About to take the stand in her own trial, seventh grade Rebekah mulled over the events that brought her to court. Seriously, it had all seemed like the perfect plan, beginning with her sighting of the “Help Wanted” sign soliciting a bookkeeper for the Pampered Pets venture. She was just plain sick and tired of working…
It was a journalist’s dream. Putting on his reporter’s visor and badge, arming himself with his black steno pad, 4th grader Jacob couldn’t believe his luck. He had the opportunity to do something big. To expose what was really going on with the Myersville Senators. The inside scoop, as they called it. There was a…
Standing before his employees, all seated around the rectangular table for their Monday business meeting, 4th grade manager, Malcolm, shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t get it,” he declared. Scratching his cropped hair, he pointed at the graph that his bookkeeper had prepared. “We haven’t sold a single duct tape change purse.” The employees looked…
We have all heard the adage that it takes a village to raise a child, but its converse is also true. The student citizens of Scottie Land, Sageland Elementary’s MicroSociety, have proven that children have the power to raise a community, even in the midst of tragedy. When the Scottieland MicroSociety Executive Board, composed of…
It was in the checkout line of the Publix on a food shopping errand with Dad that an entrepreneurial vision first sprang in fifth grade Jordan’s mind. He watched the line of kids in front of the quarter machines with intent interest. There was just something about those machines that beckoned for change. It wasn’t…
White hat resting comfortably atop his dark braids, Sabian had all the swagger and confidence of an Iron Chef. “To get your pancakes to come out the same size,” he shared his secret “all you have to do is use an ice cream scoop.” Looking at his restaurant patrons, he shrugged his shoulders, then flipped…
Everyone said 6th grader Cheyenne was destined for stardom. Whenever her teachers wanted to perform a skit, Cheyenne was the first choice. But, to be quite honest, it bothered Chey. She loved being good at something, but she didn’t want it to be the only thing she could do. What if she hurt herself? What…
Gathered around the table for their weekly business meeting, the employees of Scottie Glee-ater, the entertainment venture in Sageland Elementary’s MicroSociety, were facing their first financial crisis. Their annual loan packet was due to the credit union in an hour and they were more than just a few Micro dollars short. “Look, we need…
At the stroke of midnight on the first of January, the brilliant Times Square ball descends, signifying the birth of a new year, a time to renew, reinvent, and reenergize. As the confetti swirls through the air, there’s something else afloat with it–Hope. Hope that no matter how fulfilling last year was, the year ahead…
Jeremiah was a bully. And he knew it. The fiery look in his eye proved it. Everyone was always telling him that he was “so mean”. Mean. Mean. Mean. It’s all he heard. He didn’t try to be. But their words reminded him that he had to live up to the label.…