How a teachers' union actually helped kids (not just adults)
This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and who now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers. He is a National Board-certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. This post appeared on his Teachers Magazine blog, Living in Dialogue. Cody is a dues-paying member of the National Education Association and the California Teachers Association, a disclosure relevant to this post. By Anthony Cody If you listen to mainstream media, you will hear the message repeated daily that our schools are in crisis, and that teachers' unions exist to serve the interests of adults and are obstacles to meaningful school reforms. You probably have NOT heard about a remarkable success story in California. In 2006, the California Teachers Association, the legislative arm of the National Education Association, sponsored a law called the Quality Education
So you want to be a teacher?
Here’s a video -- with some of my favorite dialogue below -- guaranteed to make you laugh and cry. This is about an aspiring teacher talking to a veteran and was created by David Kazzie, whose mother and sister are both teachers. Earlier videos in the laugh/cry series are: on collaborative planning, on becoming a professor, and on going to law school (which was also created by Kazzie). Here’s some of my favorite dialogue from the teacher video:
