Unit Title	Author
2024
Indomitable Voices: LGBTQIA+ Activism within the Latinx Civil Rights Movement	Marla Colondres
Keywords: “Latinidad”, activism, civil rights, discrimination, equality, intersectionality, Latino/a/x/é, LGBTQIA+, Stonewall riots
2022
Don Quixote, the Impossible Dream, and the American Street Empowerment Zone	Jenifer Félix
Keywords: Bilingual, Don Quijote, Don Quixote, Emigration, Empowerment Zones, Kensington, Monuments and Statues, Philadelphia Geography, Philadelphia history, Representation, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish as a Native Language
“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
Ciudades mexicanas en el pasado y el presente (Mexican Cities in the Past and Present)	Sean Carr
Keywords: colonial Mexico, Mexican cities, Mexican culture, modern MExico, Spanish 2
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
Hablando con McDonald’s and the Papi Store	: Sharon Sampson
Keywords: ¡Buenos días!, bodega, Foreign Language, greetings, McDonalds, Papi Store, señor, señora, señorita, Spanish, video
Storytelling for Language Acquisition	Patricia Rich
Keywords: Asian literature, Foreign Language, language acquisition, storytelling
Legends, Folktales and Urban Myths in Latinx Cultures	Gabrielle Tompkins
Keywords: folktales, latin culture, legends, storytelling, urban myths
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
2018
German Style Paper Folding and the Moravian Tradition	Patricia Rich
Keywords: archives, Bethlehem, colonial Pennsylvania, cross-curricular, diaspora, Fröbel, Froebel, geometry, German Bells, German script, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, love feast, modular stars, Moravian, Moravian Archives, Moravian College, Moravian Star, polyhedral Stars, pop-up, project-based, Sütterlin
2017
A Round of Rhythms	Patricia Rich
Keywords: African culture, African history, Afro-Cuban, Artístas y Músicos Latino Americanos, Charlie Parker, claves, community building, Cuban son, digital media, Dizzy Gillespie, djembe, drum circle, ensemble, hand drums, improv, improvisation, Jazz, karaoke, Mariel boatlift, Music, music literacy, rhythm, Son Cubano, Spanish, Tabadul, Taller Puertorriqueño