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- Summer Reads :: Winning Student Essays
- May 2013 education newsletter of summer reads, a collection of YES! stories, plus winning essays of the Winter 2013 YES! National Student Writing Competition
- Why Cooperatives Rock :: TED Talk For the Bullied and Beautiful
- Learn about co-ops, their many fans, and the new economy they inspire. Bring learning materials on Equal Exchange and their cooperative principles to your classroom. Dig into your school's new garden with The Food Project's ideas for teen engagement. Watch and listen to one spoken-word artist's candid poem on bullying and survival.
- What Can Nature Teach Us? :: If Chalkboards Could Talk
- Learn about biomimicry—using nature's models to make sustainable products— and its potential in the classroom. Guide your school's spring permaculture project with 12 basic principles. Be inspired by one artist's larger-than-life chalkboard that brought her New Orleans community together
- What Would Nature Do? :: TED-Ed talented teacher videos
- Features stories about how solutions to our biggest challenges are evident in nature if we only choose to see them, with related teaching resources.
- 9 Steps to Better Health :: How To Help Your Introvert Students
- It's your body! This Education Connection Newsletter features resources to support student health and success including curriculum from Nourish, the inside scoop from a Teen Health Center, documentary viewing guides and lesson plans, and a shocking (and sweet!) infographic that shows just how much sugar Americans consume.
- Local Food? How About Local Learning?! :: Celebrate Black Poetry Day
- Home is not only where the heart is, it’s also where your students can get the most out of learning. This newsletter features a story on place-based learning, lessons from Dream of a Nation that will inspire your students to be active in their community, and a short film that captures the heartache of foreclosure. Also, poems galore to celebrate Black Poetry Day.
- 2012 Greatest Hits :: Most Popular YES! Education Resources
- YES! Education Connection newsletter favorites from the 2011-12 school year, including the Top Six most-read items.
- Changing the Course of Dyslexia :: Poetic Advice on Wearing a Hoodie
- Great teaching changes lives. Feel empowered by StoryCorps interviews that honor educators. Read the story of Landmark School and learn how to change the course for students with dyslexia. Also, start student discussion about Trayvon Martin with a powerful poem written by a mother for her son.
- My Greatest Teaching Moment :: How to De-Stress Your Classroom
- Looking to create a successful classroom? Wondering what corporations have to do with education? Discover a high school history teacher's greatest teaching moment, watch how a daughter learns the value of a good teacher, and explore a variety of tools for discussing corporate rule with students.
- Generosity-Driven Student Projects :: What's your 3/4-baked idea?
- How do you cultivate the hero within? Use ServiceSpace's fun interactive resources to inspire generosity in your students, and learn about Jason McLennan's 3/4 baked philosophy through Words that Inspire curriculum.
- REAL Heroes for Your Students :: Teaching Teens Empathy
- Heroes are celebrated in this newsletter that features Americans Who Tell the Truth, a collection of 170 portraits and quotes, plus curriculum, on people who have stood up for what they believe in. Resources on maps that stretch the mind and a story from a teacher who used poetry to help students transform ignorance into empathy.
- Understanding Students with Dyslexia :: Doodling Boosts Learning
- Does the curriculum you teach embody transformative teaching and learning? Creative Change Educational Solutions lesson plans and systems approach to sustainable education are highlighted in this newsletter. Recommended films and websites help you understand the school experiences of students with dyslexia. Also, the benefits of doodling—boosting creative thinking and learning—are revealed.
- Occupy Wall Street :: Staying Positive in Wisconsin
- Do you and your students look to the future with scrunched eyebrows or unbridled hope? The fall newsletter features the Legacy Project’s resources to help your students dream big. A Wisconsin teacher shares how she and her colleagues try to stay positive in the wake of Governor Walker’s budget hacking. Plus, resources on Occupy Wall Street.
- Tales of a Beginning Teacher :: Prison Food vs. School Lunches
- Spotlight is on resources from YES! Magazine’s “Beyond Prisons” issue and the fresh, forward-thinking nonprofit education group IDEA. Plus, your students can compare their cafeteria food to typical jail cuisine.
- 2011 Greatest Hits :: Most popular YES! education resources
- We pay close attention to what newsletter features you like (and don’t). In this special edition, you’ll find the most read items—our “greatest hits” from the past year. Rediscover popular lesson plans, posters, and other classroom resources
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