Teachers Speak Up!
Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Difficult Times

Sonia Nieto (Edited by), Alicia López (Edited by), Sonia Nieto (Series edited by)

9780807769539

Hardback, published 26 April 2024

272 pages
23.5 x 16.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.479 kg

In the past several years, we have witnessed unprecedented political, racial, economic, and health-related ruptures in society. The resulting turmoil has had an inevitable and negative impact on students, teachers, the profession of education, and especially marginalized and vulnerable populations. Academics and policymakers have had their say on how to address today's volatile issues, but teachers and other practitioners closest to students have not had the same visibility or access. This volume is an attempt to remedy that absence resulting in a compelling picture of education today. Chapters highlight essays written by a diverse group of K–12 classroom teachers who share their vision for education and describe their empowering classroom practices. At times hopeful and full of joy, at other times angry and full of frustration, these essays speak to what classrooms and schools based on social justice might mean for our nation. Teachers Speak Up! presents a bold vision of what education could be if teachers were to have a more direct influence on the purpose and aims of learning and teaching.

• Contents (Tentative)
• Introduction
• 1.  Facing a New World in Teaching and Learning
  Sonia Nieto

Part I: Identity, Family, and Community