Category: president
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George Washington’s Teeth- A Lesson in Looking Deeper
This week I have the honor and pleasure of attending the George Washington Teacher Institute at Mount Vernon. The hospitality and generosity of the staff here is astounding, and the scholars I’m getting to learn from just amaze me (I got to meet and listen to Lindsay Chervinsky, author of The Cabinet and an all-time…
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Checks & Balances
Any time my students are given the opportunity to “do” history they usually jump in head first and with great enthusiasm. This is why when my colleague Ken had an idea for the students to experience checks and balances by actually taking part in the system through scenarios created by us I climbed aboard. The…