Unit Title	Author
2024
Indomitable Voices: LGBTQIA+ Activism within the Latinx Civil Rights Movement	Marla Colondres
Keywords: “Latinidad”, activism, civil rights, discrimination, equality, intersectionality, Latino/a/x/é, LGBTQIA+, Stonewall riots
De/Constructing and Re/Constructing Mexican and Chicanx Identities Through Myths	Feven Yared
Keywords: Aztlán, Chicanx/a/o/@, Indigenismo, La Llorona, La Malinche, La Raza, Mestizaje, Mestizo, Mexican history, Mexican/a/o/@, Myths, Teaching culture in Spanish, Tenochtitlan
Multilingual Elementary Students’ Exploration of Place, Identity and Memory through Sensory Poetry and Imagery	Katie Miller
Keywords: cultural capital, English language, English language learners, Identity, Imagery, multilingual, Place, poetry
2022
Don Quixote, the Impossible Dream, and the American Street Empowerment Zone	Jenifer Félix
Keywords: Bilingual, Don Quijote, Don Quixote, Emigration, Empowerment Zones, Kensington, Monuments and Statues, Philadelphia Geography, Philadelphia history, Representation, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish as a Native Language
“Teaching Black visual culture through PBL”	Alla Dolderer
Keywords: African American culture, Art, Black culture, Black History month, ekphratic poems, moving pictures, photography, video clips, visual culture
Asian Americans in Media: Representation & Identity	Tia Larese
Keywords: Digital Learning, diversity, elementary, ELL, English language learners, Immigrant, Intercultural Classroom, Misrepresentation, Representation, social justice
Cultivating our Cultural Identities	Rebecca Horner
Keywords: bilingualism, butterfly, caterpillar, Culture, EL, ESL, ESOL, ethnicity, family, Food, kindergarten, kinesthetic, parental involvement, parents, phonemic awareness, primary, social capital
2021
City Through Poems, Songs, and Artwork	Alla Dolderer
Keywords: artwork., authentic sources, city, community, ESL, global, immigration, local, poetry, songs
Doctors to Diet: Health Awareness in Education	Tia Larese
Keywords: ELL, ESOL, Health, healthcare system
Listening to Learn: Learning to Listen Lessons from the Griot Families of Mali	Rebecca Horner
Keywords: Africa, Color Vowel Approach, documentary, drumming, Elementary Education, Els, ESL, ESOL, griot, home-language, language learning, Mali, Music
Building Language: Representing and Affirming ELLs’ Home Cultures through Southwest Native American Art	Katie Miller
Keywords: artifacts, English language learners, Indigenous Pottery, language, Navajo, project based learning, Pueblo, Southwest Native American Art, Visual Art Integration, Visual Arts and Language
2020
Ciudades mexicanas en el pasado y el presente (Mexican Cities in the Past and Present)	Sean Carr
Keywords: colonial Mexico, Mexican cities, Mexican culture, modern MExico, Spanish 2
Here I Am: Graphic Novels as Social Equalizers for English Language Learners	Tia D. Larese
Keywords: comics, English language learners, graphic novels, the dark fantastic
Exploring Community Local and Global though Primary Documents and Artifacts: Where do I Stand and What Can I Learn from the Past?	Alla Dolderer
Keywords: artifacts, ESL, local community, low proficiency ESL, Philadelphia history, primary documents
Of Farms and Factories: Assessing the American Labor Movement through Of Mice and Men	Keeler Park
Keywords: collaborative discussion, ESOL, Literature, Of Mice and Men
2019
Hablando con McDonald’s and the Papi Store	: Sharon Sampson
Keywords: ¡Buenos días!, bodega, Foreign Language, greetings, McDonalds, Papi Store, señor, señora, señorita, Spanish, video
Storytelling for Language Acquisition	Patricia Rich
Keywords: Asian literature, Foreign Language, language acquisition, storytelling
Legends, Folktales and Urban Myths in Latinx Cultures	Gabrielle Tompkins
Keywords: folktales, latin culture, legends, storytelling, urban myths
I Am UnBroken: Deconstructing Modern American Poetry to Promote Self-Actualization For English Language Learners	Lisa (Yuk Kuen) Yau
Keywords: Emily Dickinson, long poems, Reading, short poems, Walt Whitman, writing
The Hero’s Journey in The Conference of the Birds and The Name Jar	Paul Dale
Keywords: reading comprehension, storytelling, vocabulary