Teacher Voice

We define public pedagogy as opportunities to make the politics and critical pedagogies of teaching and learning available and visible to a larger audience. While teachers have many stakeholders they are held accountable to, we also envision teachers as public intellectuals and engaged citizens. It is the responsibility of teachers to engage in public discourse and respond to the inequities facing children, schools, and communities, particularly for communities of Color. In a digital age, the opportunities to engage with the public, locally and globally, are even broader and more accessible given how ideas circulate. We want this to be the beginning of a public reckoning—a way for educators to confront our own racial histories in order to do better, be better. We see the work of antiracist teaching as unfinished and on-going. We begin with the stories offered here to start and continue a dialogue and to lift up stories as a means towards social action. This platform was decided to elevate teacher voice and to begin the important work of racial reckoning, lead and mobilized by educators, put together from a place of vulnerability and love.