Unit Title	Author
2024
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
“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
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
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
2013
Poetry in the ESOL Classroom	Meg H. Flisek
Keywords: American poetry, childrens poetry, ESOL, poetry
2012
Staying Healthy by Participating in Dance and Sports: Ways of Exercise in Many Cultures	Meg H. Flisek
Keywords: dance, exercise, Health, sports
2008
Folktales: Trickster Stories Across Time – From African Ancestors to African American Rappers	Wilda Hayward
Keywords: African, African American, African Diaspora, African folktales, anthropology, ESOL, folktales, hip-hop, legacy, Middle Passage, rap, trickster stories, West African storytellers
2007
Tell Me About It: The Africa I Left Behind	Susan Bunch
Keywords: Africa, ESL, ESOL, storytelling, traditions, West Africa