Revolutionary Educators
Revolutionary Educators Teachers Summit
It has never been more challenging, but also more important, for teachers to engage their students with a more inclusive and honest history in a complex and politicized classroom environment. Classroom teachers, educators from museums and historic sites, public historians, and university-based teacher educators can work together to create robust and sustainable models to transform teaching and learning in classrooms across the country. This is the mission of the Revolutionary Educators community of practice.
On October 27th, 2022, nearly 100 museum and historic site educators, teacher educators, and K-12 teachers gathered in-person and online for the inaugural RevEd Teacher Summit for 2026. Participants connected with colleagues from across the country to explore challenges and possibilities and take actionable strategies back to their teaching. RevEd was generously supported by William & Mary, Teacher InSites, and the Virginia 250 Commission. Many participants also opted to stay in Williamsburg to attend the For 2026 Conference hosted by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI), William & Mary, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation at no cost.
The second RevEd Teacher Summit met Oct. 26-28, 2023. The theme for this event was "For 2026: Contested Freedoms." Participation in this year's conference grew to include more than 120 museum educators, teacher educators, and K-12 classroom teachers from 3 tribal nations, 24 states, and the District of Columbia meeting in person and online. In addition to researcher–to-researcher panels and workshops for scholars of the American Revolution and Vast Early America, we offered sessions for and by museum educators, teacher educators, and classroom teachers. These sessions explored ways to bridge theory and practice to advance an expansive, inclusive history of early America that accounts for the diversity of people and experiences that shaped the period.
