Our closing Finest of Trending in Ed for the summer season showcases a discussion with Dr. Leo Casey about his e-book, The Instructor Insurgency.
Mike welcomes Dr. Leo Casey, the Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute who has prepared a e book identified as The Instructor Insurgency: A Strategic and Arranging Standpoint. They start with Leo’s upbringing by two New York City academics, how he abandoned his dissertation to instruct in Crown Heights, and how he started working with the union when his faculty shut down.
Leo then commenced to head the Albert Shanker Institute, a strategic imagine tank inside of the American Federation of Academics which examines labor historical past, particularly for academics. Leo explains the origins of the 2018 and 2019 trainer strikes: the Janus scenario, post-2008 austerity, deprofessionalization, and movements like the Women’s March on Washington. Academics saw each their compensation as effectively as their place in the classroom going through speedy decrease.
The very first teacher’s strikes were being held in West Virginia, which had a heritage of the labor movement–both inside of instruction and further than. From in this article the strikes unfold, and ultimately the movement was thriving in preserving academics in the course of COVID-19 instances (in this context, MIke briefly mentions Leo’s report on Black Lives Matter and the NBA.)
Leo notes his worry about each the early retirement of teachers and the paucity in the pipeline for new academics. Leo also expresses optimism for the Biden-Harris administration, notably President Biden’s help of unions. Leo finishes up by talking about the discourses around how teachers see by themselves, and the need to have for true civics training.
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