Mayor Glenn Ritchey swore in our Micro Citizens on Monday, 10/11/11 at 9:30am in the church. The Daytona Beach News-Journal ran the story on the weekend of October 22. The Peace Keepers have been sworn in and begun their patrols. Our other ventures and agencies have hired most of their employees and are now getting ready to open for business. Our Constitution is finalized!! See "Attachments" below to view the document created by our constitutional convention delegates. Twenty-two students graduated from Management 101. During this week-long course, they learned about leadership styles and qualities, how to run a business meeting, how to set goals and create action plans, and how to solve problems that may come up in the daily operation of a business. These students took their final exam and are now "certified" to be hired as managers for the business ventures and government agencies in our MicroSociety. Arthur Schwartz, President and C.E.O. of Salsa King, was generous enough to come to our graduation ceremony to speak about his experiences as a business owner and to present graduation certificates to the newly minted managers.
 "My kids were poor, and if they didn’t learn, they were going to stay poor. I wanted to put the responsibility of learning on them because until they wanted to learn, I couldn’t teach them." -Dr. George Richmond, Founder The Power of an Idea In 1967, Dr. George Richmond, then a 5th grade rookie New York City teacher, faced 33 unruly kids. Having grown up in poverty by a single mother in a tenement on the Lower East Side of New York, he understood that when grades and discipline don’t motivate students to learn, freedom and responsibility would. From Richmond’s vision grew the MicroSociety program, a revolutionary learning model that drives students to want to learn classroom curriculum when real-world activities make it relevant to their lives. His 1972 book, The MicroSociety School: A Real World in Miniature, was reviewed for Harper and Rowe by Peter Drucker and remains the definitive work in the field. About MicroSociety MicroSociety creates motivating learning environments that are continuous throughout the year. The interconnected, real world experiences are relevant and meaningful to children and purposefully engage the community in their evolution. The result – students learn and practice 21st Century skills in class and “on the job” by managing their own miniature community, not on-line, but in real-time, for one period a day. Program Impact MICROSOCIETY’s co-operative, rigorous esteem-building programs have the power to address many of the problems that plague American classrooms today:
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