On March 12, 2025, PBS LearningMedia, PBS’s online destination for PreK-12 teachers and students, will join filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, and iCivics at a virtual event for Civic Learning Week. They will discuss the extensive learning materials and experiences that will be created and curated for upper elementary through high school teachers and students around themes featured in the upcoming film, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, co-directed by Burns and his long-time colleagues Botstein and David Schmidt. The virtual event conversation will also be a broader discussion of civic education and student engagement around America’s 250th. Major funding was provided by The Better Angels Society and its members Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine with the Crimson Lion Foundation; and the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
New Ken Burns Film “The American Revolution” to Be Used in Classrooms Around the Country
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