Aaron Standish

Financial Literacy Program Planner | School District of Palm Beach County

Aaron Standish is in his 10th year as the K-12 Financial Literacy Program Planner for the School District of Palm Beach County, the 10th largest school district in the country. He oversees the implementation of financial literacy programs and activities in the District's 180+ schools with 185,000+ students, where numerous financial education programs have been piloted or implemented at each elementary level, as well as middle school, high school and afterschool settings. Prior to beginning this role in 2014, he was a high school teacher for 13 years primarily teaching Economics with Financial Literacy and U.S. Government. He is the Chair of the School District of Palm Beach County’s Personal Financial Literacy Educational Council, a Board Member with the Florida Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and also sits on the Florida Atlantic University Center for Economic Education Advisory Board and the Palm Beach County STEM Academic and Career Pathways Committee. He was recently a member of the Florida Department of Education’s Financial Literacy Workgroup, a group that wrote Florida’s new financial literacy standards and developed new courses to meet the state’s requirement for a stand-alone high school personal finance course. He has a BS in Social Studies Education from Indiana University, and an MA in Economics and Entrepreneurship for Educators from the University of Delaware.