Unit Title	Author
2022
Living a Values Driven Life	Regina Hastings
Keywords: ELA, Movie Analysis, Novel Analysis, Self Improvement, social justice, values, vocabulary
“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
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
Asian Americans in Media: Representation & Identity	Tia Larese
Keywords: Digital Learning, diversity, elementary, ELL, English language learners, Immigrant, Intercultural Classroom, Misrepresentation, Representation, social justice
The Immigrant Experience through Literature and History	Sarah Vieldhouse
Keywords: ELA, English, immigration, Literature Circles, Middle School, Research
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
Awake the Uniqueness in Me!	Dr. David L. Turner
Keywords: Barrack Obama, Black culture, Black gaze, black hair, Black history, Fredrick Douglass, James Baldwin and Tina Campt, Toni Morrison, white gaze
Sing, Unburied, Sing	Renae Curless
Keywords: American Literature, American South, Ekphrastic poetry, English Language Arts, Film analysis, Found poetry, High school English, Mississippi Delta, Moonlight, Natasha Tretheway, Parchman Prison, Sing, Unburied Sing
“Love Is The Message”*: Black Visual Art As Historically Responsive Literacy	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Black gaze, Critical Race Theory, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Ekphrastic poetry, Historically Responsive Literacy, Visual Art
“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
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
Who Owns The Land?: The Sparrow’s Principle and Anti-Gentrification in Philadelphia	Tyriese James Holloway
Keywords: gentrification, Marita’s Bargain
Finding Your Voice… then Shouting!	Nicole Flores
Keywords: 5th Grade ELA, activism, comprehension, Novel, poetry, Research, social justice
Everybody Has a Story….What is Yours?	Tasha Russell
Keywords: banned, Critical Race Theory, digital stories, personal narrative, student voice
Exceptional Women: We See You!	Karen Brinkley
Keywords: Achievement Gap, Black joy, culturally, culturally relevant, diversity, Literature, socially transformative curation
“Reading as Writer: Critical Creative Race Thinking Following Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”	Gregory Probst
Keywords: African American, Africanist., American Africanism, American Literature, blackness, Critical Race Theory, cultural identity, English Language Arts, hybridity, imagination, intersectionality, literary criticism, playing in the dark, queer theory, reading as a writer, Recitatif, teacherless writing workshops, The Crucible, third space, Toni Morrison, whiteness
Modern and Contemporary African American Women Poets	Monica Rowley
Keywords: African American, Black Poets, context, Creative Writing, form, function, language, literary devices, poetry, Women poets, women writers, Workshop
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
What does it mean to be a Migrant?: Using mentor texts to understand migration	Katherine Volin
Keywords: immigration, migration, poetry, travel