Emma Hart Willard

  

                         

                                            By Emma

 Today I am working on a person named Emma Hart Willard. Emma Willard wanted to be a teacher. She was the first women to be a teacher. The things I’m going to be talking about are school & education, who joined & worked with her, and when she was born & when she died.  

Emma Willard started her school in 1814 and ended it in 1838. Her school lasted 24 years. At 19, Emma Willard was offered a summer teaching job at a girls school in Middlebury, Vermont. Emma Willard wanted to learn how to be a teacher to help with women’s education. Emma Willard opened a new boarding school for curious women. 

Emma Willard’s assistant was Cilia M. Burleigh. Early Americans had joined her cause, including John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the New York governor, DeWitt Clinton. 

Emma Willard was born Feb. 23, 1787, and died April 15, 1870, at the age of 83. 

I think Emma Willard is very cool because of all the things she did. For example, Emma Willard was the first women to be a teacher in her long life.