Dear Educators,
I continue to hear from you that you look to YES! for stories to inspire your students that a peaceful world is possible. Here are curriculum resources from YES!, from Voices in Wartime, and others that offer ways to get your students thinking and taking action on peace.

I think you'll love our next issue of YES! on Solutions to Climate Change. Be sure to encourage your teaching colleagues to sign up for a free YES! teacher subscription and please don't forget to renew your own subscription (put “TAL” in the code box).

Peace,


Kay Hubbard
Education Outreach Manager, YES! Magazine

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Students Unite for a Department of Peace
Southwestern University student Rob Atkinson describes his commitment to peace and involvement with the Student Peace Alliance. Share Rob’s empowering story about the national student campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace with your students.
  VIDEO  Watch Rob Atkinson talk about the campaign

MORE OF YOUR STORIES: students take the lead on climate change in the Cool School Campaign; Sixth Grade girls talk about Immigration and innovative teaching methods in action on Sustainability.
Please send us your stories of inspiring teaching to share with our growing network of YES! teachers.

Voices in Wartime is a feature-length documentary that sharply etches the experience of war through powerful images and the words of poets, soldiers, journalists, and others.

The Voices in Wartime Education Project offers four thematic curriculum modules that approach teaching about the experience of war using the film and additional resources. Below are poets, included or mentioned in the Voices in Wartime film, reflecting on their experience with war.

See the trailer, resources and in-depth curriculum tools.

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YES! on Peace An on-line chronology of articles from YES! about peacemaking, non-violent communication and youth peace makers.

YES! Making Peace: Healing a Violent World If you’ve ever wondered if peace is possible, this book of peacemaking stories is for you.

Read chosen quotes by Dwight Eisenhower and Muhammad Ali Americans Who Tell the Truth Two men from vastly different backgrounds offer inspiring quotes on peace. Here are two portraits by Rob Shetterly that will get your students talking about the impact of war and why wars are fought. We also have curriculum tools for using these portraits, quotes, and biographies.

The Page That Counts Ask your students what makes 13 to 24 year olds happy and then show them our surprising statistics to get them talking about happiness and what it means to them. Eight Steps to Teach Peace Here are some practical and creative ideas to pass on to your students about making peace at home, at school, in nature, in their community, and in the world. Protecting Our Commons Ask your students to consider what it is that we all want to value and protect. This interactive graphic will get them thinking about the commons, and their role in protecting it.

More in-depth curriculum resources on teaching peace and non-violence.

Peace Jam – Change Starts Here Curriculum
Here are innovative curriculum ideas that link learning about peace, justice, and positive change with the lives of Nobel Peace Laureates like Desmond Tutu. The Peace Jam Foundation offers standards-based curricular resources for use with students K-college.


Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance provides educators with free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond. Read their online magazine published twice yearly and subscribe to their e-newsletter.


Educators for NonViolence
Educators for NonViolence offers curriculum resources (K-16), bibliographies on nonviolent education, an annual conference and teacher trainings.



Darfur: Teaching About the Issues
Here are teacher and student guides about the conflict in Darfur with stories from young people about their daily lives, the fears they face, and their hopes for the future. These lessons are appropriate for students age 13 and older.

This poetic vision of peace comes from young Cameron Penny, who is featured in the Voices in Wartime film.

If you are lucky... Cameron Penny, 4th Grade, Michigan If you are lucky in this life A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies And when soldiers look into the window They don't see their enemies They see themselves as children And they stop fighting And go home and go to sleep. When they wake up, the land is well again. YES! Magazine #32—Winter 2005

Jan 31: Focus the Nation on Global Warming Solutions
Create a teach-in at your school along with thousands of educators across the country. Resources and teach-in model here.

Launch the Teach-In by joining an interactive webcast on the evening of January 30th, with Van Jones, Hunter Lovins, and Stanford climate scientist Stephen Schneider.

Maestros y profesores de español

Get your students thinking and talking about telenovelas as a way to promote peace. ¿Pueden las telenovelas salvar el mundo? is available in Spanish and English for your intermediate and advanced students.

Watch Robert Cray's poignant new music video “Twenty” featuring the Eyes Wide Open Boots exhibit.

Seven inspiring stories of people being the change, including villagers in war-torn Colombia saying “yes” to peace.

www.yesmagazine.org

People We Love
Meet César López, who spreads peace through music and makes guitars out of guns.