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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

Exploring Charlotte’s Black History

March 1, 2022 – 3:37 pm

Sade Wright, 3rd Grade, Parker Academic Center

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

Let’s Take a Walk through the Community

March 1, 2022 – 3:30 pm

Monique Hall, 4th Grade, Devonshire Elementary School

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Black Girl Magic (Mis)Understood: Representations and Perceptions of Black Women and Girls in the Education System

The Angry Black Girl: Misinformed and Misled

January 27, 2021 – 10:28 am

Antiona Green, 3rd Grade, Oakhurst STEAM Academy

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 4: WWI and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century

Teaching Hard History: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

January 26, 2021 – 11:01 am

Jennifer Myers, Social Studies, Mallard Creek High

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 1: African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

Citizenship: Developing Intentional Multi-Racial Relationships

January 20, 2021 – 12:11 pm

Wendy Mueller, Language Arts, Starmount Academy of Excellence

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 1: African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

Self-Esteem: Uplifting Young Black Females Using African American Poetry

January 20, 2021 – 12:06 pm

Vashti A Mosby, Language Arts, Northridge Middle

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 1: African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

January 20, 2021 – 11:45 am

Marie Calabro, 4th Grade, Pinewood Elementary

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Childhood and the City Space in Literature

The Backwards Mirror Called Academic Literature: African American Children Need to See Their Reflection

January 31, 2020 – 12:39 pm

Nichole Robinson-McLeod, Language Arts, Mountain Island Lake Academy

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Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

The Great Depression: How the Black and Brown People Endured it All

May 1, 2014 – 7:59 pm

Jashonai Payne, Fifth Grade, Clear Creek Elementary School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Mirror, Window, Blueprint: Identity, the Other, and Social Constructs in African American and Hispanic Literature

February 25, 2014 – 5:03 pm

Stefanie Carter-Dodson, Language Arts, Martin Luther King Middle School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Crafting Urban Stories Through Mixed Media

February 25, 2014 – 5:00 pm

Gloria Brinkman, Visual Arts, North Mecklenburg High School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

We Want Live Words: The Black Arts Movement and Its Hip Hop Progeny

March 29, 2013 – 2:18 pm

Mark Buzzee, Language Arts, Jay M. Robinson Middle School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Reading African American Lives

Making Connections: Is There a Correlation between the Written Word and the Lives of African American Children’s Authors?

March 5, 2013 – 4:56 pm

Lysa Archer Craig, Hon. English Language Arts, Bailey Middle School

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Curriculum Units Vol 2: Reading African American Lives

The Story Behind the Storyteller: Getting to Know the Person Behind the Ink

March 5, 2013 – 4:49 pm

Lakeirra DeShaun Booth, English Language Arts, African American History, Randolph IB Middle School

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