Below is a list of all the curriculum units written by Yale National Fellows from Chicago in national seminars.
2025
Yasmine Collins, Comics in the Classroom: Exploring Animal Adaptations
John Engelbreit, From Pathogens to Pandemics: Systems of Control
Zanneta Kubajak, Fight Map the Power: Radical Cartography in Music and History
Adriana Lopez, COVID-19 and Influenza and How They Affect Our Society and Future
Francisco Nuno, Alebrijes: Where Science Meets Art
Sharon Ponder, Environmental Racism Through Leaves, Legos and Lyrical Abstract
Emily Porter, La Biogeografía y La Biodiversidad en el Barrio Borikén
2024
Brandon Barr, Parody and Counter-Narrative in Art: Viewing Against the Grain
Stephany Jimenez, The Art of Understanding and Connecting through Butterflies
Zanneta Kubajak, Freedom Dreaming: Critical Thought Through Imagination
Daphne Meyer, Using Dr. Seuss to Teach about Environmental Conservation
Sharon Ponder, Captain Underpants, Poetry Outside the Box
2023
Brandon Barr, Why Nature? Noticing and Writing in the Wild
Nancy V. Ibarra, Environmental Injustice in Chicago’s Southwest Side: Pollution, Past and Present
Adriana Lopez, This is America: Images and Histories of Racism and Exploitation
Jessica Mason, Teaching Elementary Fractions Using Fractions Strips
Ricardo Moreno, Self-Identity through Nature and Magic
2022
Brandon Barr, The Child Migrant: Evaluating the Journey to the United States through Film and Nonfiction Text
Karen Cameron, Exploration: The Search for the Next Habitable Planet
Stephany Jimenez, Cultivating a Growth Mindset through Film Studies
2021
Brandon Barr, Democracy: The Ancient World and Modern Implications
Taissa Lau, The Future of Urban Agriculture
Sharon Ponder-Ballard, How Hip-Hop Moved the Crowd to Social Activism
Tiffany S. Robinson, Democracy and Inequality: To Be or Not to Be?
Alexandra Wagner, The Sun and Chicago: Its Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
2020
Brandon Barr, Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
Taissa Lau, Confronting the Plastic Wasteland through Engineering
Ricardo Moreno, Investigating Surfaces and Water Runoff in Urban Areas
Tiffany S. Robinson, When downward Mobility Strikes
Raymond Salazar, Seeing the World through Race-Colored Glasses: Guiding High-School Journalism Students to Report in a Race-Conscious Way to Create a Race-Conscious World
Jacqueline L. Travis, Nothing Without Us: Bringing Justice to Public Policy
2019
Brandon Barr, The Death of the Five Paragraph Essay: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay in Middle School
Laura M. Gillihan, Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
Drew Katti, Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
Taissa Lau, Assessing Chicago’s Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time
Ricardo Moreno, Area, Surface Area and Volume: From Misconceptions to Skyscrapers
Raymond Salazar, How High-School Students Can Echo Professional Writers in Their Own Personal Essays
Leas Stenson, A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
2018
Brandon Barr, The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
Aaron Bingea, Answering Big Questions by Finally Understanding Big Numbers
Laura Gillihan, Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
Nancy Ibarra, The Power and Responsibility of Human Changes to Biology: Malaria, Mosquitoes, and CRISPR Technology
Stephany Jimenez, Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
Sharon Ponder, This is America: Restorative Peace Circles and the decline of Suspensions and Expulsions
Lea Stenson, Wonderstruck: Disability Awareness Through Visual Storytelling
2017
Brandon Barr, Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
Matthew D’Agostino, Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
Alexa Freshour, Cure for the Common Cold: Fantasy or Reality?
