"Imagine a place where children learn math by holding jobs, paying taxes and owning businesses that sell everything from pompom pencils to potpourri pillows. A place where students study logic and law by taking their peers to court and fining them in the school’s own currency. A place where kids come to understand politics by drawing up their own constitution, drafting laws and deciding which days of the week baseball caps may be worn to class. Imagine, in short, a school where civics is not just a course but a continuous experience in playing with the building blocks of modern society."

Kevin Fedarko, TIME, September, 1992

For more than 15 years, MicroSociety has been creating motivating learning environments that are meaningful and relevant to children. Beyond project based learning or one day simulations, our real life business ventures and government agency activities are long-term, authentic, and interconnected. They inspire success.

The MicroSociety program involves students in the design and management of their society in miniature not online but in real time usually for one period a day. It is hands on, developmentally appropriate and it integrates into the schools’ traditional curriculum throughout the day. By connecting school to life we increase the relevance of classroom instruction and motivate students to stay in school and take responsibility for their own learning.