Spady Elementary School Pta

In a nutshell: Spady has the opportunity to send 6th grade students to participate in UN this April. Children from over 30 countries travel to UN headquarters in NYC where they address the world's most challenging problems. They Caucus & deliver resolutions to the Secretary-General. This is an eye-opening experience and every child, parent & teacher who participates says that it was the single-most life-changing experience of the child. Please take a few minutes to check it out and help us give this amazing opportunity to our future leaders of the world. 

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." ~Maria Montessori

WHAT IS MMUN?

Montessori Model United Nations has partnered with the United Nations to inspire students to global citizenship through study, which culminates in a two-day global education simulation experience in New York with the final assembly at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Our goal is to Inspire youth by engaging them in learning experience where students participate in jumping out of their skin into role-playing by becoming a delegate of their chosen country. They write, present and debate real issues affecting their nation and people of the world. By assuming the character of a citizen of their selected country, they fully develop an understanding of the needs and rights of a people.

Taking on their ambassadorial roles in a Model UN simulation, students research the issue that their UN committees will address. Model UN participants learn how the international community acts on its concerns about topics including peace and security, human rights, the rights of the child, child labor, the environment, food and hunger, economic development and globalization. Model UN delegates also look closely at the needs, goals and foreign policies of the countries they will represent at the event. The insights they gain from their exploration of history, geography, culture, economics and science contribute to the authenticity of the simulation.

When they arrive at the MMUN Conference students transform themselves into UN Ambassadors and assume the rights and responsibilities of world leaders. Their imaginations propel them to collaboratively create resolutions to our world’s most pressing problems. MMUN encourages students to know that they can make a difference.