Nancy Ibarra, HeLa Cells, Cervical Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine
Chris Moy, Science of Sugar
Jeffrey Rossiter, Introduction of the Variable by Forming and Interpreting Expressions
Meghan Senjanin, Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels
2016
Brandon Barr, Easing on Down the Road: Reading Critically, Writing Fantastically
Maureen Becker, Creating Connections to Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire
Aaron Bingea, Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers on the Number Line
Carla Jones, Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
Mary Moreno, Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
Ashley Pate, The Menominee Journey to Self Determination
Jeffrey Rossiter, Rational Number Placement on the Number Line
Amanda Snow, Understanding Earth’s History and Geologic Time through Evolution
2015
Aaron Bingea, Developing Proportional Reasoning
Joshua Lerner, Math at School: Modeling Addition and Subtraction in Everyday Classroom Scenarios
E. M. Miller, Telling Stories: Place, Space, and Memory in Chicago’s Parks
Molly Myers, You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
Nadra Ruff, Different Cultures in Chicago’s Neighborhoods: Chinese and Mexican Communities
Sarah Schneider, Statistical Methods and Health in Chicago
Sarah Weidmann, Character in Hamlet: Family & Loss
Keisha Wheat, Words of Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance
2014
Anne Agostinelli, Fearless Problem Solvers Can “Express” Themselves Mathematically
Brandon Barr, Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
Molly Myers, “Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago’s Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography“
Kathleen Tysiak, Making Connections in Science: Viruses and the Immune System
Sarah Weidmann, Auditorium Building, Chicago: ‘The Temple of Peace’
Alveda Zahn, Reading Art in Language Arts: Characterizing Human Atrocities from the Slave Trade to the Second World War
2013
Laura Kessinger, The Evolution of Genetic Engineering
Andrea Kulas, Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
E. M. Miller, Interpreting the Urban Landscape
Raymond Smith, Other’s Mistakes Don’t Have to be Your Own
Amanda Targgart, Challenging Perceptions: Persepolis Beyond the American Lens
Sarah Weidmann, Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered
2012
Anne Agostinelli, Quantifying Solutions to Reduce Our Food’s Environmental Impact
Daniel Holder, Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
Derrick Kimbrough, The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
Andrea Kulas, Teenage Dream: Consuming Subtext
John Miklaszewski, Toxic Effects of Mercury, Alcohol, and Cannabis on Human Cellular Function
Joseph Mitacek, Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
Molly Myers, Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future
2011
Razan Almiladi, From Inquiry to Interpretation: A Passage through the Sonnet
Jennifer Fleck, The Problems and Potential of Portable Power
Andrea Kulas, Lyric Poetry: The Sonnet
Autumn Laidler, Exploring Valuable Places: Extended Place Value Concepts into Operations
Andrew Martinek, Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
Molly Myers, Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
Kristin Peterson, The Perfect Team—Our Heart and Lungs
2010
Elwanda Butler, Putting the Pieces Together
Aisha Collins, Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
Madeline Keleher, Human Health: Correlation, Causation, and Evolution
Laura Kessinger, Nutritional Adaptations and Nutritional Choices
Andrea Kulas, Biography through the Use of Document-Based Questions
Adam Kubey, Educating Tomorrow’s Orators
Molly Myers, Who is Sylvia Plath?–An Inquiry-Based Biography Primer
2009
Myrna Alvarez, ‘How Much Is Too Much?’ Teaching Measurement and Solution Concentration through Bioaccumulation and Levels of Toxicity
Ann-Marie Chiyeni, Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water
Joseph Irizarry, Effects of Rates of Change and Accumulated Change in a Throw-Away Society
Aleco Julius, ‘Life’s But a Poor Player:’ Macbeth and Performing Ourselves
Laura Kessinger, Unconventional Transportation
Adam Kubey, Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
Andrea Kulas, Discovering Voice
2008
Myrna Alvarez, What Is She Eating?
Adam Kubey, Road to the White House: Campaign for the Presidency
Kristin Peterson, The Way Food Works: Analyzing the Short and Long Term Effects of What We Eat
Sharon Ponder, ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’: An Analysis of Social Change “Hope” through Voices of Hip-Hop
Pamela Ronson, Religious Elements in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
2007
Angel Johnson, Linear Expressions and Evaluations
Sharon Ponder, Using Film and Literature to examine The Great black Migration: An Analysis of “A Raisin in the Sun” through poetic voices
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