Schedule
| 9:15 a.m. | George Washington's Early Life with Be Washington: Newburgh Conspiracy |
| 12:15 p.m. | George Washington Presidency and Slavery with Be Washington: Washington Rebellion |
| 2:30 p.m. | George Washington Farewell Address and Evaluation |
Registration Requirements
Who can register?
- Teachers MUST teach in a formal K-12 classroom or school setting.
- The workshop is limited to 25 teachers.
- A waitlist will be available if registration meets full capacity.
Questions? Please contact [email protected]
Meet the Speaker
Scott Casper
Scott E. Casper is President of the American Antiquarian Society, a national research library of American history and culture in Worcester, Massachusetts. The author of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine (2008) and author or editor of eight other books, he has taught in the George Washington Teacher Institute since 2000 and advised Mount Vernon on its museum exhibition Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. He has also worked extensively with the Center for Civic Education’s program, We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution. Scott previously served as professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and dean of arts, humanities, and social sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Meet the Educators
Lois MacMillan
Lois MacMillan teaches AP Government and American history at Grants Pass High School in Grants Pass, Oregon, however in her thirty-two years of teaching, she has taught at every level. A James Madison Fellow and Oregon’s History Teacher of the Year,, MacMillan was named 2024’s DAR National Teacher of the Year. In 2018 she was honored with Grammy Museum’s Jane Ortner Award for incorporating music in a non-music classroom which led to a one-year sabbatical as the first Senior Education Fellow for the Hamilton Education Program serving more than 750 Title I high schools and having over 50,000 students attend the Broadway show, Hamilton. In 2024, the Organization of American Historians’ Mary K. Tachau Award in recognition of contributions of precollegiate teachers to improve history education within the field of American history.
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