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I will continue to blog about resources for teachers, and strategies I’m using in my classroom.
However, it also seems like just writing about those things here would indicate that I’m an ostrich sticking their head in the sand.
Our students, our families, our friends, our neighbors and our communities are under attack by the Trump administration’s policies, and I believe we all are called to fight back against them.
I have written three Education Week columns offering recommendations about what educators can specifically do (see I’ve Written Three Ed Week Columns Sharing Over 20 Actions Teachers Can Take Now That Trump Is President – Here Are Links To All Of Them).
I’ve also begun a three-week Ed Week series highlighting ideas from others in the education field about steps researchers, teachers, students and administrators can take during these days of chaos.
I’m also pleased to say that a teacher told us that when he searched for books on Amazon promoting “anti-fascist pedagogy,” our book that’s coming out next week, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0, came up high on the results.
A committee of us at our school are developing ways to support our immigrant students.
And I’ve begun, in a very limited way, to help figure out how to introduce the amazing new film “American Agitators” to classrooms across the country.
All those efforts are good and important but, considering the terrible actions that the Trump administration is taking everyday, they are not enough.
My background may provide me with some helpful insight – I was a fairly successful community organizer for nineteen years with the Industrial Areas Foundation (founded by Saul Alinsky) prior to becoming a high school teacher twenty-three years ago (for what it’s worth, I was in the Catholic Worker Movement for seven years prior to my organizing career).
So, I’ll be writing a three-part series – today’s introductory post, then one on what national strategies I think the Democratic Party should be taking, followed by ideas about what we can all be doing on the local level.
I have low expectations for the impact these posts will have on anything but, at the very least, it offers me an opportunity to clarify my own thinking about a way forward….
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