HNA Curriculum Holy Names Academy | Seattle All Girls High School

HNA offers an American Ethnic Studies course that is rooted in understanding history from an antiracist and anticolonial pedagogy.
Students are given big concept foundational lessons on culture, ethnicity, race, race formation, privilege, intersectionality, colonialism and institutional and structural racism.
In this course, American history is taught centering Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and Asian historians and narratives.
The course focuses on solutions to institutional and structural racism by centering community stakeholders, most impacted by oppression, and integrating their solutions into antiracist institutional practices and policies.
This course requires students engage in field work, visiting community centers of culture and history that center the BIPOC experience in Seattle and the great PNW region.
Students also learn about cultural heritage months and discuss ways in which culture can be revitalized and celebrated in community.

DEIJB Highlights in the HNA Curriculum