Most Recent YES! For Teachers Articles

De-Stress Your Classroom
Edutopia bundle of resources on meditation programs that can be used in school. Steps and benefits to bringing meditation to the classroom.

My Greatest Teaching Moment
High school history teacher Jesse Hagopian celebrates the moment when his students started making their own history.

The Corporation
Watch a new video about an eighth grade class using The Corporation film as a discussion starter. Share with your students using free curriculum from The Ontario Institute of Studies in Education.

Visual Learning: Who Is That Masked Man?
This Visual Literacy lesson will get your students thinking about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and what’s behind a mask.

Writing Contest
Fall 2011: “Bridging Differences” Middle School Winner Haley Coe
Haley Coe is a homeschool student with Oak Meadow School. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “Why My Dad’s Going Green” by Kate Sheppard. Read Haley’s essay about friendship

Writing Contest
Fall 2011: “Bridging Differences” Powerful Voice Winner Lourdes Escobar
Lourdes Escobar is a sixth grade student at John Muir Middle School, a Los Angeles Unified school operated in conjunction with the nonprofit LA’s Promise. She read and responded to the YES!

The Legacy Project
Cornell Professor Karl Pillemer, founder of The Legacy Project: Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans, collected over 1,500 interviews of elders on a variety of subjects. In text and video, the

YES! Recommends: ServiceSpace
ServiceSpace is a movement for generosity on social and personal levels. The site features projects that inspire generous behavior and chronicle the acts of kindness of ServiceSpace volunteers.

Visual Learning: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto
This Visual Learning Lesson will get your students thinking about what’s in the food they eat.