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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 School Shootings
Uneasy about discussing school shootings—and its related issues like gun laws, student activism, and masculinity—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About DACA
Uneasy about discussing DACA—and its related issues like immigration, racism, and sanctuary—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
“Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Student Writing Lesson
Students will read and respond to Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s article, “What Japanese Internment Taught Us About Standing Up for Our Neighbors.” In this article, Tracy reflects on the meaning of the Japanese
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Natural Disasters—Who’s to Blame?
Uneasy about discussing natural disasters—and who’s to blame for their death and destruction—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
Writing Contest
Fall 2017 National Student Writing Competition: Standing Up for Our Neighbors
Want to inspire your students to write? Here’s an opportunity to write about something meaningful and for an audience beyond the classroom.
Writing Contest
Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Middle School Winner Ruby Rose Coney Wynne-Jones
Read Ruby’s essay, “It Would Mean the World to Me,” about not labeling students with dyslexia as stupid and instead getting them the help they need.
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