Unit Title	Author
2024
“Tell Me, How Can I Explain?”: Using 8th-Century Chinese Poetry to Meditate Responsibly in 21st-Century Classrooms	Danina Garcia
Keywords: Chan Buddhism, Chinese History, Meditation, mental health, Mindfulness, poetry, Trauma-Informed Instruction
Building a Community: A Celebration of Culture and Hispanic Heritage	Eileen Dowling
Keywords: community, High School, Hispanic, Latina, Latine, Latino, LatinX, National Hispanic Heritage Month
We Are Not Alone: Cold War (Black) Radical Unionism, Internationalism and the World After George Floyd	Tyriese Holloway
Keywords: McCarthyism, social movements, socialism, solidarity, unions, USSR
Boundaries, Borders, and Sliding Glass Doors: Where do we come from, and where are we going?	Emma Steinheimer
Keywords: Borders, Boundaries, children’s literature, Creative Writing, Critical Literacy, cultural identity, fiction, place-based learning, poetry, storytelling, Writing Workshop
You Have Power! Give It a Voice.	Jennifer Gallagher
Keywords: ability, assumptions, communication, Culture, disability, Identity, Immigrant, journey, language, prejudice
Systems	James O'Karma
Keywords: adam smith, capitalism, communism, economic systems, feudalism, History, karl marx, Literature, Marxism, monopoly
Understanding Latinidades: Reclaiming the Rite/Right to America	Ryann Rouse
Keywords: “banana republics, “Latinidad”, ” informational texts, Afro-Latinidad, collaborative learning, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, La Bamba, Latin America, Latin American colonial history, Latin American Geography, Latin American Politics, Latina, Latino, LatinX, Literature Circles, Panama, postcolonial Latin American Studies, Son Jarocho, summarization
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
Widening the Margins: A multi-genre unit	Christina D'Emma
Keywords: Antigone, Drama, drama strategies, effective speaking techniques, ghazal, Greek tragedy, immigration, Informational text, ode, one act play, pastiche, poetry, project based learning, Syrian refugees, U.S.-Mexico border, verse novel
Immigrant Children’s Literature: Reading and Writing in a Postcolonial Continuum	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Historically Responsive Literacy, Jazz Pedagogy, Postcolonial Literature, Young Adult Fiction
Daughters of Immigrants: Poetry, Spoken Word, and Collage Essays	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: border crossings, daughter of immigrants, literary collage, national identity, poetry, spoken word, women immigrants, women refugees
2023
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Making of Accordion Books, Data Portraits, and People Places	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: 7th Ward, Accordion Books, Data Portraits, Data visualization, Placemaking, Social Epidemiology, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois
2022
Considering Cultural Communities in the Middle School Literacy Classroom	Emma Connolly
Keywords: assimilation, comprehension instruction, Culture, discussion, ethnicity, graphic novels, Identity, Middle School, special education, vocabulary instruction
Asian Americans in Education	Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: Asian Americans, culturally responsive teaching, immigration, model minority
Asian Americans in Media: Representation & Identity	Tia Larese
Keywords: Digital Learning, diversity, elementary, ELL, English language learners, Immigrant, Intercultural Classroom, Misrepresentation, Representation, social justice
“There Must Come A Change”: School-Based Black Educational Activism in Philadelphia	Danina M. Garcia-Fuller
Keywords: 1967 Walkout, African American History, Literary Societies, rhetoric, School District History
Who Owns The Land?: The Sparrow’s Principle and Anti-Gentrification in Philadelphia	Tyriese James Holloway
Keywords: gentrification, Marita’s Bargain
Untangling Hair Discrimination	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: CROWN act, Gender Bias, Hair, hair discrimination, hair laws, hairstyles, Native American boarding school, queue, race bias, tignon
What does it mean to be a Migrant?: Using mentor texts to understand migration	Katherine Volin
Keywords: immigration, migration, poetry, travel
Language, Memory and Bearing Witness: Morrison as Muse for Modern Musings	Ryann Rouse
Keywords: Citing Evidence, collaborative discussion, ELA, Humanities, KWLQ charts, language, Literary Analysis, M.E.A.L. paragraphs, memoir, Memoir Writing, Reader Response Journals, Reading Circles, storytelling