Barbara O’Neill
In honor of National Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4–8) and National Teacher Day (May 5), Barbara O’Neill, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Specialist in Financial Resource Management, was featured by Next Gen Personal Finance, an educational non-profit striving to improve financial literacy.
O’Neill recently won two awards in Next Gen Personal Finance’s First Annual Financial Literacy Month Contest. She was one of five winners in the “Best Personal Finance Resource” College category where she had her students analyze the popular TV series Shark Tank as a tool to teach them about entrepreneurship.
She also won in the “Best Personal Finance Activity” category, which featured original activities that were creative, taught key personal finance skills and provided supporting resources for educators to easily implement the activities in the classroom.
