This page contains links to all curriculum units written by National Fellows from Tulsa.
2025
Eric Jackson, Defensible: The Art of Writing a Persuasive Argumentative Essay
Tara McKee, Don’t Let the Robots Win: The Importance of Writer’s Craft and Revision
Donovan Spotz, Constructing by Deconstructing Anatomy
Angela Sprigby, Illustrated Insights: Enhancing Comprehension Through Paired Readings
2024
Jana Jimison, The Future of Renewable Energy and Solar Electric Innovations
Tara McKee, Transforming Poetry of Witness to Performance of Protest
Donovan Spotz, Force to Energy: Increased efficiency through intelligent design
2023
Tina Berry, Perspectives on Race: Slavery and its Legacies in Art
Catherine Fee, Homeland to Hometown: Restorative Awareness in Writing About Nature
Akela Leach, Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
Tara McKee, Using Objects and Artifacts to Understand The Crucible
Jennifer Erin Rorex, Next Generation Learners to Leaders: Intro to Environmental Justice
Julie Skrzypczak, Improving Proportional Reasoning = Improving High School Math Success
2022
Cinde Berkowitz, Public Diplomacy and Consumerism During the Early Cold War
Tina Berry, Film and Art: Setting the Stage with Framing
Robert Boughner, Will They Survive? Climate Change and its Impact on Biodiversity
Akela Leach, Themes in Encanto and Wadjda
Tara Waugh, Things Fall Apart: Piecing it all Back Together Using Contemporary Black Art
2021
Sophia Alvarez, “Exploring Belonging and Exclusion through Ethnography“
Cinde Berkowitz, “Breaking Barriers: The Fight for Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Civil Rights“
Tina Berry, “Our Sun: Through Scientific, Cultural, and Artistic Lenses“
Laura Grisham, “Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism“
Christianna Loza, “Math by Design; Creating Innovators in a Post-Pandemic Classroom“
Cristina Mejia, “Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History“
Tara Waugh, “From Handmaids to Riot Grrrls, using Fiction to Understand Social Movements“
Krista Waldron, “Medical Inequality in America: Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Study, and Covid 19“
2020
Luis Bello, “The Chemistry of Energy“
Sally Cannizzaro, “Evaluating and Mitigating Stormwater Runoff Contamination“
Cristina Mejia, “Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom“
Hunter Najera, “Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance“
Krista Waldron, “The History within Toni Morrison’s Sula“
2019
Cinde Berkowitz, “The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy“
Tina Berry, “SmArt Math: Paper Polyominoes and Ceramic Tetradic Cuboids“
Sally Cannizzaro, “Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa“
Akela Leach, “Personal Essays and Storytelling: Trevor Noah, Nelson Mandela, and Nadine Gordimer“
Krystal Medina, “Islands and Their Energy Needs“
Lianne Aubert Sanfeliz, “A Pathway to Understanding Area and Perimeter“
Krista Waldron, “Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students“
2018
Lynette J. Shouse, “Estimating Big Numbers: Do You Really Understand Them?“
Thomas Teague, “Vaccines and the Outbreak of Nonsense“
Tara Waugh, “Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar“
Krista Waldron, “The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health“
2017
Jo Anne (Stafford) Flory, “Making Our Communities Visible: Poetry, Rhetoric and Social Justice“
Robin Harris, “Rise and Bind: Substituting binders and flours in pancakes“
Patrice Henry, “Uncovering Individuality in a Scripted World“
Jessica R. Johnson, “Germs Attack!“
Marissa E. King, “Identity in Transition: Narrative Repair for Changing Times“
Annie Overose McGill, “Matter Chatter: Exploring the effect heat has on states of matter using the five senses“
Xiomara Mayté Pacheco, “‘Simplifying’ the Issues with Expressions“
Lynette J. Shouse, “An American Myth: How Pictures and Texts Have Changed the Narrative of the American Revolution“
Tara Waugh, “Poetic Visions and Versions of America“
Krista Waldron, “Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy“
2016
Corrina Sue Christmas, “Getting Graphic about Writing“
Jo Anne (Stafford) Flory, “Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery“
Patricia Leann Hodge, “Relationships of African Americans and Creeks in Oklahoma to 1936“
Jessica R. Johnson, “Plant, Watch, and Grow“
Tim Smith, “Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative“
Thomas Teague, “Transitional Forms: The Evidence for Evolution by Natural Selection“
Krista Waldron, “Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality“
2015
Justin Robert Brady, “The Question of Desire: A Comparison of Love in Shakespeare“
Corrina Sue Christmas, “Taking the Problems out of Story Problems“
Dawn Bernadette Curtis, “Effects of Carcinogens on Cells“
Margaret M. Deweese, “Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock“
Patricia Leann Hodge, “Looking at Desegregation through Local Narratives: A Case Study at Tulsa Central High School“
Christy Marie Schmidt-Applegate, “Planting a Seed for Problem Solving“
Arcadia A. Teel, “Life in the DDR through Film: German II“
Krista Baxter Waldron, “Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image“
2014
Josephine Carreno, “Fractions Aren’t So Scary! Using the Unit Fraction to Ease the Fear“
Margaret M. Deweese, “Whose Destiny? Viewing America’s Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes“
Jo Anne (Stafford) Flory, “Rhetoric in My World: Engaging Students in Rhetorical Analysis Through Political Speechwriting“
Arcadia A. Teel, “Microbes as a Driving Force of Change“
Krista Baxter Waldron, “The Settled and the Unsettled, Then and Now: Rites of Passage in Urban Life and Narrative“
2013
Audra K. Bull, “A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography“
Leonarda DeAndrade, “Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World“
Jo Anne (Stafford) Flory, “Pathways to Making Meaning: Inroads to Interpretation of The Nature of Evil in Heart of Darkness“
Arcadia A. Teel, “From Plants to Horsepower – an Introduction into the World of Oil“
Krista Baxter Waldron, “The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa’s Invisible City“
2012
Audra K. Bull, “I think, therefore I do? Conscious and unconscious factors influencing our choice for President of the United States“
Leonard DeAndrade, “The First Twenty Years: Whiskey, Aliens… and Shopping!
Emily B. Dentel, “Using Biology to Teach Children to Think Like a Scientist“
Kristy Michelle Hutton, “Energy, Environment and Health Electromagnetic Fields: Are They Buzzing You?
Krista Baxter Waldron, “Reading, Writing, and Recidivism: Healing to Learn through Memoir and Vignette for Adjudicated and/or Traumatized Youth“
2011
Audra K. Bull, “Are You Talkin’ to Me? A Bibliotherapeutic Realization of Intelligence and Self-efficacy in Traumatized Adolescents“
Emily B. Dentel, “Using Place Value to Teach Addition and Subtraction, Let’s Count the Ways“
Shanedra D. Nowell, “The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text“
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