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If you were to host a potluck or dinner to discuss a challenge facing your community or country, what food would you cook? Whom would you invite? On what issue would you

Read winning essays from our fall 2018 “Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Our Revolutions,” student writing contest.

Want to inspire your students to write? Here’s an opportunity for them to write about their position on the U.S. border as a barrier to immigration, and what can happen when someone

Uneasy about discussing the housing crisis —and its related issues like gentrification, environmental racism, and homelessness—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.

Uneasy about discussing the U.S.Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh—and its related issues like judicial temperament, sexual assault, Roe v. Wade, privilege—with your students? Here are some resources to start the

Uneasy about discussing mental health—and its related issues like self-care, anxiety, depression, and suicide—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.

Want to inspire your students to write? Here’s an opportunity to write for an audience beyond the classroom about what food they would cook if they were to host a potluck or

Think about what matters most to you about our country’s future. Write a letter to someone important to you, describing that future you imagine and hope for.

The YES! National Student Writing Competition is a quarterly writing opportunity to respond to a thought-provoking YES! article and writing prompt. Students not only write about something meaningful for a real audience—they