Unit Title	Author
2024
De/Constructing and Re/Constructing Mexican and Chicanx Identities Through Myths	Feven Yared
Keywords: Aztlán, Chicanx/a/o/@, Indigenismo, La Llorona, La Malinche, La Raza, Mestizaje, Mestizo, Mexican history, Mexican/a/o/@, Myths, Teaching culture in Spanish, Tenochtitlan
Building a Community: A Celebration of Culture and Hispanic Heritage	Eileen Dowling
Keywords: community, High School, Hispanic, Latina, Latine, Latino, LatinX, National Hispanic Heritage Month
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
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
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
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
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
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
We Are Not Alone: Cold War (Black) Radical Unionism, Internationalism and the World After George Floyd	Tyriese Holloway
Keywords: McCarthyism, social movements, socialism, solidarity, unions, USSR
Economics, Abundance, and Value, or How Much Is Too Much Salami?	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: agriculture, choice, economics, environmental, environmentalism, History, meat, Politics, responsibility, value
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
Meditation as Liberation: Transforming our Schools and Ourselves	Elizabeth Cesarini
Keywords: contemplative studies, EL, ELD, elementary, emergent bilinguals, English as a second language, English language development, English learner, English to speakers of other languages, ESL, ESOL, immigrant education, Meditation, Middle School, Mindfulness, ML, multilingual learners, project based learning, refugee education, SLIFE, student choice, students with limited or interrupted formal education, translanguaging
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
Toolbox for Tranquility: Using Meditation and Mindfulness to Ease Anxiety in the Classroom	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: anxiety, breathing, coloring, guided imagery, High School, Meditation, mental health, Mindfulness, relaxation, test anxiety, walking meditation
“Tell Me, How Can I Explain?”: Using 8th-Century Chinese Poetry to Meditate Responsibly in 21st-Century Classrooms	Danina Garcia
Keywords: Chan Buddhism, Chinese History, Meditation, mental health, Mindfulness, poetry, Trauma-Informed Instruction
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
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
Identity and Immigration: An Upper Elementary Literacy Unit	Emma Connolly
Keywords: Creative Writing, fiction, Fifth-Grade, literacy, podcasts, poetry, upper elementary
You Have Power! Give It a Voice.	Jennifer Gallagher
Keywords: ability, assumptions, communication, Culture, disability, Identity, Immigrant, journey, language, prejudice