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This innovative K-8 educational design puts meaningful work into the experience of childhood. In the MicroSociety program, children create a microcosm of the real world inside the classroom. Each child has an important role in running that world. Student entrepreneurs produce business plans and create goods and services to sell in the marketplace, judges arbitrate disputes and draft laws, peacekeepers maintain order in the hallways, and all student citizens earn wages in the school’s “Micro” currency, invest in product ideas, deposit and borrow money from “Micro” banks, and pay taxes, tuition, and rent - on their desks. As students navigate the world they’ve created, they come to realize the practical applications of their daily school curriculum and are empowered to take an active role in their own education. When children see the correlation between learning and real life, academic achievement rises. When discipline, traditionally handled by teachers, can be resolved by student consensus, behavior problems disappear.

For more information about the National MicroSociety Program visit their site.