Every place has a woman's story to tell, and this session will introduce you to new ways to bring more gender equity to the interpretation of historic places with concrete examples of student educational programs that center diverse women's narratives. You'll learn directly from the staff and educators at sites of creativity, who have designed a range of virtual, in-person, on-site, and after-school education programs specifically to engage K-5 students, ensuring they encounter women as an integral part of their site's history, but also empowering young children, particularly young girls, to imagine their own future roles and goals.

Presenters from Historic Artists Homes and Studios will share how they have used an innovative small grant program to inspire these educational programs, re-evaluating and expanding their relationships with their educational and community partners and challenging themselves to create educational programs and environments that are more accessible and relevant to students’ wide-ranging identities, needs, and abilities, including bilingual, non-seeing, Indigenous, and transgender audiences.

Following the presentation of case studies, attendees will break out into small groups (along with the moderators and presenters) for informal discussion around the topics that interest them most, moving freely between groups to offer feedback on the projects presented, to discuss ideas for adapting the case studies for their own organizations and sites, or to workshop new concepts for their own women-focused educational programs to engage the next generation.