Teacher: What Save Our Schools march accomplished — and didn’t
Veteran teacher Anthony Cody was one of the main organizers of last week’s Save Our Schools March , the first time thousands of public school teachers gathered in Washington D.C. to publicly protest the Obama administration’s education policy. There were smaller protests in about a dozen other cities around the country at the same time.
I asked him how he thought it went, what it accomplished, whether the turnout disappointed him, and more. Cody taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and 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. He writes the Living in Dialogue blog for Education Week Teacher.
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