Powerful Voice Winner Lourdes Escobar Essay on "Why My Dad's Going Green" Lourdes Escobar Jan 26, 2012
The Legacy Project Cornell Professor Karl Pillemer, founder of The Legacy Project: Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans, collected over 1,500 interviews of elders on a variety of subjects. In text and video, the oldest living generations of Americans share their experiences. Jing Fong Feb 03, 2012
Academy of Achievement With biographies, personal interviews, and powerful images, the Academy of Achievement provides the opportunity for students to find a modern hero that resonates with their life. A content-rich Achiever Gallery of photos and a well-organized curriculum are terrific resources for hero projects or studies. Jing Fong Feb 02, 2012
Visual Learning: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto Visual Learning activity using an image of industrial tomato field in the central valley of California. Mirabai Troll Feb 07, 2012
YES! Recommends: ServiceSpace ServiceSpace is a movement for generosity on social and personal levels. The site features projects that inspire generous behavior and chronicle the acts of kindness of ServiceSpace volunteers. Jing Fong Feb 07, 2012
Words That Inspire: 3/4-Baked Jason McLennan suggests that we stop "chasing perfection." Jing Fong Feb 07, 2012
Visual Learning: To Dye For This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about where their clothes come from and how colorful fabric is made. Idil Levitas Dec 14, 2011
Maps That Stretch the Mind Like history, maps tell a story from the writer or creator's perspective. ODT Maps believes that there are many ways to see the world—including upside down. Explore the organization's many maps (with thoughtful explanations), videos, free downloads, quizzes, and more. Jing Fong Dec 14, 2011
When You Tell Them My Story, Please Mention That I Like Flaming Hot Cheetos Rich, stuck-up hippies. Racist gun-loving trailer trash. Two teachers try to bridge the divide between their rural and urban middle schoolers by having them write each other’s narratives in poetry form. This is Charles’ story. Charles Sanderson Dec 21, 2011
Words That Inspire: Because Instead of a letter, Terry Tempest Williams wrote a poem to nominate Lily Yeh as a YES! Breakthrough 15 Hero. The poem shared the many reasons why Lily Yeh is worthy of consideration. Who are the people students might be inspired to honor with a poem? Jing Fong Dec 14, 2011
YES! Recommends: Americans Who Tell The Truth Americans Who Tell the Truth spotlights 170 portraits of truth tellers—people who fought for all people's rights with courage and determination—to teach students of all ages not only about their heritage, but also to stand up for what they believe in. Jing Fong Dec 14, 2011
Civil Rights Curriculum In 1942, Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for refusing to go with other Japanese Americans to incarceration camps mandated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order No. 9066. The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education shares lesson plans, videos, and other classroom resources to teach students the importance of speaking up for civil rights for all. Jing Fong Dec 14, 2011
Words That Inspire: We are the 1% Some members of the 1% have shared messages of solidarity with the 99%. What goes into a sign that makes a lasting impression? Explore an activity to help your students understand—and create their own—powerful signs. Jing Fong Nov 21, 2011
YES! Recommends: Creative Change Educational Solutions Creative Change's comprehensive approach to curriculum transformation places food systems, renewable energy, urban revitalization, and other sustainability issues at the center of education innovation and reform. Jing Fong Nov 21, 2011
