Unit Title	Author
2024
Identity and Immigration: An Upper Elementary Literacy Unit	Emma Connolly
Keywords: Creative Writing, fiction, Fifth-Grade, literacy, podcasts, poetry, upper elementary
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
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
You Have Power! Give It a Voice.	Jennifer Gallagher
Keywords: ability, assumptions, communication, Culture, disability, Identity, Immigrant, journey, language, prejudice
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
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
Multilingual Elementary Students’ Exploration of Place, Identity and Memory through Sensory Poetry and Imagery	Katie Miller
Keywords: cultural capital, English language, English language learners, Identity, Imagery, multilingual, Place, poetry
Teaching Literacy to Second Language Learners through Multi-Cultural Books	Michelle Jackson
Keywords: ELA, ELL, fiction books, Literature, LSS, Science, writing
Widening the Margins: A multi-genre unit	Christina D'Emma
Keywords: Antigone, Drama, drama strategies, effective speaking techniques, ghazal, Greek tragedy, immigration, Informational text, ode, one act play, pastiche, poetry, project based learning, Syrian refugees, U.S.-Mexico border, verse novel
Immigrant Children’s Literature: Reading and Writing in a Postcolonial Continuum	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Historically Responsive Literacy, Jazz Pedagogy, Postcolonial Literature, Young Adult Fiction
Daughters of Immigrants: Poetry, Spoken Word, and Collage Essays	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: border crossings, daughter of immigrants, literary collage, national identity, poetry, spoken word, women immigrants, women refugees
Can You Hear Me? Let’s Lift the Voices of Immigrant Students	Sondra Gonzalez
Keywords: cultural storytelling, culturally responsive teaching, English language acquisition immigration experiences, ESOL/ELL education, immigrant student narratives, multilingual learner empowerment
Mindfulness & Self-Soothing Techniques for Social Emotional Growth	Regina Hastings
2023
Building an Environmentally Equitable Community One School at Time	Tia Graves
Keywords: Climate Justice/Racism, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Equity, green stormwater infrastructure, Mitigation, resilience, Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Island Adaptation
Where Does All the Water Go?	John Daniel Hartzog
Keywords: global warming, Green Infrastructure, sustainability, Urban Landscape, water cycle
Hip Hop Hope: Unlocking English Language Learning with Rhythms and Rhymes	Rebecca Horner
Keywords: brain, Color Vowel Approach, healing, hip-hop, movement, Music
How Do We Envision A More Sustainable And Just Philadelphia?	Dr. Joe Alberti
Keywords: Air Pollution, fossil fuels, Renewable and Non-renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability
Climate Justice and Jurassic Park	Renae Curless
Keywords: climate change, climate justice, ELA, English, environmentalism, High School, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, science fiction
Natural Tendencies	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability