Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Asian Meditation Traditions Past and Present
Meditation as Liberation: Transforming our Schools and Ourselves	Elizabeth Cesarini	2024
Keywords: contemplative studies, EL, ELD, elementary, emergent bilinguals, English as a second language, English language development, English learner, English to speakers of other languages, ESL, ESOL, immigrant education, Meditation, Middle School, Mindfulness, ML, multilingual learners, project based learning, refugee education, SLIFE, student choice, students with limited or interrupted formal education, translanguaging
“Tell Me, How Can I Explain?”: Using 8th-Century Chinese Poetry to Meditate Responsibly in 21st-Century Classrooms	Danina Garcia	2024
Keywords: Chan Buddhism, Chinese History, Meditation, mental health, Mindfulness, poetry, Trauma-Informed Instruction
Mindfulness & Self-Soothing Techniques for Social Emotional Growth	Regina Hastings	2024
Seminar: Children’s Literature and the Immigrant Experience
Immigrant Children’s Literature: Reading and Writing in a Postcolonial Continuum	Geoffrey Winikur	2024
Keywords: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Historically Responsive Literacy, Jazz Pedagogy, Postcolonial Literature, Young Adult Fiction
Can You Hear Me? Let’s Lift the Voices of Immigrant Students	Sondra Gonzalez	2024
Keywords: cultural storytelling, culturally responsive teaching, English language acquisition immigration experiences, ESOL/ELL education, immigrant student narratives, multilingual learner empowerment
Seminar: Music and Healing in Philadelphia
MUSIC IS… JOY! LOVE! HEALING!	Karen Brinkley	2023
Keywords: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Music, Philadelphia International Records
Seminar: The Past, Present, and Future of Latinx Studies
Building a Community: A Celebration of Culture and Hispanic Heritage	Eileen Dowling	2024
Keywords: community, High School, Hispanic, Latina, Latine, Latino, LatinX, National Hispanic Heritage Month
Understanding Latinidades: Reclaiming the Rite/Right to America	Ryann Rouse	2024
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
Seminar: The Soviet Century: Russia, Socialism, and the Modern World
We Are Not Alone: Cold War (Black) Radical Unionism, Internationalism and the World After George Floyd	Tyriese Holloway	2024
Keywords: McCarthyism, social movements, socialism, solidarity, unions, USSR
Systems	James O'Karma	2024
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	2024
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