Creating Your Own Cooperative Preschool: Just the Basics
By Lucy Watkins
"Whether you are a parent working outside the home, in the home, or somewhere in between, finding the perfect preschool has probably been an issue for you. Many parents, especially those outside the mainstream, search in vain to find the right preschools for their children; where the teachers and administrators understand that gelatin isn't vegetarian, fruits and vegetables are ideal snacks, children learn through play, and self-esteem is top priority..."

When Bullies Strike: An Opportunity to Teach Your Child Strength & Compassion
By Dr. Kerrie Saunders
"There may be a time when your child encounters bullying behavior - when behavior goes beyond good-natured and occasional joking. The hurt can be in the form of verbal abuse (inflicted through words, such as name calling or taunting) or in the form of physical abuse (kicking, shoving, fighting, or taking property)..."

Project Healthy Beginnings
A Healthy Alternative to School Lunches
"Through the initial efforts of PTA moms calling their plan "Project Healthy Beginnings," a coalition of parents, health authorities, environmentalists, and animal advocates is growing throughout California in order to make their voices heard for the rights of all California kids: the right to a comprehensive and balanced health education experience that supports the American values of choice and inclusion for all children – in the classroom and the cafeteria..."

School Foods Tool Kit
A Free Kit to Improve Foods in School
The Kit includes: model policies,fact sheets, advice about how to influence school decision makers and build support for change, sample letters, flyers and other model materials. It also includes descriptions of numerous schools that have improved the nutritional quality of the foods and beverages available to students (many without losing money) and a list of pending state school foods legislation/policies.

C.H.O.I.C.E.
Consumers for Healthy Options in Children's Education
This organization "was launched in 1994 by a group of concerned parents to promote a choice of wholesome plant-based meals and nutrition education in our nation's schools..."

Child's Food for Life
From Waldorfhomeschoolers.com
A look at diet in relation to Waldorf Education.

It's Easy to Start an Animal Rights Club!
By Shakira Croce, age 14
"When I decided to found Gainesville High School's first ever animal rights club (located in the "poultry capital of the world"), I had no idea what persistence REALLY meant, but I found out and boy did it ever pay off!"

Dissection: Teaching Animal Cruelty
By Lauren Burtz, age 15
"I’ll never forget the day I walked into biology class and saw a stack of fetal pigs lying in a pile on the front table. I was not a vegetarian at the time, but the sight of all those innocent pigs lying before me brought up strong feelings of sadness..."

An Interview with Andrew Knight
By Shakira Croce, age 14
He encouraged the first Australian university to formally allow students to conscientiously object to animal experimentation. Since then, several other universities have followed suit, and Dr. Knight has led many successful campaigns to stop animal suffering through unnecessary dissection. Read his advice for making a change in your school!

You Can Vegetarianize Your Cafeteria!
By Shakira Croce, age 14
"My middle school cafeteria had no vegetarian options. I decided to do something about it..."

Cut Out Dissection
By Shakira Croce, age 14
"Choosing not to dissect is not opting out of learning. There are so many alternatives (models, diagrams, films, and computer programs) that teach you just as much as cutting up a dead animal..."

Animal Rights Club
By Karen Chiodo, age 14
"In high school, I decided to join the Animal Rights Club. That's when I realized there was no Animal Rights Club. So, I made the decision to start one of my own..."