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Unit TitleAuthor

2023


Songs in the Key of MY Life

Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, lyrics, Morning Meeting, Music, Playlists, Socio-emotional Learning, The Brain

Natural Tendencies

Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability

2022


Cantor Sets: Functions in the Infinite Realm

Samuel Paul Hickok
Keywords: Cantor, Cantor sets, cardinality, functions, infinite sets, infinity, irrational, natural numbers, rational

Latin Asians: Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in Latin America

Alisha Davis
Keywords: Culture, ethnicity, High School, Identity, Latino, panethnicity, project based learning, race, social studies education

Engaging Philadelphia’s Ward System: How democratic is our system?

Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: authentic assessment, civics, democracy, Government, Inquiry, interview, local politics

The Mystery of Dividing by Zero

Catherine Michini
Keywords: Division, division by grouping, division by repeated subtraction, infinity, math history, number representation, operations with zero, undefined

Considering Cultural Communities in the Middle School Literacy Classroom

Emma Connolly
Keywords: assimilation, comprehension instruction, Culture, discussion, ethnicity, graphic novels, Identity, Middle School, special education, vocabulary instruction

How Coal Changed Philadelphia: 1820-1865

William McGeehan
Keywords: antebellum Philadelphia, Coal, industrialization, ironworking, locomotives, mineral energy, nativism, poverty, social reform, steamships, textile mills, water pollution, whiteness

“Teaching Black visual culture through PBL”

Alla Dolderer
Keywords: African American culture, Art, Black culture, Black History month, ekphratic poems, moving pictures, photography, video clips, visual culture

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

Evaluate the Power of a “Heart on Fire”

Theresa Eck
Keywords: analyzing historical evidence, APUSH, challenging dominant narratives, dominant narrative, HIPP, nation state, progressivism, Reconstruction

Asian Americans in Education

Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: Asian Americans, culturally responsive teaching, immigration, model minority

Old City Philadelphia

Mary Patricia Lavin

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

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