Unit Title	Author
2023
How Do We Envision A More Sustainable And Just Philadelphia?	Dr. Joe Alberti
Keywords: Air Pollution, fossil fuels, Renewable and Non-renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability
Sustainability is the Name of the Game!	Alima McKnight
Keywords: climate change, digital native, elementary, engagement, game based theory, gamification, motivation, pollution, solution, sustainability
Building an Environmentally Equitable Community One School at Time	Tia Graves
Keywords: Climate Justice/Racism, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Equity, green stormwater infrastructure, Mitigation, resilience, Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Island Adaptation
2022
Evaluate the Power of a “Heart on Fire”	Theresa Eck
Keywords: analyzing historical evidence, APUSH, challenging dominant narratives, dominant narrative, HIPP, nation state, progressivism, Reconstruction
Old City Philadelphia	Mary Patricia Lavin
Blood Money – The Making of Philadelphia’s Heroes	Deborah Wei
Who Tells Your Story? The Power of Debate and Discourse in the High School Classroom	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Christopher Columbus, debate, High School, Monument, Mural, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky
Indigenous Voices: Crossroads between Monuments and Trees	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: Crazy Horse, indigenous people, Little Bighorn Battlefield., Monuments, Mount Rushmore, Penn Treaty Tree
Using Mathematical Representations to Provide Student Choice and Enrichment	Kara Yanochko
Keywords: centers, choice, choice boards, enrichment, extension, flexibility, mathematics, menus, reasoning, rotations, student choice
Modular Arithmetic for Developing Fact Fluency	Tessa Murphy Nitkin
Keywords: addition, clock arithmetic, elementary, fact fluency, intervention, mathematics, modular arithmetic
Brain Games	Audrey Golub
Keywords: Battleships, Critical thinking, Cryptograms, Four Color Theorem, games, justify, puzzles, reasoning, Standards of Mathematical Practice
Latin Asians: Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in Latin America	Alisha Davis
Keywords: Culture, ethnicity, High School, Identity, Latino, panethnicity, project based learning, race, social studies education
Engaging Philadelphia’s Ward System: How democratic is our system?	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: authentic assessment, civics, democracy, Government, Inquiry, interview, local politics
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
How Coal Changed Philadelphia: 1820-1865	William McGeehan
Keywords: antebellum Philadelphia, Coal, industrialization, ironworking, locomotives, mineral energy, nativism, poverty, social reform, steamships, textile mills, water pollution, whiteness
“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
Visual Music: Hip-Hop Style	Courtney Powers
Keywords: Authentic Audience, Authentic Music, Beyonce, Digital Music, Frederick Douglass, Intermedia, Jaffa, Jay Z, Kanye West, project based learning, Visual Music, Whole Music
Self-Representation is the Message, the Message is Power	Meredith Seung Mee Buse
Keywords: artists of color, Black artists, Black gaze, ekphrastic writing, empowerment, Frederick Douglass, personal narratives, poetry, portfolios, Portraiture, self-portraits, self-representation, visual vocabulary
Asian Americans in Education	Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: Asian Americans, culturally responsive teaching, immigration, model minority
Moments of Racialization	Megan McNamara
Keywords: “Asian American 1969”, “Asian American UCLA”, “Asian American”, “Muslim American”, “Theory of Knowledge Unit Plan”, “TOK Unit Plan”, History, Jesse Jackson “African American”, LGBT movement, race, Racialization, Stonewall