Teaching Happiness

Discover the good life through resilience, creativity, and community.

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).

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.

Military Recruitment of Youth - stories, links & resources

by Brandi Bratrude

posted Dec 08, 2006

Are you being recruited? Are recruiters giving you all the information you need to make an informed decision about joining the military? Do you have other options? These questions should be filtering through your mind while trying to understand what it means to be a young American.

Questions for Students: Going Forward Full Circle

by YES! for Youth Education Program

posted Aug 23, 2004

Questions for Students: When Youth Lead

by YES! for Youth Education Program

posted Aug 23, 2004

Questions for students: Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope

by YES! for Youth Education Program

posted Aug 23, 2004