Weigh trade-offs
Recognize what each option offers—and what choosing it may require giving up.
About Us
I saw how ideas from economics—trade-offs, incentives, consequences, and uncertainty—helped my students think more clearly. Those decision-making skills felt too important to leave underemphasized, especially in the world students are navigating today.
Meet the founder
Jason Werch
I earned a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics while living in Tianjin, China, where I spent ten years teaching Economics and History at various international middle and high schools. I later completed a master’s degree in Finance and Economics online through West Texas A&M University.
After returning home from China, I worked Prevention Plus Wellness, an organization aimed at providing substance use prevention curriculum to schools and non-profits. Today, I continue to work part-time teaching Economics at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. Across those roles, I have remained focused on helping students connect ideas to the decisions they make in real life.
A path shaped by teaching, economics, and prevention
Moment Wise grew from years of working with students in different educational settings and seeing the same need: more opportunities to practice how to make a thoughtful decision.
The idea behind Moment Wise
Economics taught more than content
Economics gave students a practical language for decisions: recognize incentives, weigh trade-offs, predict consequences, and make choices when the outcome is uncertain.
I saw those habits improve the way students reasoned—not only about economics, but about everyday life. Yet the practice of decision-making itself often felt underemphasized in traditional education. Moment Wise was created to make that practice intentional.
Recognize incentives
Notice the rewards, pressures, and systems that may be pushing a choice.
Predict consequences
Look beyond the immediate result and consider what may happen next.
Decide under uncertainty
Make a thoughtful choice even when information and outcomes are incomplete.
Judgment has to meet the modern world
Students now make consequential choices in environments that move quickly, apply constant pressure, and rarely provide complete information.
Social media
Fast reactions, public consequences, comparison, reputation, and belonging.
Artificial intelligence
Trust, authorship, bias, deepfakes, ethics, and responsible use.
Modern relationships
Boundaries, communication, digital intimacy, conflict, and repair.
Pressure and stress
Peer influence, emotional decisions, health, substances, and coping.
Gambling and gaming
Betting apps, loot boxes, reward loops, risk, and manipulation.
Scams and misinformation
Persuasion, financial traps, algorithms, misleading claims, and evidence.
Our approach
Practice before the moment is real
Each lesson centers on a realistic situation and gives students a practical skill they can use the same day.
The goal is not to lecture students or pretend every situation has one simple answer. It is to help them pause, understand the pressure, consider other people, predict where a choice may lead, and act in a way that will to the best outcome.
Start with a realistic situation
Students engage with a choice that feels believable rather than an abstract warning.
Make the thinking visible
They identify pressure, trade-offs, other perspectives, and possible consequences.
Practice one useful skill
Each lesson teaches a memorable strategy students can use in a fast moment.
Respect student agency
The goal is stronger reasoning—not telling students what they must think.