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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.
The Latest
Writing Contest
Spring 2016: “What We Fear” Powerful Voice Winner Nicole Reiber
Read Nicole’s essay, “The Monster Within” about relationships and career opportunities in her life that have been lost because of her self-sabotaging behaviors, and how self-respect has helped her fight this monster.
Writing Contest
Spring 2016: “What We Fear” Literary Gems
We received many outstanding essays for the Spring 2016 Writing Competition. Though not every participant can win the contest, we’d like to share some excerpts that caught our eye.
Writing Contest
Spring 2016: Julie M. Elman’s Response to “What We Fear” Essay Winners
Julie M. Elman responds to the winners of our Spring 2016 Student Writing Competition.
Visual Learning: Trouble in the Fields
This visual learning lesson will get your students thinking about the lives of migrant farm workers, and where their food comes from.
51 Nations and 44 Languages: A Shared Struggle Toward Integration and Acceptance
In 2010, former Los Angeles Superior Court law clerk Luis Escamilla traded the courtroom for the classroom, where he teaches his immigrant and refugee students English, history, and a worldly understanding of
Writing Contest
Winter 2016 National Student Writing Competition: Every Girl’s Right
Want a motivator to take your students’ writing to a higher level? Here’s an opportunity to write for a real audience, and the chance to get published by an award-winning magazine.
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FALL 2024
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Truth and Reckoning
Students Say: Choose Us Over Guns
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