Financial wellness for the people who run our schools.
Staff Guidance gives school employees answers when they need them. Savology adds the money dimension: a three-minute financial report card and a personalized plan for every staff member: teachers, aides, administrators, and everyone in between.
Free · About three minutes · Private by design
A− Your grades in 3 minutesSchools run on people who are quietly stretched.
School staff are asked to hold a building together on public-sector pay, with pensions that are genuinely complicated and benefits that go unused because nobody has time to read them.
Support that stops above the classroom
Financial guidance in districts tends to reach administrators. Teachers, aides, bus drivers, custodial and cafeteria staff, the people the building cannot open without, are rarely offered anything.
Summers spent making up the gap
A pay structure with a hole in it drives a second job, and financial strain follows staff back into September. It shows up as burnout and turnover long before it shows up in a budget line.
A pension nobody explains plainly
State pensions, 403(b)s, and district plans are genuinely complex, and the explanations arrive as forms. Staff often cannot tell whether they are on track, so the question gets avoided rather than answered.
Three minutes, in the staff room.
The Staff Guidance version of the Savology survey. Tap-only answers, nothing to look up, and your grades at the end, never visible to your school or district.
Answer a short set of questions
About three minutes on a phone. Tap-only for most of it, with ranges instead of exact figures, so nothing needs looking up.
Your grades appear
Retirement, savings, insurance, debt, and estate, graded A to F, including how your pension and 403(b) actually leave you positioned.
Your plan follows
Prioritized next steps in plain English, pointing at the district benefits you already have and may not be using.
What you walk away with
For the whole building
Financial guidance usually reaches the people who need it least. The report card works at every salary band and every role: no minimums, no jargon, no assumptions.
Never visible to the district
Each staff member's report card and plan belong to them alone. Employers and districts see aggregate participation, never anyone's personal finances.
Grades, then next steps
Letter grades across retirement, savings, insurance, debt, and estate planning, then a prioritized plan that routes staff toward the benefits they already have.
Why anyone does nothing
Most people never act on their finances, and it is rarely for lack of caring. It is that almost every route into getting help feels like the opening of a sales pitch, and the moment something feels that way, people stop.
Nothing is sold to anyone here. The report card is free, it takes about three minutes, and it asks for no account logins and no Social Security number.
It exists to get people off the sidelines and doing one thing that is good for them, which is the only part that has ever actually mattered.
Your district never sees any of this.
Your report card and plan belong to you alone. Your school, your district, and Staff Guidance see participation counts only: never your grades, your numbers, or whether you finished. There are no payroll integrations and no data feeds.
How the separation works →About Staff Guidance
Staff Guidance is a Cook Center for Human Connection program supporting the wellbeing of school employees, with expert help for the hardest parts of working in education. Savology adds the financial dimension of that wellbeing, free to every staff member.
Visit Staff Guidance →Common questions
Does this cost anything?
No. The report card and your personalized plan are free: no credit card, no trial, nothing to cancel.
Can my school or district see my results?
No. Your report card is visible to you alone. Districts and schools receive aggregate participation only, how many staff took part, never who or what anyone scored.
Does it understand pensions and 403(b) plans?
Yes. Retirement readiness is graded on what you actually have, including a state pension and any district retirement plan, so the grade reflects a public-sector career rather than assuming a private-sector one.
Will I be contacted or sold something?
Not unless you ask. Finishing a report card does not put you on a call list. If your grades show a need that genuinely takes a professional, you may be offered an introduction to a well-vetted advisor, entirely your choice.
What is the relationship between Savology and Staff Guidance?
Staff Guidance is a Cook Center for Human Connection program. Savology supplies the financial wellbeing layer inside it, the report card, the plan, and the education, under the Staff Guidance name.
Three minutes to know where you stand.
Free · About three minutes · No account linking, no documents