AP Business with Personal Finance – Kelly Predham

This session AP Business with Personal Finance – with Kelly Predham is offered ONLINE in Week 2: June 22-25, 2026.

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Business with Personal Finance

Kelly Predham is a Business and Marketing educator at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut, where she teaches a variety of Business classes and advises one of the state’s most successful FBLA chapters. Named Ridgefield High School’s 2024–2025 Teacher of the Year, and Connecticut FBLA Advisor of the year,  she is known for designing rigorous, project-based learning experiences that connect students with authentic business challenges, industry partners, and leadership opportunities.

Kelly serves on the College Board’s AP Business Principles Project-Based Learning Development Committee, contributing to course design, field testing, and professional learning resources for educators nationwide. She is also a member of the Connecticut FBLA Board of Directors and has grown her chapter from a small program into a statewide leader, producing extensive state and national competitors.

In addition to her work in secondary education, Kelly has taught college-level dual-enrollment business courses and is a certified University of Connecticut Early College Experience instructor in Personal Financial Literacy. Her professional focus centers on preparing students for college, careers, and leadership through competition-based learning, community partnerships, and innovative AP instruction.

APSI Course Description:

AP Business with Personal Finance is a yearlong high school business and personal finance course that aligns closely with a college-level introduction to business course. Students explore the business disciplines of entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, accounting, and management through real-world business applications, case studies, and project based learning. In addition, students learn and apply all the National Standards for Personal Financial Education created by the Council for Economic Education and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. 

This new career course gives students the tools to take control of their careers, understand how businesses shape the world, and make confident, informed decisions.

This program is an interactive professional development experience. It includes an AP Summer Institute and optional online support sessions focused on implementing a project based learning approach in an AP classroom. 

Project Implementation Guides: Provide adaptable course planning and pacing, recommended assessments and assignments that encompass the entirety of the course. 

Summer Institute: Four-day training in the summer. The workshop includes project simulations, large group discussions, small group activities, reflection and critique, and individual learning. During the Summer Institute, you will:  

• Identify how students learn AP content and skills through course projects. 

• Understand and apply high-quality PBL design elements and teaching practices.

• Simulate and model PBL practices using examples from the course projects. 

• Adapt and prepare to implement the projects with your students. 

Support Sessions: Five optional online support sessions are offered throughout the academic year. These sessions will provide support and learning opportunities before the beginning of each project. In these support sessions, you will:  

• Reflect on prior project work to identify needs for future project implementation. 

• Review and adapt the upcoming project to best serve your students. 

• Refine your PBL practice within the context of a project based AP course. 

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