Unit Title	Author
2025
Celebrating Identity, Culture, and Diversity Through Children’s Literature	Eman Metwaly
Keywords: belonging, Culture, diversity, English as a Second Language (ESL), Family Heritage, Home-School Connections, Identity, Multilingual Learner, social-emotional learning, storytelling
Children’s Literature and Language: Bilingual Books, Food Stories & Cultural Inquiry	Diane Zimmerman
Keywords: Bilingual classroom strategies, Bilingual education, Bilingual picture books, children’s literature, cultural identity, culturally responsive teaching, Dual language learners, Emotional literacy, ESOL lesson plans, Family recipes Food stories, Inclusive literacy instruction for ELLs., Latinx children's books, multilingual learners, Newcomer students, social-emotional learning, storytelling, translanguaging
2024
Boundaries, Borders, and Sliding Glass Doors: Where do we come from, and where are we going?	Emma Steinheimer
Keywords: Borders, Boundaries, children’s literature, Creative Writing, Critical Literacy, cultural identity, fiction, place-based learning, poetry, storytelling, Writing Workshop
2023
What is Home?	Jeannette Moon
Keywords: Du Bois, Genre Analysis, Hansberry, Home, mapping, maps, Raisin in the Sun, Seventh Ward, storytelling, survey, Wayward Lives
2022
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
2021
Critical Interventions into the Single Story of Africa	Pearl Jonas
Keywords: Africa, African American History, Bias, Culture, Identity, Music, narrative, perspective, project-based, Single story, stereotypes, storytelling
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
Storytelling for Freedom: How Black speculative stories can give us hope for a better future	Gina Dukes
Keywords: dark fantastic, freedom, hope, storytelling
Speculative Fiction: Using an Ethnic and Cultural Lens for Story Telling	Peggy Marie Savage
Keywords: speculative fiction, storytelling, the dark fantastic
2019
Dawning of A Sunrise	Valerie Adams
Keywords: Critical thinking, Drama, ELA, fables, folktales, frame story, frame tale, Middle East, multi-intelligence, narrative, pair, Personal Identity, poetry, Reading, share, short stories, South Asia, storytelling, think, writing
Exploring Culture and Storytelling with Fairy Tales	Cher Baylor
Keywords: Culture, fairy tales, social studies, storytelling
The Hero’s Journey in The Conference of the Birds and The Name Jar	Paul Dale
Keywords: reading comprehension, storytelling, vocabulary
Digital Passport: Exploring geography through folktales and digital storytelling	Tia D. Larese
Keywords: folktales, Geography, stories, storytelling
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
Celebrating Cultures of the World Through Reading and Writing Folktales	Katherine Volin
Keywords: cultures, folktales, Reading, storytelling, writing
2014
Getting Stuck in the Telling: The Dichotomous Nature of Urgent Tales Analyzing and Crafting Accounts that Bear Witness	Julie Mikolajewski
Keywords: consumption approach, History, Holocaust, literacy, Literature, storytelling
2012
What’s That You Say Neighbor?	Lynn Gourinski Fahr
Keywords: Civil War, storytelling, The Great Migration
2008
Love to Tell the Story: West African Expressions Come to West Philadelphia	Bonnee Breese
Keywords: African people, cross-cultural understanding, cultural and historical backgrounds, discover and explore, dismantle stigmas and stereotypes, English Language Arts, oral storytelling, Overbrook neighborhoods of West Philadelphia, storytelling, written storytelling