Unit Title	Author
2022
Visual Music: Hip-Hop Style	Courtney Powers
Keywords: Authentic Audience, Authentic Music, Beyonce, Digital Music, Frederick Douglass, Intermedia, Jaffa, Jay Z, Kanye West, project based learning, Visual Music, Whole Music
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
Moments of Racialization	Megan McNamara
Keywords: “Asian American 1969”, “Asian American UCLA”, “Asian American”, “Muslim American”, “Theory of Knowledge Unit Plan”, “TOK Unit Plan”, History, Jesse Jackson “African American”, LGBT movement, race, Racialization, Stonewall
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
Celebrating Asian Culture	Dorothy Martin
Keywords: Asia, Culture, customs, Diwali, holiday, Lunar New Year, New Year
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
Political Parties: Vehicles or Disruptors of American Democracy?	Alexander de Arana
Keywords: Democrats, interest groups, multiparty system, Political parties, Republicans, third parties, two-party system
“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
Impacts of Social Media on Democracy	Timothy Woods
Keywords: Big Tech, democracy, digital literacy, disinformation, misinformation, social media
Exploring Civic Engagement through Early Childhood Special Education	Alissa Capponi
Keywords: autistic support, community engagement, life skills, special education, vocational skills
Who Owns The Land?: The Sparrow’s Principle and Anti-Gentrification in Philadelphia	Tyriese James Holloway
Keywords: gentrification, Marita’s Bargain
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
Makerspaces: Where Precision and Play Intersect	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: collaboration, creative, creativity, High School, lessons, makerspace, play, problem solving, robot, soft robots, visual arts
Soft Robotics: An Introduction to Design Methodology and Engineering	Jessica Duong
Keywords: design, engineering, methodology, process, robot, robotics
Exploring Soft Robotics Through the Movie Big Hero 6	Charlette Walker
Keywords: Big Hero 6, digital literacy, English Language Arts, Google suite, robotics, soft robotics, soft robots, Technology
Bio-Design Fabrication and Soft Robots	Christopher Sweeney
Keywords: Bio-Design, Bio-Fabrication, design, Digital Fabrication, Mycelium, robotics, Robots, soft robotics