Curriculum Units

Below is a list of all the curriculum units written in national seminars by Yale National Fellows from Texas.

2025

Debra Jenkins, Clock It: Speech Bubbles, Borders, and Belonging
Willie J. Keener, Through the Lenses
Lori Thornton, Do Masks work?: Analyzing and Evaluating Mathematical Data
Vickie Anne Young Weatherspoon, A Journey through the Rural Tapestry of Our City Using Maps

2024

Debra Jenkins, Tupac the Poet and Lyricist: The State of Texas vs. Emergent Bilinguals
Willie J. Keener, The Eye of the Beholder: Climate Change Awareness
Raymond Paul Marshall, Teaching Theater in a Minority-Majority Classroom

2023

Debra D. Jenkins, An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings
Raymond Paul Marshall, Colours of Humanity: Artistic representations of the “Other”

2021

Debra D. Jenkins, Can They Escape from Hot Cheetos & Takis? Black Appetite, White Food: Examining Issues of Race, Democracy, and Place

2020

Chelsea Best, Strands of One Braided Cord: How Humans Are Impacting Biodiversity Through the Spread of Disease
Debra D. Jenkins, No Lye, Nappy or Straight, People Still Gon’ Hate: Getting to the Root of the Issue; Colorblindness and Neutrality within Hairstyles and Hair Types
Virginia Redwine Johnson, Mask On: Clearing the Air: the Challenges of Indoor Air Pollution on Urban Health and Academic Performance

2019

Debra D. Jenkins, You Ain’t Gotta Write Like You Speak: Talking White, While Livin’ Brown