Most Recent YES! For Teachers Articles

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.

Read Alexandria’s essay, “An Unanswered Cry for Help,” about living her own life after her snow globe world shatters.

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.

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

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

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, editorial and creative director at YES! Magazine, responds to the winners of our Fall 2017 National Student Writing Competition.

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.

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.

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