We are gearing up for the school year! Join the PersonalFinanceLab Team for our line-up of webinars to help make the most of out games, simulations, and curriculum in your classroom!
Upcoming Webinars
Stock Game Best Practices For Beginners (Presented by Kevin Smith)
Scheduled Time: Thursday, September 3 at 2:00 PM EDT
This webinar will cover the best ways to use a stock game in your class, aimed at teachers new to teaching investing topics or are using a stock game for the first time.
We will cover “best practice” rules to maximize student engagement, how to use our built-in lessons to help students understand investing concepts (even if you personally are not an investor), and tried-and-true grading rubrics to evaluate students in a stock game project.
Latest Pedagogical Best Practices In Financial Education (Presented by Kevin Smith
Scheduled Time: Thursday, September 10 at 3:00 PM EDT
This is a deep-dive presentation into the “how” and “why” to build effective financial educational resources. The PersonalFinanceLab Director of Product Development will give an inside look into what makes financial lessons “stick” with students, and contrast with easy-to-miss pitfalls that can cause classes and materials fall on deaf ears of students.
Stock Game Best Practices For Advanced Classes (Presented by Kevin Smith)
Scheduled Time: Tuesday, September 15 at 2:00 PM EDT
If you have already set up and run successful stock games in your classes before, this webinar is for you! This will cover advanced class set-up strategies, including weekly deposits (to mimic saving in a retirement account), fractional trading, Sharpe Ratio rankings, collaborative team projects and more!
Getting To Know PersonalFinanceLab – Encore Presentation (Presented By Heloise Frison)
Scheduled Time: Tuesday, September 22 at 11:00 AM EDT
This webinar will introduce both of our simulations to new teachers, with a greater emphasis on teacher resources, lesson plans, and tips for setting your class up for success.
Getting To Know PersonalFinanceLab – Encore Presentation (Presented By Eric Poff)
Scheduled Time: Wednesday, September 30 at 3:00 PM EDT
This webinar is a brief introduction to PersonalFiannceLab’s games and simulations, with a greater emphasis on the games themselves, including our integrated research tools for student engagement.
Designing Financial Education for Generation Alpha (Presented by Kevin Smith)
Scheduled Time: Tuesday, October 6 at 11:00 AM EDT
This webinar covers best practices in financial education to connect to high school students in 2026. Special emphasis is on what’s changed over the last 10 years, and a focus on the current cutting-edge in personal finance learning.
Completed Webinars
August 12 – Getting To Know PersonalFinanceLab (Presented by Eric Poff)
This webinar was a brief introduction to PersonalFinanceLab for first-time teachers, presented by Eric Poff (our account manager covering the West Coast and South).
August 18 – PFinLab New Features for Fall 2026 (Presented by Kevin Smith)
This webinar gave an overview of our improved teacher onboarding, 2026 curriculum updates, and an invitation to our new Financial Life Simulation early test version.
August 25 – Getting To Know PersonalFinanceLab (Presented By Heloise Frison)
This webinar introduced both of our simulations to new teachers, with a greater emphasis on teacher resources, lesson plans, and tips for setting your class up for success.