Happiness

What makes us happy?

Connect and Engage: Making History

posted Jan 16, 2009

To teach happiness, be happy. Teachers, in particular, need support to be passionate and content in a challenging profession. The Center for Courage and Renewal's "Courage to Teach" supports this belief with essays, articles, and a retreat program.

YES! Recommends: Project Happiness :: 7 Doors Project

posted Jan 16, 2009

Take your students on a journey of self-discovery that will ultimately lead them to understanding not only what is happiness for themselves, but also what is happiness for others. Each door represents a facet of your path to happiness, and hosts a multimedia array of interviews, photos, films, questionnaires, and activities.

Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight

posted Dec 29, 2008

Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).

Three Cups of Tea

posted Dec 17, 2008

In Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, take you on a journey that begins with a climber’s failed attempt to scale Pakistan’s K2 and follows with his repaying a poor Pakistani village that nursed him back to health by building them a school.

Happy Teachers :: Reader Comments

posted Dec 17, 2008

The Winter 2009 issue of YES! investigates how to be happy … sustainably. We asked you about happiness in the classroom and beyond. Here is what your colleagues say.

Finding Happiness Beyond the Classroom

by Chris Goodman

posted Dec 17, 2008

At 19, Chris Goodman has worked in the field of education for six years, beginning as a math tutor. Today, he helps inspire students in Baltimore to fight for their rights. Here, he encourages teachers to join their students in campaigning for quality education.

Connect and Engage: Happiness

posted Dec 17, 2008

These two top-notch resources offer opportunities for you and your students to truly understand the benefits of giving, and the strengths and virtues that make people and communities thrive.

Happiness in the Classroom and Beyond

posted Dec 17, 2008

Classroom resources from the Sustainable Happiness issue of YES! Magazine.

Connect and Engage: Addressing Fear

posted Oct 27, 2008

Here are lesson plans and how-to resources forcoming to terms with false assumptions about immigrants, the current economic crisis, and walls that separate important relationships. Simply put, it’s about addressing fear with clarity and calmness.

The Story of Stuff: The Bigger Picture

posted Feb 04, 2008

Take a look at our YES! articles to support teaching with The Story of Stuff. Use these stories to get your students thinking and talking about the golden arrow of consumption, our identity as consumers, the purpose of an economy, what makes us happy, globalization, and what a just and sustainable world could look like.

Connect and Engage :: Consumption

posted Jan 30, 2008

Resources to accompany the January/February 2008 Education Connection newsletter on The Story of Stuff and Consumption: Facing the Future, The Center for Ecoliteracy, UNESCO, and Redefining Progress.

Immigration Through the Lens of Sixth Grade Girls

posted Jul 26, 2007

Hear how one committed and innovative Seattle teacher personalized immigration through an exchange between Daisy’s rural, mostly migrant, Hispanic school and Seton’s urban, mostly white, middle class school.

Voyager Students Say Yes! to the Earth Charter

by Andy Davey

posted Jul 24, 2007

This past year, 1st – 6th grade students at Voyager Montessori school eagerly saved enough pennies and dimes to fund two free teacher subscriptions to YES! Magazine. Find out how YES! inspired them to bring to life values of social justice.

A Life Lived Whole

by Parker Palmer

posted Nov 08, 2004

What happens when people refuse to live a lie?

Questions for Students: Going Forward Full Circle

by YES! for Youth Education Program

posted Aug 23, 2004