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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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Visual Learning: “Out of many, one”
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the growing number of organizations dedicated to making this world a better place, and how art has a magical, powerful way of
Writing Contest
Spring 2011: “Your Unique Gifts” Middle School Winner Alex Gilliland
Alex Gilliland, a student in Dara Lukonen’s class at Aka’ula School in Molokai, Hawaii, read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “Blessings Revealed” by Puanani Burgess. She is our middle school
Words That Inspire: Life After Worry
The state of the world gives us plenty to worry about. What would happen if we made a decision to no longer worry? Read Akaya Windwood’s wise commentary on replacing worry with
Visual Learning: Out of the Blue
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about where their water comes from, and the effectiveness (or not) of public demonstrations.
YES! Poster: Jane Goodall’s 10 Best Things We Can Do For Animals
YES! asked Jane Goodall to tell us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.
Visual Learning: Paper Cranes for Peace
With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it’s all about peace.
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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
