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Sustainability
Teach your students about the environment, from stewardship to climate justice.
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Teach your students about equity, inclusion, and building a world that works for all.
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Teach your students to treat everyone with compassion and dignity.
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Help your students connect with real-world issues and reflect on their values.
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Teach your students to interpret a single image with playfulness and imagination.
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Talk with your students about things that matter, even when they’re complicated.
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Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Anti-Blackness
Resources for talking with students about anti-Black racism and related issues like colorism, U.S. history of slavery, and police brutality.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Mass Incarceration
And related issues like race, poverty, and punishment.
“Why Bother to Vote?” Student Writing Lesson
Is not voting a responsible option in a presidential election?
The YES! National Student Writing Competition
Students read and respond to a YES! article. Check out the winning essays from recent contests.
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Writing Contest
Fall 2016: “Why Bother to Vote?” Literary Gems
We received many outstanding essays for the Fall 2016 Writing Competition. Though not every participant can win the contest, we’d like to share some excerpts that caught our eye.
Writing Contest
Yessenia Funes’ Response to “Why Bother to Vote?” Essay Winners
Yessenia Funes responds to the winners of our Fall 2016 National Student Writing Competition.
Infographic: Does Congress Look Like America?
There are 469 seats in the U.S. Congress up for election this November 8th. This infographic explores how the demographics of Congress compare to America at large.
Visual Learning: Time Flies
This visual learning lesson will get your students thinking about empathy for living things and how humans perceive time.
“What We Fear” Student Writing Lesson
What is one thing you fear about your future? How can you lessen that fear?
“Every Girl’s Right” Student Writing Lesson
Describe how you would feel if you were forcibly banned from going to school tomorrow—and indefinitely. What would you do?
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