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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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Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Transgender Rights
Unsure about how to talk with your students about transgender rights and related issues, such as gender identity, media representation, transphobia, and antitrans legislation? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
“Border (In)Security” Student Writing Lesson
Get your students writing about anti-immigrant policies and the dangers of unfair assumptions.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Dirt
Unsure about how to talk about dirt—and its related issues like climate change, food access, and environmental injustice—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
Writing Contest
Eight Brilliant Student Essays on Immigration and Unjust Assumptions
Read winning essays from our winter 2019 “Border (In)Security” student writing contest.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Reproductive Justice
Today, reproductive rights are under attack. The Trump administration and Republican lawmakers have proposed legislation to limit full access to family planning, women’s health and abortion services, birth control, and comprehensive sex
Writing Contest
Spring 2019 National Student Writing Competition: Three Things That Matter Most
The YES! National Student Writing Competition is an opportunity for middle school through university students to write something meaningful for an audience beyond the classroom and the chance to be published by
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Truth and Reckoning
Students Say: Choose Us Over Guns
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