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Colonial Williamsburg Summer Institute

School was out for summer, but teachers never stop learning. Kristin Faulk, a Yorktown Elementary School teacher, and Brad Miles, a Tabb Middle School teacher, attended a session of Colonial Williamsburg’s 24th Teacher Institute in July. They were able to attend the session courtesy of a sponsorship from the Historic Triangle Friends of Colonial Williamsburg.

At Wetherburn’s Tavern, the teachers learned how to use the architecture of the tavern and primary sources such as inventories, paintings and furnishings to interpret how people of the past lived and the events that influenced the Revolution and formed the basis for a new nation.

Teachers also participated in a debate about the Resolution for Independence in the House of Burgesses in the Capitol in Colonial Williamsburg’s Revolutionary City.