Peak Mastery Courses are built from a series of integrated learning Modules. The Curriculum listed below shows all the modules available. You may purchase one or more of our Standard Courses or, for additional cost, build your own Course from the following.

Powerful and customized assessments are also available for an additional fee per student. Contact us to speak with a program specialist about your assessment needs.

Core Curriculum

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Introduction: How This Works

Your Preferred Lifestyle
Intro to Independent Life (in Three Parts)
Journal and Reflection on Living on Your Own

Research and Decide Your Independent Lifestyle
Find a Real Apartment
Furnish Your Apartment
Determine Costs to Move Out
Create a Budget for Basic Expenses
Purchase a Car, Calculate a Car Loan
Real Costs of Owning and Maintaining a Car
Explore Insurance Costs for Cars and Health
Calculate Leisure and Entertainment Costs
Saving, Investing, Credit Cards, and Rainy Days
Income Needed to Achieve Your Preferred Lifestyle
Journal and Reflection on Budgets, Lifestyle, Expenses

Identify Job, Career, and Vocational Options
Profile Yourself, Identify Job and Career Categories
Explore Income, Working Conditions, Job Outlook

Align Your Lifestyle, Mission, and Earning Power

Explore Educational Options and Outcomes
Find Colleges, Explore Admissions, Compare Costs
Interview a Worker in Your Chosen Career
Journal and Reflection on Careers, Jobs, Education

Intro to the Business World
Business Self-Assessment
Write a Basic Business Plan
Interview an Entrepreneur
Journal and Reflection on the Business World

Decide Your Lifestyle Goals, Make a Commitment

Explore Giving Back to the Community
Intro to Service and Volunteering
Service Learning Self-Assessment
Interview a Volunteer or Service Worker

Skills Analysis
Your Skills - Past Achievements
Your Functional Skills: Data
Your Functional Skills: People
Your Functional Skills: Things
Your Functional Skills: Responsibilities
Your Adaptive Skills

Employment Preferences
Job and Organizational Preferences
Compensation, Lifestyle, and Financial Preferences
Your Career Database

Your Mission
Mission - Identify Your Values
Mission - Profile Your Interests
Mission - Clarify Your Preferences
Write Your Mission Statements

Money Basics and Living Within Your Means
Financial Pre-Assessment
Setting Financial Goals
Your Net Worth
Living Within Your Means
Decide Spending Consciously: Needs, Wants, and Saving

Basic Banking and Checking
Understanding and Using Personal Checks
Understanding and Using Your Checking Account
Understanding and Using Bank Statements

Basic Budgeting and Cash Flow
Create, View, and Manage a Detailed Budget
Forecasting Spending, Managing Cash Flow
Anticipate Your Spending and Stay Organized

Interest and Loans
Discover Interest Basics
Intro to Credit and Types of Credit
Credit Reports and Credit Reporting Agencies
Explore Various Loan and Credit Options
Underwriting and What It Means to You
Underwriting and The Whole Picture

How to Manage Your Financial Tools
Gather Information, Get Organized
Tools for Getting and Staying Organized

Solving Credit and Money Problems
Credit Scoring Basics
Credit Repair and Problem Accounts
Other People and Your Credit
How Bad Credit Ages
Planning a Financial Recovery
Climbing Out of Debt

Buying Your First Home
Qualifying for a Mortgage
Timeline to Get Your Finances in Order
Finding Down Payment Assistance
Organize Your Documents for Home Purchase
Home Preferences Checklist

Basic Home Expenses
Renting vs. Buying
Renting, Leases, and Landlords
Shopping for the Basics: Food, Clothing, and Household

Advanced Curriculum

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Achieving Your Earning Power
Continuing Education and Personal Development
Education and College
Managing Your Career
Networking Skills
Academic Management
High School Class Selection

Daily Skills for Success
Health & Hygiene
Cooking and Nutrition
Car Maintenance

Choices About At-Risk Behavior
Choices: Legal and Criminal
Choices: School and Dropping Out
Choices: Addiction and Substance Abuse
Choices: Pregnancy, Parenting, and Forever
Choices: Thrill Seeking
Choices: General Outcomes

Success in the Working World
School to Work
Teamwork and Initiative
Workplace Etiquette
Coworkers and Bosses
Conflict Resolution and Communication
Your Paycheck

Success in School
Value of School
Study Skills
Academic Management
College Research
Entrepreneurial

Continuing Education
College Loans, Financial Aid, and Scholarships
College Selection
College Admissions
College Life and Academic Management
Graduating, Your First Job, and Job Success
Community Service

Making the Future Real
Vision Portfolio: Create a Vivid Picture of Future Success
Gap Analysis: Where are you now?
Gap Analysis: What's next?
Goal Setting and Tracking
What Now?

Home Buying Considerations
Buying for Living, Buying as an Investment

Owning a Car
Financing a car
Auto Expenses
Selling a Car

Getting the Support You Need
Share Your Mission with Parents and Family
Dealing with the System: Consequences
Ask for What You Need
Avoiding the Major Temptations

Advanced Financial Topics
Debt Management
Investing and Retirement
Personal Financial Statements
Cash Flow and Balance Sheet
Filing Your Tax Returns
Selecting and Using Financial Services
Major Investment Strategies and Programs
Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Insurance, Real Estate
Types of Consumer Credit
Applying for Credit
Protecting Your Credit
Insurance: Life, Health, Auto, Property, Disability
Estate Planning