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Activists, Advocates, and Agitators

21st Century Justice-Oriented Teacher Activist Organizations

Edited by Brianne Kramer
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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