Unit Title	Author
2022
Blood Money – The Making of Philadelphia’s Heroes	Deborah Wei
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
Who Tells Your Story? The Power of Debate and Discourse in the High School Classroom	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Christopher Columbus, debate, High School, Monument, Mural, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky
“Love Is The Message”*: Black Visual Art As Historically Responsive Literacy	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Black gaze, Critical Race Theory, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Ekphrastic poetry, Historically Responsive Literacy, Visual Art
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
Indigenous Voices: Crossroads between Monuments and Trees	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: Crazy Horse, indigenous people, Little Bighorn Battlefield., Monuments, Mount Rushmore, Penn Treaty Tree
“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
Using Mathematical Representations to Provide Student Choice and Enrichment	Kara Yanochko
Keywords: centers, choice, choice boards, enrichment, extension, flexibility, mathematics, menus, reasoning, rotations, student choice
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
Modular Arithmetic for Developing Fact Fluency	Tessa Murphy Nitkin
Keywords: addition, clock arithmetic, elementary, fact fluency, intervention, mathematics, modular arithmetic
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