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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
Winter 2016: “Every Girl’s Right” Middle School Winner Dakota Cline
Dakota Cline is a middle school student at Horizons K-8 in Boulder, CO. He read and responded to the online YES! Magazine article, “Standing With Malala: Meet the Teenagers Who Survived the
Writing Contest
Winter 2016: “Every Girl’s Right” High School Winner Hamna Khalid
Hamna Khalid is a junior at Haddonfield Memorial High School in Haddonfield, NJ. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “Standing With Malala: Meet the Teenagers Who Survived the Taliban
Writing Contest
Winter 2016: “Every Girl’s Right” University Winner Kelsi Belcher
Kelsi Belcher is a freshman at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article “Standing With Malala: Meet the Teenagers Who Survived the Taliban and
Writing Contest
Winter 2016: Malala Fund Team’s Response to “Every Girl’s Right” Essay Winners
The Malala Fund Team responds to the winners of the Winter 2016 “Every Girl’s Right” writing competition.
Writing Contest
Winter 2016: “Every Girl’s Right” Powerful Voice Winner Edward Ramirez
Edward Ramirez is a freshman at KIPP Houston High School in Houston, TX. He read and responded to the online YES! Magazine article, “Standing With Malala: Meet the Teenagers Who Survived the
Writing Contest
Winter 2016: “Every Girl’s Right” Literary Gems
We received many outstanding essays for the Winter 2016 Writing Competition. Though not every participant can win the contest, we’d like to share some excerpts that caught our eye.
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FALL 2024
The “Truth” Issue

Truth and Reckoning
Students Say: Choose Us Over Guns
Radical Readers
Serving Justice
Survivors at the Center