Registration Requirements
Who can register?
- Teachers MUST teach in a formal K-12 classroom or school setting.
- The workshop portion is limited to 30 teachers.
- A waitlist will be available if registration meets full capacity.
Questions? Please contact gwti250@mountvernon.org
Schedule
| 4 p.m. | Welcome Katy Forsythe & Nicole Dobronski |
| 4:10 p.m. | Generals of the Armies: Washington and Pershing |
| 5 p.m. | Special Exhibit & Snack Hour |
| 6 p.m. | Bringing It Back to the Classroom Katy Forsythe, Nicole Dobronski, and Nikki Dean |
| 7 p.m. | Dinner |
Meet the Scholars
Dr. Shawn Faulkner
Dr. Richard S. Faulkner is a Professor of Military History and has taught at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) since 2002. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army and commanded a tank company in the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm. He is the author of The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces (Texas A&M Press, 2012), which was the recipient of the Society for Military History's 2013 Distinguished Book Award. His second book, Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (University Press of Kansas, 2017) received the World War I Association’s 2017 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize for the best work of history in English on World War One, the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Richard W. Leopold Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation’s 2017 Excellence in U.S. Army History Book Award.
Meet the Educators
Nikki Dean
Nikki Dean is a military educator and interpreter at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, providing research support to military educational and professional development content. A retiree from the U.S. Army, Dean served for over 21 years as an aviation officer and was stationed throughout the United States, in Germany and in the Republic of Korea, and is a veteran of the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Her last assignment with the U.S. Army was with the Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, developing command and control doctrine and hosting the Breaking Doctrine podcast. She is a current Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas, researching the intersection of armed conflict and cultural collections and the enduring impact of the post-WWI treaties of peace and the Inter-Allied Reparations Commission.
Nicole Dobronski
Nicole Dobronski is the K-12 Education Specialist at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, leverages over a decade of classroom teaching experience in public schools. She has designed lesson plans for organizations like PBS Learning Media: Ken Burns and facilitated online and in-person teacher workshops for PBS, the Kansas Department of Education and for the Museum and Memorial. Her curriculum and grade-level coursework, designed for post-Covid classrooms, contributed to the top 1% ranking of her district within the United States. Much of her work centers on teaching U.S. history rooted in the ideals of the U.S. Constitution, with a consistent emphasis on incorporating diverse perspectives.
Katy Forsythe
Katy Forsythe is a high school social studies teacher at Dallas Center-Grimes High School in Grimes, Iowa and a GWTI250 Ambassador at George Washington's Mount Vernon. As part of the Leadership and Legacy of George Washington Fellowship at Mount Vernon, Katy created an infographic and activity sheets scaffolded to elementary, middle, and high school students. As a James Madison Fellow, she spent a month with fellows from almost every state studying the American Founding and Constitution through Georgetown University and the James Madison Foundation. With the support of JMF, Katy is finishing her Master of Arts in American History and Government through Ashland University.
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