Mount Vernon's Education Department offers a number of dynamic and engaging programs for educators and students of all ages.
Upcoming Events
Sensory-Friendly Family Morning
Mount Vernon invites neurodivergent individuals and their families to join us for a sensory-friendly morning and tour.
STEAM Teacher Workshop: 18th Century Maps
Join Education staff and K-12 teachers from across the DMV to learn how maps made between 1750 - 1800 can introduce students to new perspectives in history.
Teachers who register must be planning to teach in a formal K-12 school environment in the greater Washington D.C. area for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year.
Ford Evening Book Talk: A Republic of Scoundrels
Hear from historians David Head and Timothy C. Hemmis, editors of A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation.
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints. This new book provides interesting stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s.
Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.
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Washington and Thanksgiving: A Virtual K-12 Classroom Program
Join Mount Vernon for a FREE live virtual program for K-12 classrooms. Help your students get ready for Thanksgiving by examining George Washington's legacy in establishing the national holiday!
The program will run on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 1 p.m. ET and Monday, Nov. 25, at 11 a.m. ET. Teachers may register for one or both sessions.
Washington and Thanksgiving: A Virtual K-12 Classroom Program
Join Mount Vernon for a FREE live virtual program for K-12 classrooms. Help your students get ready for Thanksgiving by examining George Washington's legacy in establishing the national holiday!
The program will run on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 1 p.m. ET and Monday, Nov. 25, at 11 a.m. ET. Teachers may register for one or both sessions.
Ford Evening Book Talk: The Age of Revolutions
Hear from historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, author of The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It.
This is a panoramic, persuasive and inspiring new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand.
Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.
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