Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
Innovation Central: Personal Finance Fall 2025
All students must complete a project for these classes.
Instructor: Tammy Vanderweide
Email: tamvanderw89@gmail.com
Phone: (269) 982-9721
Grades: 3-12
Day & Time: Tuesday, 11am-12pm
Dates: Sept. 2 - Dec. 16
Location: Innovation Central at Lakeside Family Church, 6999 Red Arrow Highway, Stevensville
Course Description: The NGPF course will help students build core personal finance skills and learn real-world strategies to effectively manage their personal finances. Topics include decision making, budgeting, saving, consumer skills, preparing for their future and more.
By the end of this course, students will have a basic understanding of personal finance topics and a foundation in the skills necessary to successfully navigate the financial responsibilities that exist in life.
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Lisa Van Plew-Cid
