Herstory-hffu.org
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HerStory For Futures Unlimited
Description
HerStory For Futures Unlimited is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote women’s history in early education. HFFU was founded by Executive Director Milli-Ann Iuso-Cox along with other educators.
We work to make history more inclusive by writing and presenting curriculum that acknowledges women’s contributions to America. Our mission is to provide role models to our future leaders via curriculum for children at the earliest possible stage in their education. Thus, we are working to include herstory in history so that today’s students can learn our story.
Working in our classrooms, educators in the San Francisco Bay Area discovered that positive role models, so important during students’ formative years, are rarely present and often uninspiring in standard curricula. The experiences of women and people of color have been largely overlooked in the construction of America’s cultural history. In order to fill this gap and to ensure that all students see themselves represented in the curriculum early on in their school lives, we have designed an interdisciplinary curriculum plan especially for elementary and middle grades. Each unit provides students with noteworthy and heretofore hidden role models to inspire both girls and boys and to foster more inclusive and respectful cultural attitudes.
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