Toolkit

Guardian volunteer hub for classroom connect visits

Helpful background information

Guardian partnered with Everfi to build Minding Your Money: Skills for Life™, a first-of-its-kind financial wellness curriculum that addresses the intersections of personal finances, relationships, and health and that helps young people learn lasting financial habits before they enter adulthood.

Teachers who have access to the curriculum, can also request a volunteer from Guardian to connect with their class(es) and expand upon the digital lessons. While the capability for teachers to request a volunteer, such as yourself, is called classroom connect, we encourage you to refer to your volunteer experience as a classroom visit when speaking with teachers or students.

This page contains the resources you will need to successfully complete the classroom visit(s).

About Everfi

Everfi is an international technology company driving social impact through education to address key societal challenges like financial wellness, mental health, workplace conduct, and more. Founded in 2008, Everfi has reached millions of K-12 and adult learners worldwide with its transformative digital educational content. Through a unique third-party payer model, Everfi provides K-12 schools in the U.S. with access to essential educational resources at no cost, ensuring that students everywhere gain vital life skills.

About Minding Your Money: Skills for Life™

EVERFI’s digital learning platform is trusted by more than 24,000 schools and empowers educators to bring real-world learning into the classroom and equip students with the skills they need both now and in the future. Our fully private-labeled platform puts the Guardian brand front and center for teachers and students with award-winning interactive and game-based lessons designed by experienced educators.

Minding Your Money: Skills for Life teaches students about different financial stages in life, how money and mental wellness are intertwined, and the ways money can affect interpersonal relationships. Through interactive real-world scenarios, this course supports students as they map out their futures, identify the strengths of their financial values, develop resilience, and navigate relationships.

Lesson 1: The Financial Stages of Life

Students explore the different financial needs and responsibilities people face as they go through various stages of education and working life.

Lesson 2: Understanding Your Financial Values

Students learn how features of digital and in-person banking can meet their needs, and how to use online banking tools to manage their money.

Lesson 3: Money and Mental Health

Students learn how finances and mental wellness are connected. They also explore techniques to manage both financial and mental stressors.

Lesson 4: Money and Relationships

Students discover how their financial attitudes and behaviors are influenced by different people in their lives. They also learn the warning signs of financial abuse.

Lesson 5: Initiating Financial Conversations

Students identify the importance of communicating with peers, family, or trusted adults about financial topics and how to best navigate difficult conversations.

Before you share your volunteer experience

We encourage you to share your volunteer story on LinkedIn or other platforms! However, please do not take or post photos that show students’ faces.

If you'd like to include a photo in a post, we recommend a selfie outside the school you are visiting.

While teachers may take and share photos during classroom visits, volunteers should not take photos inside a classroom, unless the teacher has explicitly confirmed they are comfortable with it. Even in such instances, no student faces should be captured.

Volunteer materials

Email templates

Use these as you prepare to lead your classroom visit. You can copy and paste, but don't forget to edit them to swap placeholders with your visit's details.

Volunteer introduction

Subject: Re: Classroom Event with Guardian: [SCHOOL NAME] ([CITY, STATE])

Hi [TEACHER NAME],

[I/We’re] thrilled to join your students and help bring the Minding Your Money curriculum to life!

Could you please confirm the following details:

How do you prefer to be referred to in front of your students?
Which Minding Your Money lessons will your students have completed by the time of our visit?
Is there anything helpful [I/We] should know about your students or classroom setup?
Approximately how many students do you expect to participate?
Could you share arrival instructions and any school policies to be aware of (e.g. parking, visitor check-in procedures, ID requirements)?

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or additional information.

Best,

Reminder (~1 week prior to visit)

Attach: Teacher Toolkit

Subject: Re: Classroom Event with Guardian: [SCHOOL NAME] ([CITY, STATE])

Hi [TEACHER NAME],

I wanted to check in and make sure everything is set for our upcoming classroom visit.

Here are the confirmed event details. Please let me know if anything has changed:

School Name: [INSERT]
Address: [INSERT]
Visit Date: [INSERT]
Visit Time: [INSERT]
Estimated # of Students: [INSERT]
Volunteer(s): [INSERT]

What to Expect:

Brief introductions
Discussion of key financial literacy and wellness concepts from the Minding Your Money curriculum
Q&A session

I’ve attached our teacher toolkit again, for your reference. If there’s anything else [I/we] should know ahead of time, feel free to share. [I’m/We’re] excited to work with you and your students!

Best,

Post-visit / thank you

Subject: Re: Classroom Event with Guardian: [SCHOOL NAME] ([CITY, STATE])

Hi [TEACHER NAME],

Thank you so much for welcoming Guardian into your classroom and sharing your time with [me/us]. It was a pleasure meeting your students, and [I/we] hope they found the session valuable.

We’re always looking to improve the experience for both teachers and students. If you have a moment, we’d love your feedback on the following:

Did you find the session engaging and relevant for your students?
What do you think was the biggest takeaway for them?
Did your students share any feedback about the event?

Thanks again for your partnership and for using the Minding Your Money digital lessons!

Best,

Help others get started

Looking to share information with a teacher or a community organization who may be interested in using the Minding Your Money lessons with students?

Download and share a copy of this flyer

Toolkit

Guardian volunteer hub for classroom connect visits

Helpful background information

Before you share your volunteer experience

Volunteer materials

Volunteer guide

Teacher guide

Volunteer training

Email templates

Help others get started