AP Business with Personal Finance – Session 1 – Tatyana Pashnyak

This session AP Business with Personal Finance with Tatyana Pashnyak is offered ONLINE during Week 1: June 15-18, 2026. 

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Business with Personal Finance

Ms. Tatyana Pashnyak is an experienced, dedicated, and innovative K-12 teacher and college professor who provides evidence-based training and educational consulting in business, management, and marketing education across both K-12 and higher education sectors. Grounded in adult learning principles, her work reflects nearly three decades of professional experience, including serving as an AP College Board-endorsed consultant, course instructor, developer, and reader since 2019.  

She serves on the core AP Business Principles with Personal Finance course development and implementation team and has been actively involved in the development of course content for the past two years. Her work also includes designing instructional delivery and implementation strategies for the course. She taught the inaugural APSI for AP Business Principles with Personal Finance during Summer 2025.  

Her instructional approach emphasizes problem-based learning to support sustained inquiry and effective AP course implementation. Ms. Pashnyak is also a Certified Online Instructor and Certified Faculty Developer through LERN and holds the Entrepreneurship and Small Business-Master (ESB and Design for Delight Innovator) certification through Intuit.

About the Course and APSI Session 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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