The New Teachers' Roundtable

10/16/2019

Silence speaks volumes. Our students are listening.

10/06/2019

CHICAGO – The set strike date is still 12 days away, but CTU members geared up Saturday to make sure their message is heard loud and clear. Chicago teachers hosted an “art build” to prepare picket signs, posters and parachutes ahead of Oct. 17. A CPS art teacher says the images they created Sa...

09/24/2019

Privilege and power play out in the world all around us every day. And kids notice. First-grade teacher Bret Turner has decided not to avoid the difficult conversations and questions his students bring to class. Instead, he's weaving discussions of things like racism and gender inequality into every...

08/08/2019

How are you talking about this in your classroom? Please take a look at these resources.

Yesterday, students were pulled from their first day of classes to say goodbye to undocumented parents and guardians arrested by ICE. Our thoughts are with educators and families across Mississippi and with those dealing with this trauma in the aftermath of anti-immigrant violence in El Paso. Yester...

07/22/2019

Educators! Check out this paid year long development opportunity for UTNO (United Teachers of New Orleans) teachers (and if you're not already a union member, we can help you with that 😉) Applications due Aug 16!

Have you ever seen a news report or talk show discuss issues around teaching and learning and thought to yourself or said to your colleagues, “Why don’t they just ask a real teacher about (you fill in the blank)?” The AFT Teacher Leaders Program is a union-sponsored program designed to help pr...

03/22/2019

We read the book Crescent City Schools: Public Education in New Orleans 1841-1991 in our first New Orleans Education Study Group and continue to draw on it for the ongoing work we do in education today. Looking forward to getting some teacher resources around it at this event!

A Reception and Book Giveaway on the occasion of the birthday of the New Orleans public school system, March 26, 1841