With Teens: Sam's Journey was created in collaboration with veteran educator Paul Darvasi, drawing on evergreen social and emotional discovery topics that endure in literature and that his students have raised in class over the years - issues of self-knowledge and self-expression across different types of media, judgments we make about others, and how we respond to assumptions others make about us. The unit was piloted by Dr. Shawn Clybor's juniors and seniors at Dwight-Englewood School in New Jersey in 2020 and was iterated upon based on educator and student reactions and recommendations.