Wednesday, June 4, 2003

School system wins state excellence award The Georgia Council on Economic Education has awarded the Fayette County School System its Georgia Economic Education Program of Excellence Award for the implementation of Mini-Society, a program that teaches students about supply and demand. Every third-grade student in the county, approximately 1,400, learns basic market concepts through the program. Students create their own society, flag, currency and job descriptions as well as develop goods and market them to other students. The council presented the award to the school system at its annual business meeting May 16 at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. Cathy Geis, social studies coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of the school system. In attendance with Geis was four of the teachers who originally piloted Fayette's program: Lisa Gonzalez, Tammy Brown and Shelby Garner, all of Spring Hill Elementary and Stacy Bertossi of Kedron Elementary. Three other pilot teachers not in attendance were Lynette Swann and Alisa Uhle, both of Robert J. Burch Elementary and Kara Thompson of Oak Grove Elementary. What do you think of this story? Click here to send a message to the editor. Back to the News Home Page| Back to the top of the page