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Texas Teacher Takes Her Students On A Road Trip Through U.S. History — Remotely
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2553" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/911828412/texas-history-teacher-hosts-virtual-lessons-while-on-historical-road-trip" target="_blank"><strong>Texas Teacher Takes Her Students On A Road Trip Through U.S. History — Remotely - NPR</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Coming back to school this fall has <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/909669691/school-is-off-to-a-slow-start-and-its-going-to-be-a-long-year" target="_blank">presented new challenges</a> for students, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/07/909634878/researchers-warn-about-half-of-child-care-centers-in-u-s-could-be-lost-to-pandem" target="_blank">their families </a>and<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/07/910399148/california-teacher-readies-her-classroom-for-when-students-may-return" target="_blank"> educators</a>. But for Cathy Cluck, it has presented an opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Cluck teaches AP U.S. history at <a href="https://whs.eanesisd.net/" target="_blank">Westlake High School</a> in Austin, Texas. And as she was preparing her lessons for this very nontraditional year, she asked herself, "What can I do now that I wouldn't be able to do in a normal year?" Cluck tells NPR that she "just kind of had this idea: that I teach American history and what if I went to the places where American history happened?"</p><p> </p><p>So she did. Cluck took a 15-day road trip (dubbed the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/greatamericanhistoryroadtrip?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#greatamericanhistoryroadtrip</a>,) to visit some of the places she teaches her students about each year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2553, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/911828412/texas-history-teacher-hosts-virtual-lessons-while-on-historical-road-trip'][B]Texas Teacher Takes Her Students On A Road Trip Through U.S. History — Remotely - NPR[/B][/URL] Coming back to school this fall has [URL='https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/909669691/school-is-off-to-a-slow-start-and-its-going-to-be-a-long-year']presented new challenges[/URL] for students, [URL='https://www.npr.org/2020/09/07/909634878/researchers-warn-about-half-of-child-care-centers-in-u-s-could-be-lost-to-pandem']their families [/URL]and[URL='https://www.npr.org/2020/09/07/910399148/california-teacher-readies-her-classroom-for-when-students-may-return'] educators[/URL]. But for Cathy Cluck, it has presented an opportunity. Cluck teaches AP U.S. history at [URL='https://whs.eanesisd.net/']Westlake High School[/URL] in Austin, Texas. And as she was preparing her lessons for this very nontraditional year, she asked herself, "What can I do now that I wouldn't be able to do in a normal year?" Cluck tells NPR that she "just kind of had this idea: that I teach American history and what if I went to the places where American history happened?" So she did. Cluck took a 15-day road trip (dubbed the [URL='https://twitter.com/hashtag/greatamericanhistoryroadtrip?src=hashtag_click']#greatamericanhistoryroadtrip[/URL],) to visit some of the places she teaches her students about each year. [/QUOTE]
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