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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

You Have Power! Give It a Voice.

Jennifer Gallagher
Keywords: ability, assumptions, communication, Culture, disability, Identity, Immigrant, journey, language, prejudice

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

Teaching Literacy to Second Language Learners through Multi-Cultural Books

Michelle Jackson
Keywords: ELA, ELL, fiction books, Literature, LSS, Science, writing

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

Can You Hear Me? Let’s Lift the Voices of Immigrant Students

Sondra Gonzalez
Keywords: cultural storytelling, culturally responsive teaching, English language acquisition immigration experiences, ESOL/ELL education, immigrant student narratives, multilingual learner empowerment

Mindfulness & Self-Soothing Techniques for Social Emotional Growth

Regina Hastings

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

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

Climate Justice and Jurassic Park

Renae Curless
Keywords: climate change, climate justice, ELA, English, environmentalism, High School, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, science fiction

“Rare Ability and Devotion”: Elizabeth Tyler, first visiting Black nurse of Philadelphia, as Counter-Narrative

Danina Garcia
Keywords: African American History, Henrietta Lacks, Medical History, Medicine, Nursing History, Philadelphia, Tuberculosis

What is Home?

Jeannette Moon
Keywords: Du Bois, Genre Analysis, Hansberry, Home, mapping, maps, Raisin in the Sun, Seventh Ward, storytelling, survey, Wayward Lives

A Class Act

Margo A. Pinckney
Keywords: data collection, race relations

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

Unraveling the Block: DuBois, The Seventh Ward and Our Responsibility

Tyriese James Holloway
Keywords: activism, Heterogeneity, Place, Protagonism, space

Correcting Epistemic Injustices and Memorializing 19th Century Black Women

Shaquita Smith
Keywords: black women, epistemic injustice, historically marginalized voices, marginalized groups, Monuments, murals, Sociology, The Old Seventh Ward, The Philadelphia Negro, using sociology to study history, W.E.B. Du Bois

DuBois and the Seventh Ward: A Study of The Philadelphia Negro and Its Counternarrative of Black People’s Evolution in Urban America

Ryann Rouse
Keywords: author’s purpose, cite evidence, Compare and contrast, high school ELA, historical fiction, informational text analysis, Philadelphia, primary sources, Seventh Ward, social science, summarization, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. DuBois

The School on Greenberg Street: Using The Philadelphia Negro and The House on Mango Street as models to tell the story of a neighborhood

Katherine Cohen Volin
Keywords: 7th Ward, The House on Mango Street, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois

Soundtrack to Our Class: Reading, Writing, and Speaking about Music

Emma Connolly
Keywords: community building, English Language Arts, figurative language, Identity, Middle School, Reading, social-emotional learning, theme, writing

Songs in the Key of MY Life

Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, lyrics, Morning Meeting, Music, Playlists, Socio-emotional Learning, The Brain