance Engagement

Gamification enhances student engagement by transforming classrooms into interactive learning experiences, and provides an opportunity for building financial financial through self-directed learning.

This increases student motivation by fostering a deeper understanding of subjects with hands-on activities and a real-time investment simulator, aiding in the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
High School Financial Literacy

A practical high school financial literacy program, not just a collection of lessons

Strong financial literacy instruction needs more than good content. It also needs flexible pacing, clear assessments, and implementation support that works across different classrooms. Rapunzl helps schools create a stronger personal finance experience without forcing every teacher to build the course alone.

Flexible enough for different classroom models

  • Use Rapunzl as a semester course, unit sequence, intervention support, or enrichment resource
  • Adapt to business, economics, math, advisory, or CTE settings
  • Support middle school introduction or high school graduation pathways

Built for standards and accountability

  • Align instruction to national and state financial literacy standards
  • Support schools responding to graduation requirement changes
  • Give educators clearer evidence of student learning and course progress

Connected to real student outcomes

  • Students practice financial decision-making instead of only reading about it
  • Teachers can connect lessons to savings, credit, investing, and career readiness
  • The program helps make personal finance more relevant and memorable
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Rapunzl's curriculum is hosted through Google Cloud

This ensures that Rapunzl's personal finance curriculum is accessible for every educator and student by leveraging Google's suite of accessibility features.
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What Teachers Are Saying About Rapunzl

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Rapunzl has been a game-changer for my students since I started using it in 2019.

I can provide hands-on experience with real-world learning, bringing economic theories to life and enabling students to see the immediate impact of market changes while learning discipline in a risk-free environment.
Joshua Levine
CTE & Business Teacher
New Utrecht High School

New York City, NY
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Rapunzl was an amazing resource when teaching my personal finance unit.

My learners loved the interactive stock market simulation and still check their portfolios a month after concluding the unit. The activities regarding the basics of investing were incredibly helpful to get students engaged.
Christine Ward
Social Sciences & Civics Teacher
Northern Cass High School

Fargo, ND
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Integrating Rapunzl into our curriculum has sparked renewed interest in math among my students and provide a risk-free way to teach about investing.

It's been really helpful to bridge the gap between theory and practical skills by showing the real-world relevance of math skills.
Benjamin Craig
Mathematics Teacher
Mather High School

Chicago, IL
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Get In Touch With Rapunzl

Interested in financial literacy but not sure where to begin? Perhaps you have a specific question about Rapunzl’s curriculum or are currently exploring best-practices for implementing financial education in the classroom.

Whatever the reason, we’d love to connect and share our insights after spending over 1,000 hours teaching financial education in high schools across the country.

Book a call, drop us a note and let’s connect.