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Sustainability
Teach your students about the environment, from stewardship to climate justice.
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Social Justice
Teach your students about equity, inclusion, and building a world that works for all.
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Respect & Empathy
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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Discussion Guides
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.
The Latest
Writing Contest
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s Response to “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Essay Winners
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, editorial and creative director at YES! Magazine, responds to the winners of our Fall 2017 National Student Writing Competition.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About #MeToo
Uneasy about discussing the #MeToo movement—and its related issues like sexual harassment, gender stereotypes, and abuse of power—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Charlottesville
Uneasy about discussing the Charlottesville protest—and its related issues like race, hate, and white supremacy—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.
“Gender Pronouns” Student Writing Lesson
Is there anyone in your life—you included—who is not comfortable being referred to as “he” or “she”? Write a letter to Cole, founder of the Brown Boi Project, on how you feel
Writing Contest
Spring 2017: “Gender Pronouns” Middle School Winner Alex Gerber
Read Alex’s essay, “A New Design for Language,” about the social and grammatical limits of gender-neutral pronouns—and how to get beyond them. Alex responded to the YES! article, “‘They’ and the Emotional
Writing Contest
Spring 2017 National Student Writing Competition: Gender Pronouns
Want a motivator to take your students’ writing to a higher level? Here’s an opportunity to write about something meaningful and for a bigger audience beyond the classroom.
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