Travel There to Teach it Here

Driven 2 Teach 2023

The Driven 2 Teach program is taking History teachers out of the classroom and to the very places where history happened. Open to Utah educators, grades 5-12, who specialize in American History or historical literature, the Driven 2 Teach program gives teachers an extended, hands-on learning experience unlike any other—at no cost to the teachers or the schools.
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR 2023: Due to COVID 19 and the fact that we were unable to travel in 2020-2022, the teachers who were accepted in 2020 who are still teaching will be traveling in 2023. There will be no new applications. New applications will be opened next Fall in 2023.
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2023 Field Studies

Founding People and Principles of the American Revolution:

Boston – Philadelphia

June 4-June 11, 2023 (Leaving Sunday, June 4th on a RED EYE flight)

From Samuel Adams’ Republicanism to Benjamin Franklin’s Diplomacy:  An Intellectual and Geographic Journey from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania.

Eligible to Apply/Travel: All 3 grade levels: elementary, junior high, high school (5th, 8th, High School US History)

Civil War to Civil Rights:

South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama

June 11-June 18, 2023

Understanding Civil Rights in American History. From Civil War to Civil Rights; the rights of citizens to political, economic, and social freedom with equality for ALL with a focus on the African American struggle

Eligible to Apply/Travel: All 3 grade levels: elementary, junior high, high school (5th, 8th, High School US History)

Founding Generations, Founding Principles:

Mid-Atlantic America

June 18-June 25, 2023

This seminar will explore the founding generations and founding principles of the United States as seen through the lenses of religion, ethnicity, and slavery in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Field Study will take place in Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. It will communicate an understanding that the Mid-Atlantic can be considered one region in the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. That region in these eras was characterized by religious and ethnic diversity, as well as complicated attitudes and practices in relation to race and slavery.

Eligible to Apply/Travel: All 3 grade levels: elementary, junior high, high school (5th, 8th, High School US History)

What are People Saying

Holly Hoyt
U.S. History

I would not have been able to go visit these historical sites on my own. This was a chance of a lifetime. I’ve seen the sites, I have felt the passion, and I have seen that men and women who were ordinary citizens felt passionate about something and they changed everything.

It was AMAZING! I learned so much and can't wait to get back in the classroom and teach it. Thank you so much to the Larry H. Miller Group and Zion’s Bank.

What an incredible program for teachers. I loved it and learned SO much. I have been able to use much of what I learned in my classes this past year — truly an amazing opportunity!

It was AMAZING! I learned so much and can't wait to get back in the classroom and teach it. Thank you so much to the Larry H. Miller Group and Zion’s Bank.