Most Recent YES! For Teachers Articles

Writing Contest
Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” University Winner Amber Huff
Read Amber’s essay, “To Know Her is to Love Her,” about what she found beneath the hoodie and ink-stained knuckles of a new library visitor.

Writing Contest
Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Powerful Voice Winner Alexandria Lutinski
Read Alexandria’s essay, “An Unanswered Cry for Help,” about living her own life after her snow globe world shatters.

Writing Contest
Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Powerful Voice Winner Aly Terry
Read Aly’s essay, “Highs and Lows,” about how everyone can support people with bipolar disorder by helping them see not just the ups and downs, but all things beautiful in-between.

Writing Contest
Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Powerful Voice Winner Logan Bailey Crews
Read Logan’s essay, “Bringing a Voice Back to Life,” about being pushed to the edge of the skyscraper in his head in the recent past, but focusing now on shattering the stigma

Writing Contest
Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Literary Gems
We are consumed by our own grief of childhood left behind and a future shrouded in a mist of endless responsibilities.—Lily Lashmet, grade 8, Odyssey Multiage Program, Bainbridge Island, Wash. I didn’t

Writing Contest
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s Response to “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Essay Winners
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, editorial and creative director at YES! Magazine, responds to the winners of our Fall 2017 National Student Writing Competition.

Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About #MeToo
Uneasy about discussing the #MeToo movement—and its related issues like sexual harassment, gender stereotypes, and abuse of power—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.

Tough Topics Discussion Guides
Let’s Talk About Charlottesville
Uneasy about discussing the Charlottesville protest—and its related issues like race, hate, and white supremacy—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation.

“Gender Pronouns” Student Writing Lesson
Is there anyone in your life—you included—who is not comfortable being referred to as “he” or “she”? Write a letter to Cole, founder of the Brown Boi Project, on how you feel