Grades 9–12 | Ages 14–18 | 36 Weeks | 12 Units | 1 Elective Credit
Retire a Millionaire! is a full-year, hands-on financial education course that helps high school students understand how wealth is actually built, one decision, one dollar, and one year at a time. Rather than treating personal finance as a collection of vocabulary words and worksheets, this course challenges students to think, calculate, investigate, compare, plan, and make financial decisions for themselves.
Throughout 36 weeks of learning, students explore the principles behind saving, investing, compound growth, risk, financial decision-making, and long-term wealth building. The central question is wonderfully simple: Could an ordinary person really retire a millionaire? Students spend the year discovering that the answer depends less on luck or a giant paycheck and more on time, consistency, knowledge, behavior, and the choices they make along the way.
The course integrates Personal Finance, Economics, Math, Business, and Character Education, allowing students to see money as more than numbers in an account. They investigate the mathematics of growing wealth, examine investment choices, consider risk and reward, and explore how habits and decisions made during the teenage and young-adult years can ripple across decades.
The goal is not to tell students exactly what to do with their money. It is to give them the tools to ask better questions, evaluate opportunities, understand the numbers, recognize risk, and make informed financial choices.
Retire a Millionaire! gives educators a ready-to-use framework for teaching a subject that can otherwise feel enormous. Personal finance touches mathematics, economics, investing, careers, business, psychology, and real life. This course brings those pieces together into one cohesive 36-week, 12-unit learning experience.
The Facilitator Guide and Student Workbook are designed to work together, making the course useful for homeschool parents, co-ops, microschools, traditional classrooms, enrichment programs, and independent high school learners. Educators can guide students through meaningful financial concepts without needing to be investment professionals themselves.
It is especially useful for educators looking for a course that:
Connects math to real-world financial decisions
Introduces investing and wealth building in an age-appropriate way
Encourages students to analyze rather than simply memorize
Integrates personal finance with economics, business, and character
Promotes long-term thinking, patience, responsibility, and intentional decision-making
Gives high school students practical knowledge they can carry directly into adulthood
Provides a structured full-year elective course without requiring the educator to build a financial literacy curriculum from scratch
Ultimately, Retire a Millionaire! is not simply a course about becoming a millionaire. It is a course about understanding how money works and learning to make thoughtful decisions with it. Students leave with something more valuable than a hypothetical investment portfolio: a foundation for approaching their financial future with knowledge, confidence, patience, and purpose.
Grades 9–12 | Ages 14–18 | 36 Weeks | 12 Units | 1 Elective Credit
Retire a Millionaire! is a full-year, hands-on financial education course that helps high school students understand how wealth is actually built, one decision, one dollar, and one year at a time. Rather than treating personal finance as a collection of vocabulary words and worksheets, this course challenges students to think, calculate, investigate, compare, plan, and make financial decisions for themselves.
Throughout 36 weeks of learning, students explore the principles behind saving, investing, compound growth, risk, financial decision-making, and long-term wealth building. The central question is wonderfully simple: Could an ordinary person really retire a millionaire? Students spend the year discovering that the answer depends less on luck or a giant paycheck and more on time, consistency, knowledge, behavior, and the choices they make along the way.
The course integrates Personal Finance, Economics, Math, Business, and Character Education, allowing students to see money as more than numbers in an account. They investigate the mathematics of growing wealth, examine investment choices, consider risk and reward, and explore how habits and decisions made during the teenage and young-adult years can ripple across decades.
The goal is not to tell students exactly what to do with their money. It is to give them the tools to ask better questions, evaluate opportunities, understand the numbers, recognize risk, and make informed financial choices.
Retire a Millionaire! gives educators a ready-to-use framework for teaching a subject that can otherwise feel enormous. Personal finance touches mathematics, economics, investing, careers, business, psychology, and real life. This course brings those pieces together into one cohesive 36-week, 12-unit learning experience.
The Facilitator Guide and Student Workbook are designed to work together, making the course useful for homeschool parents, co-ops, microschools, traditional classrooms, enrichment programs, and independent high school learners. Educators can guide students through meaningful financial concepts without needing to be investment professionals themselves.
It is especially useful for educators looking for a course that:
Connects math to real-world financial decisions
Introduces investing and wealth building in an age-appropriate way
Encourages students to analyze rather than simply memorize
Integrates personal finance with economics, business, and character
Promotes long-term thinking, patience, responsibility, and intentional decision-making
Gives high school students practical knowledge they can carry directly into adulthood
Provides a structured full-year elective course without requiring the educator to build a financial literacy curriculum from scratch
Ultimately, Retire a Millionaire! is not simply a course about becoming a millionaire. It is a course about understanding how money works and learning to make thoughtful decisions with it. Students leave with something more valuable than a hypothetical investment portfolio: a foundation for approaching their financial future with knowledge, confidence, patience, and purpose.
