Full Description
This book explores how citizen teachers can expand our capacities to generate more equitable and just spaces with families by working as community organizers. Paying particular attention to community organizing work in one elementary school, the book weaves stories and examples with theoretical understandings to support emerging citizen teachers in creating more democratic spaces. Each chapter provides key community organizing concepts and skills and offers lessons learned to identify what worked and what did not. By building solidarity with families, citizen teachers can effectively activate more powerful practices grounded in the lives of students, their families, and their communities while articulating a broader response to the conditions impacting educators.
Contents
Chapter 1. Citizen Teachers: Why Teachers Should Organize.- Chapter 2. Place Making and Border Crossings: Analyzing Space Using Critical Geographies of Education.- Chapter 3. The Power of Teacher Organizing.- Chapter 4. The Power of Parent Engagement.- Chapter 5. The Power of Student Organizing.- Chapter 6. Creating Free Spaces in Teacher Education.
