Living It™ helps students connect career choices, income, lifestyle, and real-world decisions through engaging experiences.
Living It™ brings these initiatives together through one comprehensive system.
Instead of teaching financial literacy as a stand-alone topic, students learn how career choices, income, spending decisions, and future goals work together to shape their lives.
A student discovers a career aligned to their strengths and interests. Then they face the same choices millions of adults make every day.
Discover strengths, interests, and career opportunities.
Understand income, expenses, and lifestyle trade-offs.
Choose housing, transportation, and more.
Experience unexpected events and tough financial decisions.
Make informed, responsible, future-ready decisions.
✓ Every decision impacts their budget.
✓ Every choice creates trade-offs.
✓ Every consequence becomes a lesson.
Before students can manage money, they need to understand where it comes from.
Students explore:
Students begin connecting future aspirations to realistic earning potential and career pathways.
Students learn how everyday financial decisions impact long-term success.
Students explore:
Students begin connecting future aspirations to realistic earning potential and career pathways.
The signature experience students never forget:
Because life is not about avoiding every mistake. It's about learning how to make better decisions.
Ready-to-use lessons and resources covering:
No curriculum writing.
No resource hunting.
No starting from scratch.
Simply implement and teach.
Everything needed to create an unforgettable financial literacy experience.
Includes:
Most programs provide resources. Living It™ provides resources and community.
Members receive:
Because successful implementation should never happen in isolation.
Strengthen relationships with:
Turn financial literacy into a community-wide investment in student success.
Living It™ was built through a collaborative process that included research, instructional design, grant writing, classroom implementation, and direct student feedback. The result is a program that has been tested, refined, and built alongside the educators and communities it serves.
Provided the grant funding that made the pilot implementation and evaluation of Living It™ possible.
Built through research, partnership, student testing, and continuous refinement.
Living It™ was built through a collaborative process that included research, instructional design, grant writing, classroom implementation, and direct student feedback. The result is a program that has been tested, refined, and built alongside the educators and communities it serves.
rated their experience 4 or 5 stars
realized how quickly money can disappear
reported the game changed the way they think about money
identified budgeting or saving as the most important topic
felt the “Life Happens” moments were realistic
After completing Surviving the Month: Money Mayhem™, we asked students what surprised them, what they learned, and whether the experience changed how they think about money.
“One thing I learned about money today is...”
Students reflected on what they learned from the experience.
It can disappear quickly.
Have self-control when impulse spending.
To save your money and don’t just buy anything.
“What was your FAVORITE part of the experience?”
Students shared what made the day meaningful and memorable.
Being able to visually see where the money was going.
Learning how to make financial decisions.
“Did this game change the way you think about money?”
Students shared how the experience affected their thinking.
I would think more about the future.
Real-World Learning. Real Impact.
Join the first 25 districts shaping the future of LivingIt™
Includes full access to the Living It™ curriculum, educator network, implementation resources, and Surviving the Month: Money Mayhem™ experience.
I'M INAvailable for districts enrolling five or more educators.
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Credit unions, banks, businesses, foundations, and community organizations can help expand access to financial literacy and career readiness experiences.
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Will they learn them in a safe environment where mistakes become lessons?
OR
Will they learn them later when the consequences are real?
Get started today before this once in a lifetime opportunity expires.
