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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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The Story of Stuff Project Resources
The Story of Stuff Project is more than its signature short film. It’s a movement to get us to throw away all the stuff in our lives and work together to build
Institute for Humane Education Resources
The Institute for Humane Education (IHE) believes that in order to create a just, sustainable, and humane world, humane education needs to be at the core of everyone’s education. IHE curricula, lesson
Writing Contest
Winter 2013: “Seeing the Unseen” Middle School Winner Sumaiyah Mustaphalli
Sumaiyah Mustaphalli is a sixth-grade student of Blakeney Miller at Orlando Science Middle School in Orlando, Florida. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article “What Can Change When We Learn
“10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock” Poster
Toolbox for Education and Social Change has a great classroom tool on cooperatives. You can buy its “10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock” poster at pay-what-you-want prices. Available in Spanish, too.
Go Local! Learning In and Outside the Classroom
Sarah Anderson writes of her unexpected journey of becoming a teacher and how place-based education has helped her empower her students and strengthen democracy in her community.
Visual Learning: Gauze for Concern
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the foreclosure crisis in this country and what it might feel like to lose your home.
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