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Enter your username or your last known email for your account on the next page, and follow the instructions on the automated email you receive.

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Take Charge Today will usually validate your account within 24 hours. Once Take Charge Today validates your account, you should receive an email with a link to follow for directions on how to login. If you do not receive this email, a firewall may have blocked it and you will need to contact us.

There may be. It could be the result of an error in the security setting when the usernames were transferred to the new website. Please contact Take Charge Today if you are having trouble with the files. Make sure you are logged in to the website before searching or attempting to download resources.

No. Please do not create multiple accounts. You may need to reset your password or contact us to be sure you are using the correct username. Login is case sensitive.

Follow these directions:

1. Click on “My Dashboard”.
2. Click on the “Edit Profile” tab underneath the Welcome heading.
3. Scroll down to the information needing updating.
   • You will be able to change all your personal information from this page.
4. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page

We have a page specifically designed to assist new Take Charge Today users. Please review the Curriculum Design page to learn about the large amount of resources Take Charge Today offers.

That is completely up to you! You may follow the lesson plan word for word if you choose; however, you may deviate from the lesson plan to make it fit the unique needs of you and your students. Take Charge Today lesson plans are designed to have options and to be flexible and adaptable to different classrooms. Add in additional discussion questions, add an Active Learning Tool to help review content, or simply change the facilitation by using the information sheet instead of the PowerPoint. The possibilities are endless. We always tell educators that if you are giving your students the important concepts within financial education then you are doing it right!

Take Charge Today has different curriculum types that were developed with specific age groups in mind. The Introductory Level curriculum is intended for grades 7-9. The Advanced Level curriculum is intended for grades 10-12 or young adults with limited personal finance knowledge. Both curriculum types can be used to adapt to specific classroom needs. The curriculum types are also explained and linked on the Curriculum Design webpage.

Take Charge Today has several pages that will help you fully understand all of the resources available and assist you. Visit the Course Guide page for more information.

The Lesson Library Advanced Search feature can also be used to determine resources available. Use the Lesson Library to search keywords or by specific fields!

Take Charge Today offers Course Guides for many different course lengths, including two-week, nine-week, and year-long courses.

Yes! Each lesson plan that Take Charge Today has on the website has been tested in a classroom before we release it to the public. We provide our educator team members with the lesson plans, and they provide feedback and evaluations. Then, the Take Charge Today leadership team makes corrections, implements suggestions, and gives it back to classroom teachers to test again. We do not release the lesson plan to the public until it has been tested several times from a variety of individuals in a diverse setting of classrooms.

Yes! We have taken our Student Workbook pages and made them interactive PDF files. The PDF files have text boxes where students may type their responses, save, and submit! Download the interactive worksheets for anylesson plan. If you are posting these files for students to access, they MUST be posted on a secure school server or password protected website. *Be sure to download the latest version of Adobe Reader at http://get.adobe.com/reader/. View the Copyright Message if you have any questions regarding posting student materials on secure websites.

Additionally, you can find all of our student workbooks in Google as well.

Take Charge Today strives to provide educators with current, up-to-date lesson plans, and wants to encourage educators to download the new and improved versions of lesson plans.

The Take Charge Today curriculum is FREE! Download all of the lesson plans, answer keys, PowerPoints, etc., for no cost! Although the lessons are free to download and use, there are many different options for facilitation in each lesson plan and some include a variety of materials that may be used to enhance your course. These may include markers or “art” supplies for certain conclusion options, or a movie or game from our Active Learning Tools. The top of every lesson plan lists the supplies needed and some are found outside of the Take Charge Today website.

Take Charge Today is constantly updating curriculum materials so check out the date at the bottom of the curriculum material to see when the resource was updated. You may need to re-download the updated lesson plan. Or, there may be a mistake we don’t know about, so let us know!

The Take Charge curriculum is not aligned to individual state standards. The curriculum is aligned to several national standards though and the crosswalks can be found on the Standards page.

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We ask that you do not post an entire Take Charge Today lesson plan or the materials meant for only educator use on another website, even if it is a secure website. The Take Charge Today curriculum is continually updated based upon industry trends and educator feedback, and each person’s account on the Take Charge Today website tracks what curriculum they have downloaded. Therefore, it is important that individuals download lesson plans from the Take Charge Today website using their own account to be sure they are accessing the most up-to-date materials. However, it is ok to post live URL links to the desired lesson plan download page on the Take Charge Today website. That way the site doesn’t have to be searched to find the desired materials.

Please do not post answer keys on unsecure websites. Students can access those in Google searches.

View the Copyright Message if you have any questions regarding posting materials on other websites.

All Take Charge Today lesson plans are thoroughly reviewed and tested before being released to the public. Therefore, if you find many formatting issues within a PowerPoint presentation, this is most likely caused by using different versions of Microsoft PowerPoint or when it was uploaded to Google. If there is only one formatting error, then there is a possibility that it is an error that needs to be fixed by Take Charge Today. In this case, email the Take Charge Today team at takechargetoday@arizona.edu indicating the lesson plan number and the slide containing the error.

Take Charge Today strives to provide the most up-to-date, correct materials to educators. If you believe you have found an error on a lesson plan, please email the Take Charge Today staff at takechargetoday@arizona.edu explaining the error and the specific place it was found.

Take Charge Today offers a wide variety of free or low-cost professional development opportunities for educators including trainings, webinars, newsletter, and online communities. View the Professional Development page for a list of professional development opportunities and how to get involved!

No. All Take Charge Today webinars are archived in the Webinar section of the Take Charge Today website and on our YouTube. You can view the recorded videos anytime. A list of all available webinars as well as upcoming webinars is included on the Webinar page.

This position is only available as needed and educators are selected in a highly competitive process. More information can be found on our Educator page.

If you will be conducting a multi-day training, please partner with Take Charge Today to ensure all training information is accurate. If conducting a round-table presentation or small workshop, we do have materials to support you! Contact us for help.