Unit Title	Author
2021
Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom	Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: biographies, female characters, gender biases, gender stereotypes, inclusivity, non-binary, positive gender role models, transgender
Tale of Two Cities: Cultural Capital of Hip Hop in Kenya and Philadelphia	Jeri Johnson, M.S. Ed., M.S. School Psychology
Keywords: black placemaking, Charles Dickens, Chris Emdin, COVID-19, critical hip-hop pedagogy (CHHP), Elizabeth Acevedo, hip-hop music, Kenya Vision 2030, mind-mapping, musical patterns, Philadelphia Vision 2035
How do renewable energy sources reduce our reliance on fossil fuel sources of energy?	Dr. Joe Alberti
Keywords: energy, fossil fuel, middle school science, renewable energy
Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language	Greg Probst
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern
Framing Africa with 5 Music Narratives	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: Africa, African music, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, freedom songs, griots, gumboot, hip-hop, Kenya, Mali, national anthems, protest dances, protest songs, Pygmies, South Africa, stepping, Zap Mama
Exploring Our City Through Images, Poetry, and Music	Katherine Volin
Keywords: class, gender, Music, poetry, race
Using Poetry to Confront Neighborhood Representation and Gentrification	Sally O’Brien
Keywords: class, gender, gentrification, High School, intersectionality, landscape literacy, media analysis, metaphor, place-based learning, poetry, race
Discovering Our Community Assets	Sarah C. Beverly
Keywords: assets, community, English Language Arts, Philadelphia, service learning, social studies
All Voices Heard–Supporting the Multicultural Classroom	Carrie Ochs Toledo
Keywords: 5th grade, democratic classroom, diversity, ELA, Els, epistemic injustice, multicultural, storytelling
Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling
2020
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, fiction, Literature, Reading, science fiction, social studies, the Hunger Games, writing
Lasting Effects of Slavery	Victor M. Pomales Jr.
Keywords: African American History, film, Slavery, social studies
Speculative Fiction: Using an Ethnic and Cultural Lens for Story Telling	Peggy Marie Savage
Keywords: speculative fiction, storytelling, the dark fantastic
Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic	Ryann M. Rouse
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction
Speculative Poetry: Making Sense of the Present and Shaping the Future	Sarah Vieldhouse
Keywords: analysis, imagination, poetry, speculative poetry
Our New Mythologies Speculative Fiction Unit	Katherine Cohen Volin
Keywords: English Language Arts, mythology, speculative fiction
Studying Mexico City Through Many Layers	Meghan Agnew
Keywords: city systems, Mexico city, Mexico history
Liberated Through Literacy: The African American Pursuit of Equity in Education	Charlette Walker
Keywords: anti-literacy laws, Black educators, Black history, courage, education, ELA, literacy, neo-slavery, Reading, resilience, Slavery, systemic racism
Slavery: A Tough Lesson to Learn	Margo Pinckney-Wilson
Keywords: diversity, poetry, Slavery
The Slavery Project: Why It All Matters	Nora Karasanyi
Keywords: “Negro Spirituals”, abolition, abolitionist, awakening, bondage, discrimination, emancipation, existence, freedom – spiritual, inequality, justice, kidnapping, memory book, monologue, oppression, physical, proclamation, racism, Reverse Underground Railroad, Slavery, subservient, suffrage, Underground Railroad