A new union movement starts Saturday, 10/16: NYC teachers organizing reform caucus on Chicago model

[Hannah Bell]

Saturday, October 16
Rank and File Leadership Program
11am-1pm
Community Resource Exchange, 42 Broadway, 20th Floor

Facilitator: Dr. Lois Weiner, Professor of Education, New Jersey City University

Pushing back on testing, merit pay, charter schools, and de-professionalization of teaching: How can we use teacher unions?

We will share strategies with participants for leading reading groups with colleagues about these issues. Participants will be provided with reading materials to distribute and action steps for organizing teachers in their school building.

Think teachers and families are getting pushed aside in decisions about schools?

Do you want to do more than just attend meetings about education?

We are seeking leaders for two projects:

1) Rank and File Leaders will build a new movement within the UFT for educational and social justice.

2) Right to the City Schools Leaders will build a grassroots campaign that demands real power for teachers, students and parents in our school system.

Monthly sessions for each project will provide information and leadership education.
Each session is free for Teachers Unite members and $5-$10 (sliding scale) for non-members.
Space is limited! Register at http://www.teachersunite.net/register


Teachers Unite is a membership organization of public school educators building power so that our union (UFT) fights for educational and social justice for the low-income communities served by New York City schools. Members participate in our programs that develop leadership and organizing skills, while establishing collaborative relationships with community organizations fighting for meaningful social change. We believe that a strong organization of activist teachers, working in coalition with parents and students, will transform our city, and its schools, to best serve all New Yorkers.

http://www.teachersunite.net/


Tuesday, October 19
Right to the City Schools Leadership Program
5:00-7:00PM
Urban Justice Center, 123 William St.

Guest speaker: Leonie Haimson

How has mayoral control impacted your classroom? What does school governance model have to do with the overemphasis on testing and lack of attention to class size?

Participants in this session will help shape the survey that they will use in the research project that gives voice to teachers, parents and students and their experiences under mayoral control of schools. We will review the goals of this research project and the plan for the year in making it happen.

Learn more at: http://teachersunite.net/register

--212-675-4790
http://www.teachersunite.net

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1. K & R nt

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2. K&R.

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3. K&R!

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5. K and R.

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