This page contains links to all curriculum units written in national seminars by Yale National Fellows from the District of Columbia.

2025

Raven Dorman, The Touchstone Atlas: A portfolio to promote transfer

Sarah Lewand, Overcoming Challenges in Graphic Narratives

Damon Peterson, A Brief History of Vaccines and Respiratory Diseases

Perrine Punwani, My Voice: The Making of Me

Anna Raphael, Love Letters to Our Lives: Creative Craft for Young Writers

Courtney White, Analyzing Avian Adaptations through Art

Alison Wollack, Finding Your Voice: Reading, Writing, and Revising Personal Narratives

2024

Sandy Alvarez, Art in D.C.: Using Rock Creek Park as Our Playground

Sean Crumley, Powering Our Community: An Analysis of Washington D.C.’s Renewable Energy Plan

Ethelwolda L. Paat, The Harlem Renaissance in Sounds and Image

Damon Peterson, First Poets

2022

Sandy Alvarez, Let’s Go Bananas! U.S. Imperialism Through the Lens of a Fruit

Malcolm McConner, An Alien Earth, Far, Far Away!

Zachary J. Meyers, Energy Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones: The impacts of climate change

Perrine Punwani, Art as Advocacy: Explorations into Literary and Visual Art to Provoke Change

2021

Catherine Cunha, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens

Zachary J. Meyers, Analyzing Electromagnetic Wavelengths and Their Interactions

Leslie Solomon, Data and Graphical Analysis in Life Science

2020

Christiona Hawkins, Codes of Conduct: Racist Housing and Education Policies that Impact Urban Students

Zachary J. Meyers, How Should I Get to School? A Life Cycle Assessment of DC’s Public Transportation

2019

Tierra L. Ingram, When Your Plan to Multiply Polynomials is FOILED

Zachary J. Meyers, Analyzing Energy Efficiency Through Energy Transformations

Trace L. Ragland, Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change

2018

Kwame Adu-Wusu, Augmenting Bone Regeneration: Structure, Function, and Dysfunction of the Skeletal System

Kalah Bell, Decriminalizing Education

Anita Galloway, The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry

Tierra Lynn Ingram, Closing Deficits Exponentially: Addressing Base Ten & Small Numbers Using Exponents

Zachary Meyers, Exploring the Metric System and EM Spectrum Through Base Ten Numeration

2017

Kwame Adu-Wusu, Gene Therapy and Muscular Dystrophy: Structure, Function, and Dysfunction of the Muscular System

Donna Bonavia, Bringing Alive the Art of the Past: Modern Tattoos and Illuminated Manuscripts

Zachary Meyers, Exploring Kinematic Proportional Relationships

2016

Travis Bouldin, Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism

Zachary Meyers, Energetics of Biofuel – Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel

2015

Chenise Gregory, To Thine Own self Be True: the Uncovering the Hamlet in You