Most Recent YES! For Teachers Articles
Infographic: Does Congress Look Like America?
There are 469 seats in the U.S. Congress up for election this November 8th. This infographic explores how the demographics of Congress compare to America at large.
This Artist and Composer Bring the Power of Story to Your Classroom. They Want You and Your Students to Truly Know “The Other Side” of Each Other.
Since 2011, the Academy for the Love of Learning has used story and art to help strengthen relationships and understanding in Santa Fe classrooms. Now, it’s ready to share its curriculum with
Visual Learning: Time Flies
This visual learning lesson will get your students thinking about empathy for living things and how humans perceive time.
“What We Fear” Student Writing Lesson
What is one thing you fear about your future? How can you lessen that fear?
“Every Girl’s Right” Student Writing Lesson
Describe how you would feel if you were forcibly banned from going to school tomorrow—and indefinitely. What would you do?
Writing Contest
Spring 2016 National Student Writing Competition: What We Fear
Want a motivator to take your students’ writing to a higher level? Here’s an opportunity to write for a real audience, and the chance to get published by an award-winning magazine.
Writing Contest
Spring 2016: “What We Fear” High School Winner Clair Williamson
Read Clair’s essay, “A Different Kind of Relapse” about how her struggle with depression has motivated her to accept the love and kindness of those around her.
Writing Contest
Spring 2016: “What We Fear” Middle School Winner Deedee Jansen
Read Deedee’s essay, “How Do You Spell: Afriad, Dislexsa, Faer,” about how people’s biases toward dyslexia can lock her in a cage, but having dyslexia can also be a blessing for seeing
Writing Contest
Spring 2016: “What We Fear” University Winner Dion Medina
Read Dion’s essay, “Chronic Pain,” about sacrificing an active lifestyle—and inheriting an unthinkable future—to manage avascular necrosis, a disease that causes bone to slowly die.
