Unit Title	Author
2021
Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom	Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: biographies, female characters, gender biases, gender stereotypes, inclusivity, non-binary, positive gender role models, transgender
Discovering Our Community Assets	Sarah C. Beverly
Keywords: assets, community, English Language Arts, Philadelphia, service learning, social studies
All Voices Heard–Supporting the Multicultural Classroom	Carrie Ochs Toledo
Keywords: 5th grade, democratic classroom, diversity, ELA, Els, epistemic injustice, multicultural, storytelling
Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language	Greg Probst
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern
Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling
2020
African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights	Aisha Al-Muid
Keywords: African American, cinema, civil rights, film, freedom, Hair, Media
Dark Matters	Valerie Adams
Keywords: black hole, CER framework, dark fantastic, ebony elizabeth thomas, imagination, milky way galaxy
Storytelling for Freedom: How Black speculative stories can give us hope for a better future	Gina Dukes
Keywords: dark fantastic, freedom, hope, storytelling
Saving Ourselves: Exploring Identity and Imagined Realities Through Comics	Maddie Luebbert
Keywords: comics, dark fantastic, imagination, superhero genre, systemic racism
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, fiction, Literature, Reading, science fiction, social studies, the Hunger Games, writing
Speculative Fiction: Using an Ethnic and Cultural Lens for Story Telling	Peggy Marie Savage
Keywords: speculative fiction, storytelling, the dark fantastic
Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic	Ryann M. Rouse
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction
Speculative Poetry: Making Sense of the Present and Shaping the Future	Sarah Vieldhouse
Keywords: analysis, imagination, poetry, speculative poetry
Our New Mythologies Speculative Fiction Unit	Katherine Cohen Volin
Keywords: English Language Arts, mythology, speculative fiction
Studying Mexico City Through Many Layers	Meghan Agnew
Keywords: city systems, Mexico city, Mexico history
Liberated Through Literacy: The African American Pursuit of Equity in Education	Charlette Walker
Keywords: anti-literacy laws, Black educators, Black history, courage, education, ELA, literacy, neo-slavery, Reading, resilience, Slavery, systemic racism
Slavery: A Tough Lesson to Learn	Margo Pinckney-Wilson
Keywords: diversity, poetry, Slavery
The Slavery Project: Why It All Matters	Nora Karasanyi
Keywords: “Negro Spirituals”, abolition, abolitionist, awakening, bondage, discrimination, emancipation, existence, freedom – spiritual, inequality, justice, kidnapping, memory book, monologue, oppression, physical, proclamation, racism, Reverse Underground Railroad, Slavery, subservient, suffrage, Underground Railroad
Forging A Connection: Releasing the Bondage of Internalized Oppression through Quality Social Studies Instruction	Sondra W. Gonzalez
Keywords: abolitionist, internalized racism. vacant esteem. ever-present anger. racial socialization, Slavery
The Dis-Connection of Our Roots	Stephanie M. Robinson
Keywords: African American History, roots, Slavery