Educator · Curriculum designer · Researcher

Genevieve Erker Caffrey, Ed.D.

I design elementary social studies curriculum and support the teachers who bring it to life. This site is a portfolio and archive of my classroom teaching, teacher education, research, and curriculum work.

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Current work

OPALIS Curriculum House

My current curriculum work, including the P.O.W.E.R. Framework, lives at OPALIS Curriculum House, where I design elementary social studies curriculum and support the educators who teach it.

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A portfolio and archive

Classroom projects, publications, curriculum frameworks, and a full record of my professional work.

Teaching Portfolio

Classroom projects, routines, and resources from grades 2 through 6 and university teaching.

Research & Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, my dissertation, and presentations.

Curriculum & Projects

Frameworks, professional learning, and leadership in the field.

Curriculum Vitae

Education, experience, honors, service, and presentations.

From the classroom

Selected work

First page of the article “Students Taking Social Action: Critical Literacy Practices Through School-As-Museum Learning” by Genevieve Caffrey and Rebecca Rogers

Critical Literacy & Social Action

Social Justice Museum Exhibit

Sixth graders designed, curated, and publicly displayed a museum exhibit on issues of injustice, casting themselves as Social Justice Superheroes taking on the “supervillains” of bullying, discrimination, factory farms, health problems, and poverty.

Grade 6 · Communication Arts · Maplewood Richmond Heights, St. Louis

Title slide showing the letters L-E-T-S A-C-T with the steps Love and Listen, Educate, Talk, Search, Analyze, Conclude, and Take Action, subtitled A Framework for Teaching Contemporary Political Issues by Genevieve Caffrey

Teaching Controversial Issues

The L.E.T.S. A.C.T. Framework

A step-by-step pathway for exploring contemporary political issues and racialized current events with young learners: Love and Listen, Educate, Talk, Search, Analyze, Conclude, Take Action.

Framework for teachers · Elementary classrooms and workshops · 2018–2021

Genevieve Caffrey reading the picture book Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester aloud in her classroom

Children’s Literature

Multicultural Children’s Literature

A leveled list of picture books and novels for exploring social class, race, gender, ability, family, immigration, peace, bullying, activism, the environment, and multiple perspectives.

Classroom library · Picture books and novels

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12 years

teaching grades 2–6 in Guadalajara, St. Louis, and Chicago

Ed.D.

Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Missouri

CUFA/NCSS

Graduate Forum Chair, 2019–2020