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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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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
Spring 2018: “Letters of Hope” High School Winner Charlotte Wagner
Read Charlotte’s letter to Mary Magdalene about how she’s working to make sure the stories and struggles of women like her will be truthfully told and recognized.
Writing Contest
Spring 2018: “Letters of Hope” University Winner Carly Nelson
Read Carly’s letter to her friend Peach about the paradox of support systems and finding hope from those who share struggles of being disabled and fighting bureaucracy.
Writing Contest
Spring 2018: “Letters of Hope” Powerful Voice Winner Malena Vargas Sáez
Read Malena’s essay, “The Righteous Path of María the Sage,” a letter to her grandmother that seeks to harness her strength and resilience in order to overcome today’s corrupt and turbulent times.
Writing Contest
Spring 2018: “Letters of Hope” Literary Gems
We received many outstanding essays for the Spring 2018 Writing Competition. Though not every participant can win the contest, we’d like to share some excerpts that caught our eye.
Writing Contest
Carolina De Robertis Response to “Letters of Hope” Essay Winners
Carolina De Robertis responds to the winners of our Spring 2018 Student Writing Competition.
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About Student Writing Lessons from YES! Magazine
Use the YES! article, prompt, and sample essays in each writing lesson to bring the real world to your classroom—and to take your students’ writing to a new level.
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