Lin-Manuel Miranda Recorded a Special Video for an Absent Student’s Skeptical History Teacher

Lin-Manuel Miranda Recorded a Special Video for an Absent Student’s Skeptical History Teacher. We’ve all heard excuses like “The dog ate my homework,” or “I don’t feel good” with a half hearted cough for good measure, but student and history enthusiast Luke Stevens had the best excuse to skip class

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Learn All About American History Through Disney’s Magic Kingdom

Learn all about American History through Disney’s Magic Kingdom! Outschool,  a website that offers video chat classes by teachers, allows children to learn while they’re out of school due to current Coronavirus concerns. There is now a one-time class, “American History Through Disney’s Magic Kingdom,” taught by Outschool teacher Courtney

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Top 10: Educational Experiences at Disney World

Disney World is the ultimate field trip! Learning and having fun at the same time is their speciality!  There are hundreds of “secretly educational” things going on at Disney all the time. Epcot is the nerdiest Park ever (my favorite Park, actually) and is all the science and social studies any

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History Of Disney: Would you like some tea?

This is the first of a weekly column that you will see here at Chip and Co. I will be exploring the history behind the rides of the Disney Theme Parks,  the Resorts, Restaurants and even the Special Events. When trying to decide where to start I had many people

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Wednesday with Walt: Master of Sneakiness

With my youngest child graduating last week, I have been on an emotional roller coaster. I feel rather like Marlin in “Finding Nemo” or James in “College Road Trip” in that both of these dads had to learn lessons in letting go and letting their children grow up. Being a

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Wednesday with Walt: The Gift of Mentorship

“A lot of young people think the future is closed to them, that everything has been done. This is not so. There are still plenty of avenues to be explored.” – Walt Disney Next week, my baby boy will graduate from high school. This is a bitter-sweet time for me

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Best Things I Love About Disney – Walt Disney One Man’s Dream

I think I’ve mentioned the three things it takes for an attraction to make my “favorites” list, they are the back story, the quality of the theme, and the ride itself. This attraction made the list without really having any of these things. The back story is not needed because

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