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Activists, Advocates, and Agitators
21st Century Justice-Oriented Teacher Activist Organizations
Edited by Brianne Kramer
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August 2024
9781975505639
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2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention
In recent years, the field of education has been fraught with a variety of different challenges. A multi-year pandemic, book banning, and legislative efforts seeking to ban Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ positive curriculum have had negative effects on K-12 education, leaving many educators feeling the progress made in several states and communities before and during the 2018 teacher walkouts and strikes was now gone. Teacher morale is sitting at a historic low point, with teachers leaving the profession in droves. Education as an institution is at a crucial tipping point, and changes focused on equity and reducing the neoliberal hold on reform need to be implemented in order to keep schools as democratic spaces. The way this vision can be realized is through activism and existing social movement organizations that use both traditional and netroots practices. The purpose of Activists, Advocates, and Agitators is to provide readers with a history and analysis of 21st century teacher activism in K-12 schools to better understand the effectiveness of organizing and activism. Additionally, the text will introduce readers to present-day activist groups whose work is positively changing education and schools and the ways in which some teachers are working within their communities to assist in their specific needs.
Activists, Advocates, and Agitators is the perfect book to instruct preservice teachers about the conditions that they will face in their classrooms, arming them with valuable strategies to help them to achieve their academic goals.
Perfect for courses such as: Social Foundations of Education; Foundations of Education; Education Policy; Educational Leadership; Teacher Leadership; Sociology of Education; Politics of Education; and Democratic Education
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Why and How Teachers Organize
Chapter 1
The Need for Teacher Activism and Organizing: An Introduction
Brianne Kramer
Chapter 2
Why Do Teachers Engage in Justice-Oriented Activism?: Reflections from Philadelphia’s Teacher-Activists
Dana Morrison
Chapter 3
Transformative Teacher Activism: A Political and Educational Awakening
Jennifer Sink McCloud
Chapter 4
“We can join together to help fix it”: UCORE and the Movement for Social Justice Unionism
Lauren Ware Stark
Chapter 5
The Crossfires of Hate
Shiv R. Desai
Part 2: Teacher-Activist Organizations and Social Justice Unionism
Chapter 6
We Refuse to Be Blamed: The Badass Teachers Association
Melissa Tomlinson
Chapter 7
The Movement and the Mayor
Jesse Sharkey
Chapter 8
So We Stand: Minneapolis Federation of Teachers
Greta Callahan, Marcia Howard, & Brianne Kramer
Chapter 9
Black Lives Matter at School and the Ongoing Pursuit of Educational Justice for Black Lives
Denisha Jones
Chapter 10
National Educators United (NEU): Collective Action Outside of Formal Union Spaces
Janette Zahia Corcelius, Rebecca Garelli, Melissa Tomlinson, Stephanie Price, Katie Ehrlich, Ivonne Rovira, & Brianne Kramer
Chapter 11
NYCoRE’s Inquiry-to-Action Groups: Developing Political Education Toward Liberatory Futures in Education
Jennifer Queenan, Natalia Ortiz, & Pam Segura
Chapter 12
Privatization Doesn’t Stop at Borders: The Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education
Rosemary Lee & Brianne Kramer
Chapter 13
USOS: Our Part in the Struggle to Save the Public’s Schools
Becky L. Noël Smith
Part 3: Opportunities for Preparing Preservice and Current Teachers
Chapter 14
Aspiring Educators as Aspiring Organizers and Activists: A Blueprint for Action
Gerald Wood, Kimo Homer, Erin Hiebert, Jeff Lang, Michelle Novelli, & Christine Lemley
Chapter 15
Reframing Curricular Opportunities to Nurture and Sustain Critical Consciousness
Jessica Manzone & Julia Nyberg
About the Authors
Index
Brianne Kramer
Brianne Kramer, PhD, is an award-winning Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education and Human Development at Southern Utah University where she teaches Social Foundations of Education courses. Additionally, she coordinates the Educational Foundations and Policy major for the Master’s of Education and Master’s of Interdisciplinary Studies programs. Her research focuses on teacher workforce issues, diversity, equity, and inclusion, educational policy, critical university studies, and teacher activism. She co-edited the 2022 book Children and Trauma: Critical Perspectives for Meeting the Needs of Diverse Educational Communities, and the 2024 book Activists, Advocates, and Agitators: Justice-Oriented Organizing in the 21st Century. She also currently serves as a series co-editor for The Badass Teachers Association Education Series through Myers Education Press.
Activism; teacher activism; Advocacy; teachers' work; organizing; teacher unions; AFT; NEA; subversive teaching; power