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Winter 2013: “Seeing the Unseen” College Winner Adam Dales

Adam Dales is a United States Army Veteran and student at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He read and responded to YES! Magazine article "What Can Change When We Learn to See Each Other," by Akaya Windwood. Read Adam's essay about how he was humbled by the kindness of someone he would normally ignore in a depressing area of town.
May 18, 2013
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Winter 2013: “Seeing the Unseen” Powerful Voice Winner Reyna Flores

Reyna Flores is a student of Stephanie Agnew at West Valley City School in Spokane, Washington. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article "What Can Change When We Learn to See Each Other," by Akaya Windwood. Read Reyna's poem about a misunderstood young girl and a lonely old woman who find each other.
May 18, 2013
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Free to Be Me

Gia Rae Winsryg-Ulmer knew she found her place to teach when she walked through the doors of Brooklyn Free School three years ago. See how Gia and BFS honor children's rights to be themselves and become the happy, healthy, and independent thinking people they are meant to be.
Apr 16, 2013
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Equal Exchange Fair Trade Learning Tools

Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative,has been at the forefront of fair trade, supporting small-scale farmers for over 25 years. Part of its mission is to educate and engage the public in the fair trade movement. Its curriculum, working papers, and infographics are terrific learning tools on fair trade, sustainable agriculture, and cooperatives.
Apr 16, 2013
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Visual Learning: Out of Character

This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about the intersection of handwriting and digital typeface, and the fate of cursive writing around the world.
Apr 16, 2013

“10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock” Poster

Toolbox for Education and Social Change has a great classroom tool on cooperatives. You can buy its "10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock" poster at pay-what-you-want prices. Available in Spanish, too.
Apr 16, 2013
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How Does Nature Do That?

Former park ranger-turned-professor Margo Farnsworth believes that biomimicry is one of the most important new tools for sustainability. It gets her students outside and unleashes their scientific and entrepreneurial minds.
Feb 2, 2013

Visual Learning: In a Bind

This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live a nomadic lifestyle, and to be forced to live and work in an unfamiliar place.
Feb 2, 2013
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Visual Learning: High and Dry

This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live in a remote area and between two worlds—the past of their ancestors and the present of American mainstream culture.
Dec 22, 2012
Tammy Strobel

Fall 2012: “Your Dream House” Middle School Winner Rowan Treece

Rowan Treece is a student at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, "Living Large in a Tiny House" by Carol Estes. Read Rowan's essay about the sustainable dance community home she would build so she could live with her ballet sisters every day and save the planet.
Dec 20, 2012
Tammy Strobel

Fall 2012: “Your Dream House” College Winner Chris Harrell

Chris Harrell is a student at Appalachian State University. He read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, "Living Large in a Tiny House" by Carol Estes. Read Chris's essay about how growing up in Kenya influenced his conscious choice to live intentionally here in the States.
Dec 20, 2012
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Fall 2012: “Your Dream House” Powerful Voice Winner Paw Soe

Paw Soe is a student at New Tech Academy at Wayne High School. She read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, "Living Large in a Tiny House," by Carol Estes. Read Paw's essay about how her Burmese roots taught her that no matter the size of your home, an abundant garden is essential.
Dec 20, 2012
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Permaculture Helps Us Remember Who We Are

Lilian Hill has a vision that the next generation of Hopi people will be healthy and find solutions to the challenges they face. Through Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture, she reconnects Hopi people of all ages to traditional farming and ecological wisdom.
Dec 19, 2012
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YES! Recommends: Nourish

Nourish is an education initiative that celebrates food and community. Its food curriculum and lesson plans, short films and discussion guides, and powerful action ideas will help young people and their families, schools, and communities think about the food they eat and what they can do to make healthy choices for themselves and planet Earth.
Oct 16, 2012
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Visual Learning: Lost Your Marbles?

This Visual Learning lesson plan will get your students thinking about community, public art, and why they can or can't buy spray paint.
Oct 16, 2012
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Putting Teen Health First

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 Judy's story.
Oct 12, 2012
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Go Local! Learning In and Outside the Classroom

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.
Sep 18, 2012
Detroit Foreclosure Quilt

Visual Learning: Gauze for Concern

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.
Sep 18, 2012
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Spring 2012: “Eating Together” Powerful Voice Winner Hanna Walker

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. Read Hanna's essay about how the dinner table brings together more than just people.
Jun 13, 2012
Landmark Ropes Course

Changing the Course of Dyslexia

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 can learn.
May 3, 2012
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