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Making A Better Lesson Plan

 Yes, it's a boring title. Even more unbelievable, I need your help to do it. I'm designing lessons that embody the changes I believe need to happen for education to become useful again. (At least those that don't require a completely different system...more on that in my podcast: Ally's Dreamland)

Anyway, if you have read or heard of a good book that focuses on the life and/or actions of one of the influential people that founded the United States of America, I would appreciate it if you could take a couple minutes and tell me about it (or at least what it's called) so I can also read it and see where I can fit in into my current project.

Here is the link: Founding Fathers Book Survey

Thank you so much for your help! 

Please share the survey and link to anyone you think would be interested :)

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