"providing resources to teach students financial literacy and economic understanding"
"providing resources to teach students financial literacy and economic understanding"
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_______________________________________________________________________ What is Mini-Society®? The Mini-Society® is an experience-based instructional system targeted primarily for teaching entrepreneurship, economics, and citizenship concepts to students ages 8 to 12. It was conceived by Dr. Marilyn Kourilsky in the early 1970s and has been refined, extended, and extensively tested over a period of nearly three decades. Mini-Society® has been widely implemented in over 43 states and has been shown to be effective across socioeconomic boundaries and student learning styles. Mini-Society® has also established its effectiveness outside of the traditional classroom setting, in outside-of-school and summer camp venues such as 4-H clubs. The system is typically implemented in 10 or 20 week increments, three sessions per week, with each session lasting about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Teachers are carefully trained how to exercise facilitative and consultative roles (as opposed to their more traditional lecturing and classroom management roles) to maximize the system's ability to enable student learning in target subject areas. They also are taught how to identify experiential trigger points ("teachable moments") and to leverage those teachable moments through the use of teacher-led structured debriefings. These debriefings correlate the experiential learning of the students with the more formal subject matter concepts their experiences reflect. This correlation with and building upon experiences representing familiar knowledge to the students enable the teachers to advance their students progressively to higher and higher levels of understanding and application. ________________________________________________________________________ Through Mini-Society® children:
________________________________________________________________________ Click here to view a one minute video about Mini-Society®. ________________________________________________________________________ To become a Certified Mini-Society® Instructor the following must be accomplished:
________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Marilyn Kourilsky, in her capacity as Vice President with the Ewing Marion Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, is responsible for Entrepreneurship Education in grades K-12 and at the community college level. Entrepreneurship education initiatives which carry her design and development imprimatur include Entrepreneur Invention Society, MADE-IT (Mothers and Daughters Entrepreneurs - In Teams), Making a Job, and EntrePrep. Under her leadership, these and other innovative K-14 entrepreneurship education thrusts have achieved significant visibility and implementation presence across the nation -- both within and outside of the school classroom. As an expert in both entrepreneurship and education, Dr. Kourilsky has pursued internationally acclaimed research in entrepreneurship education, youth entrepreneurship, economics education, and learning theory. Her research reflects the clinical influence of her broad spectrum teaching experience at both the elementary and the high school levels. She has created extensively implemented educational reforms including the widely acclaimed Mini-Society® and the Kinder-Economy(TM); these programs have been actively featured in various media including the Today Show, The New York Times , and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal . In her role as Professor of Education and Director of Teacher Education at the University of California, she established a nationally recognized and highly innovative teacher education program (CARE). Dr. Kourilsky's extensive publishing record spans numerous articles in refereed journals and 16 books including Economics and Making Decisions, Effective Learning: Principles and Practices, Making a Job: A Guide to Entrepreneurship, and Seeds of Success: Entrepreneurship and Youth. Dr. Kourilsky has been the recipient of numerous honors including the two top UCLA awards for Outstanding Applied Research and for Outstanding Professorial Teaching, the EUCLAN Award for Innovation in Teacher Education, The National Freedom Foundation Award for Excellence, the John C. Schramm National Leadership Award, and the Henry H. Villard National Research Award. She has served as president and executive director of the California Council on Economic Education and president of the Society of Economic Educators. Dr. Kourilsky continues her long-term personal entrepreneurial pursuits in commercial real estate and enjoys weight lifting and cooking as hobbies. ________________________________________________________________________ About The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in 1992 with the vision of accelerating entrepreneurship in America. Entrepreneurship has emerged as the increasingly dominant force in our nation's economy as entrepreneurs create new goods and services, technologies, and most of our country's new jobs. In parallel with this emergence, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking have taken on increasing importance for the empowerment and self-sufficiency of both youth and adults, for their ability to contribute to economic growth, and for their ability to contribute philanthropically to their communities. The story of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership begins with Ewing Marion Kauffman, a successful entrepreneur and truly remarkable philanthropist. Mr. Kauffman attributed his success to three key principles: treat others as you want to be treated, share the rewards with those who produce, and give back to the community. In keeping with his personal philosophy, Mr. Kauffman, with over $1 billion dollars from his personal wealth, endowed a private foundation - the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri -- to carry out his vision of self-sufficient people in healthy communities. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation continues to give back to the community in two areas that were of great philanthropic importance to Mr. Kauffman: youth development and entrepreneurial leadership. Supported and funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Kauffman Center pursues its vision of accelerating entrepreneurship in America by serving as a catalyst for:
In particular, with respect to its focus on the awareness, readiness, and application experiences of youth from kindergarten through community college, the Kauffman Center has been enhancing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills through the creation of national initiatives and the support of partnerships that integrate four strategic thrusts: entrepreneurship education curricula development and dissemination; training of students, educators, and leaders; research and publication; and enhancement of public policy awareness. Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership The National Council on Economic Education now has an entrepreneurial opportunity to administer the youth entrepreneurship programs previously run by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The NCEE has accepted this timely educational challenge and is committed to make excellent and effective entrepreneurship education a central part of our core business in advancing economic and financial literacy. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded the NCEE a $3.5 million grant over three years to administer three programs in youth entrepreneurship: The grant requires a matching $1.1 million to be provided by and through the NCEE for a total of $4.6 million. Contact the Center for Economic Education at the
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