Want Successful Students? Meet the Parents
Girlie Forman shares her personal experience, her sense of humor, and food to connect with her high school students—and their families.
Health & Happiness
All in the Ohana
How Hawaiians embrace the land, its abundance, and their responsibility to each other.
Freer, Messier, Happier
These days, moms, dads, kids, grandmas—even neighbors—are sharing the work of family.
Returning Grandpa’s Love
A family economy that doesn't outsource care—at either end of life.
The Child We Never Had
Co-parenting lets friends and community share the load and rewards of raising children.
How To Have An Open Relationship
Three simple tips for making it work
51 Ways to Spark a Commons Revolution
What you can do, alone and with others, to share life.
“In the Face of This Truth”
It’s time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond.
In New Orleans, Kindness Trumped Chaos
Lessons of dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina.
Visual Learning: Happiness Is Where You Find It
With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about happiness.
Everyday Conversations to Heal Racism
5 steps to courageous conversations about race and culture.
Discovering the Beauty of Teenagers
We tend to be afraid of those who are different from us. For John Hasyn, it was teenagers. Despite his feelings of intimidation, the Canadian-based photographer chose to work full-on with Inuit youth in Nunavut. What he discovered changed his perspective forever.
Visual Learning: Walking Slowly
Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.
Visual Learning: Art Cars at Burning Man
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
Sherman Alexie, How Dare You Tell the Truth?
A young native writer’s ambush interview with Sherman Alexie throws her into a whirlpool of unanswerable questions about tribal loyalty, silence, and healing.
Anthropology 101: How to Change the World
Professor Tom Murphy wanted his students to reconnect with nature. Now, they work beside farmers, fishermen, wastewater technicians, environmental groups, and Native American leaders through an award-winning service learning program.
Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).
Grief’s Hidden Gift
What I learned about happiness during my mom's last days with cancer.
Just the Facts: Who’s Happier?
A better economy doesn't necessarily mean a happier country.
An Interview with Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke on wild rice, wind power, Thunder Beings, self-reliance, and our covenant with the Creator.
Heal the Warrior, Heal the Country
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
The Fierce Urgency of Now
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
Acupuncture for All
With increasing numbers of people unable to afford health care, community practitioners are making acupuncture accessible to everyone. Pamela O'Malley Change invites us to "Imagine acupuncture being the medicine everyone
uses and values."
Fighting the Cancer, Healing the Soul
The Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic provides all-around care including alternative treatments for low-income women diagnosed with cancer.
Where FEMA feared to Tread
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
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