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Teaching Respect & Empathy, Teaching Social Justice
Media Resources to Empower Young People from What Kids Can Do
What Kids Can Do uses digital, print, and broadcast media to showcase the power youth can achieve when they are taken seriously. Check out writing curricula, stories, and other powerful learning resources

Food Literacy Quiz
From Nourish and Food Day, a quiz that tests how food literate you are. The 15 questions reveal facts about food and its relationship to the bigger food system, and the community-at-large.

My Love Affair with Breadfruit (And Other Stories from the Waiʻanae Youth Garden)
Tasia Yamamura is a FoodCorps service member on the beautiful Waiʻanae coast of Oahu, Hawai’i. To combat diabetes and heart disease, she is teaching young people how to grow and prepare real,

Why Women’s Stories Matter
March is Women’s History Month. In this New York Times Learning Network lesson plan, students examine their school curriculum and personal experiences on reading stories about and by women. Through this analysis,

Poster: What Healthy Diets Have in Common
This colorful poster compares eight healthy diets—vegan, Mediterranean, ancestral, glycemic index, anti-inflammatory, raw, traditional Asian, and Natl. Institutes of Health—and shares what they have in common (besides kale) and how they are

Visual Learning: A Slow, Press-ious Process
This Visual Learning Lesson will get your students thinking about local, sustainable farming and the importance of traditional knowledge and way of life.

Writing Contest
Fall 2013: “Simple Living” Middle School Winner Annika Holliday
Annika Holliday is a student of Carter Latendresse at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article “Growing Up in a Kenyan Slum Taught Me

Writing Contest
Fall 2013: “Simple Living” High School Winner Spencer Reed
Spencer Read is a student of Mark Cline-Lucey at Vermont Commons School in Middlebury, Vermont. He read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “Growing Up in a Kenyan Slum Taught Me

Writing Contest
Fall 2013: “Simple Living” College Winner Sana Naz
Sana Naz is a student of Professor Jamie Olson at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Washington. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “Growing Up in a Kenyan Slum Taught