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Help your students connect with real-world issues and reflect on their values.

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Featured Teaching Resources

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.

Student Writing Lessons

“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 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.

Writing Contest

“Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Our Revolution” Student Writing Lesson

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

Writing Contest

Six Brilliant Student Essays on the Power of Food to Spark Social Change

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

Writing Contest

Winter 2019 National Student Writing Competition: Border (In)Security

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

Tough Topics Discussion Guides

Let’s Talk About Gentrification

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.