Most Recent YES! For Teachers Articles
Writing Contest
Eight Brilliant Student Essays on What Matters Most in Life
Read winning essays from our spring 2019 student writing contest.
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
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Money
Uneasy about discussing money with your students? Start here.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Migrant Caravans
Uneasy about discussing the migrant caravan—and its related issues like immigration, the wall, family separation, and xenophobia—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
