H/T to AB who asked me about spaces and organizations where educators are working actively against many of the harmful initiatives, reforms, and agendas found in schools.
As Bree Picower says in her book, Practice what you Teach, "To fulfill your desire to be the best teacher possible, you must teach for justice in the classroom and organize for it in the streets." Picower, one of the founding members of the New York Collective of Radical Educators, also often says that if you are a fantastic teacher for social justice in the classroom, but not pushing for change outside the classroom, you are in danger of merely decorating the prison cell.
Get out, get connected. You may not do this today, this month, or even this academic year, but it is vital for you to connect to other liberatory teachers for many reasons: to sharpen your game, organize for change, and be part of envisioning possible futurities.
Here is an initial, incomplete list of justice oriented organizations who are about it:
Education for Liberation (I am a board member of this organization and would be happy to tell you more about it. We are 1/2 of the folks who produce that fantastic planner you have).
NYCore (mentioned above)
Teach4SJ
Rethinking Schools
paz,
lp.
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