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Sustainability
Teach your students about the environment, from stewardship to climate justice.
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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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Writing Contest
Cole’s Response to “Gender Pronouns” Essay Winners
Cole, founder of the Brown Boi Project, responds to the winners of our Spring 2017 National Student Writing Competition.
Visual Learning: Dire Straits
This visual learning lesson will get your students thinking about displaced migrants and the refugee crisis.
These Educators Bring Story, Truth, and Humanity to the Climate Crisis. They Want Your Students to Imagine How They Can Fight for Climate Justice.
Students get straight-up, comprehensive education on climate change and how to be climate change-makers
Syrian Journey: Choose Your Own Escape Route
BBC’s virtual journey follows refugees’ footsteps from Syria to Europe.
“Your Sacred Place” Student Writing Lesson
Describe how you would feel if a place that defines you was threatened to be destroyed or taken away. What would you do? Would you fight to save it?
Writing Contest
Winter 2017 National Student Writing Competition: Your Sacred Place
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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FALL 2024
The “Truth” Issue
Truth and Reckoning
Students Say: Choose Us Over Guns
Radical Readers
Serving Justice
Survivors at the Center
