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2024


The Pulse of the Land: Using the Arts to Teach About War

Keeler Park
Keywords: Art, conflict, Creative Writing, Culture, emotion, History, Literary Analysis, military, Military History, poetry, primary source, secondary source, social studies, social-emotional learning, war, world history

Economics, Abundance, and Value, or How Much Is Too Much Salami?

Chloe Glynn
Keywords: agriculture, choice, economics, environmental, environmentalism, History, meat, Politics, responsibility, value

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

Estamos aquí: El ayer, hoy, y mañana de la historia latinx de filadelfia / We are here: The yesterday, today, and tomorrow of Philadelphia’s Latinx history

Jenifer Felix
Keywords: Bilingual, Demographics, Latinx Communities, Latinx History, Philadelphia Geography, Philadelphia history, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish as a Native Language

Hispanic Heritage Month for All: 31 Days of LatinXellence

Alima McKnight
Keywords: Culture, elementary, Hispanic, Indigenous, interactive notebook, Latina, Latine, Latino, LatinX, National Hispanic Heritage Month, social studies

Social Change Through Meditation and Community Building in the Classroom

Shaquita Smith
Keywords: Bhavana, Buddha, community, compassion, dharma, empathy, equanimity, Meditation, meta (Metacognitive thinking) meditation, sangha, Three Jewels

Exploring Identity and Latin(a/o/x/e/@) Culture(s): Archeology of Self

Robert Rivera-Amezola
Keywords: “Latinidad”, Culture, digital poster, expression, LatinX, Personal Identity, racial literacy

Examining the East and West through the Brezhnev Doctrine

Alexander de Arana
Keywords: Brezhnev Doctrine, Cold War, Leonid Brezhnev, Prague Spring, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, World War Two

Peace and War

Deborah Wei
Keywords: Akan, China, Empire, feminism, Gandhi, Greece, hegemony, Mandate of Heaven, Meditation, meta, Pacifism, Peace, peacebuilding, peacemaking, Rome, Satyagraha, war

Nosotros la Gente

Theresa Eck
Keywords: Americanize, Boriken, civic rights and responsibilities, Dr. Albizu Campos, imperialism, insular cases, Jesus Colón, Jones Act, Lolita Lebrón, migration, military contributions, Philadelphia history, picture analysis, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, Young Lords

Systems

James O'Karma
Keywords: adam smith, capitalism, communism, economic systems, feudalism, History, karl marx, Literature, Marxism, monopoly

The Appeal of Communism to African-Americans in the United States

Bill Chenevert
Keywords: Black Communists, Black history, capitalism, Claude McKay, communism, economics, Friedrich Engels, Jim Crow South, karl marx, Langston Hughes, McCarthyism, Paul Robeson, racism, socialism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, The Great Migration, the USSR

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

Daughters of Immigrants: Poetry, Spoken Word, and Collage Essays

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: border crossings, daughter of immigrants, literary collage, national identity, poetry, spoken word, women immigrants, women refugees

“¿Pero las manos de quién?: Using cooking as archaeology to explore Indigenous voice, the Alkebulan diaspora and identity in the Spanish language classroom

Alicia Conquest
Keywords: Abya Yala, Alkebulan, Cooking in class, Decolonization, Foodways, Sancocho, World Language

Mind-Less Meditation

Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Asian Meditation, Emotional Support, mental health, Multicultural Science, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Well-being

The Power of Food Stories

Anna Herman
Keywords: cuisine, Culture, food culture, food stories, global food, migration, seed stories, supply chain

2023


Environmental Justice in Philadelphia

Deborah Wei
Keywords: community organizing, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Philadelphia refineries, power analysis, racism, stakeholders

Natural Tendencies

Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability

Where Does All the Water Go?

John Daniel Hartzog
Keywords: global warming, Green Infrastructure, sustainability, Urban Landscape, water cycle