Social worker Judy Pruim takes you behind the scenes at Muskegon High’s Teen Health Center at —a place where students feel safe, and their success and well being are supported. This is

This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the foreclosure crisis in this country and what it might feel like to lose your home.

Sarah Anderson writes of her unexpected journey of becoming a teacher and how place-based education has helped her empower her students and strengthen democracy in her community.

Hanna Walker is an eighth grade student at Cowles Montessori in Des Moines, Iowa. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “You Are Who You Eat With” by Katherine Gustafson.

President and headmaster Bob Broudo of Landmark School passionately believes that we have a civic responsibility to help students with language-based learning disabilities discover who they are as learners and how they

In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, what advice should a mother give to her young son? Use Rasha Hamid’s words to start a discussion with your students about what this tragedy

StoryCorps records and archives interviews of everyday Americans to preserve history and personal stories. Its National Teachers Initiative was created to celebrate great teachers and to highlight their invaluable contributions and influence

This Visual Learning activity will get students thinking about how we use plastic, and the implications of living conveniently.

Lisa Schwartz is a high school student at Presentation Academy in Louisville, KY. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “What’s the Harm in Hunting” by Alyssa Johnson. Read Lisa’s