A history teacher in Texas gave new meaning to distance learning, racking up roughly 3,000 miles and crisscrossing the country as she conducted lessons from significant sites like Gettysburg and the Lincoln Memorial. With her school’s in-person classes on pause, Cathy Cluck, an AP U.S. History and AP European History teacher at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, got the green light from her principal to embark on a project she called her “Great American History Road Trip.”
… Starting August 21, the 27-year teaching veteran visited notable landmarks, greeting her students over video chat from a new location each day. She’s back home in Texas now, but for just over two weeks her educational Zoom journey included stops in Washington, D.C., the settlements at Jamestown and Williamsburg and the grounds where Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met for their famously fatal 1804 duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.