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Greg Frank and Brian Zawodniak and Teaching Through Living History

Connecticut Council for the Social Studies Season 4 Episode 8

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Greg Frank is a social studies teacher from South Windsor who has taught high school and middle school history for 30 years. Greg used to be a Civil War reenactor and is now Revolutionary War re-enactor. 

He met Brian Zawodniak in college, when they were members of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history Honor Society. A teacher at JFK Middle School in Enfield, Brian has taught geography and U.S. History for 17 years. He is a Revolutionary War loyalist reenactor. The two discuss teaching through living history and historical reenactment.