{"id":13239,"date":"2015-04-01T03:38:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/my-teacher-leader-manifesto\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T03:38:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:38:33","slug":"my-teacher-leader-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/my-teacher-leader-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"My Teacher Leader Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Teacher Leader Manifesto<\/a><\/p>\n

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gjmueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My Teacher Leader Manifesto <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Teacher<\/b> is the pinnacle title of civilization because teaching <\/b>is
\n society\u2019s foundational activity. However, in American education today
\nthere is a nation-wide teacher shortage, a randomly selected teacher is
\nstatistically likely to be in his or her first year in the classroom,
\nand veteran teachers discourage their own children from entering the
\nprofession. The situation is unsustainable and education in America may
\nfall into an abyss.<\/i><\/p>\n

As an accomplished classroom teacher, I work at the membrane through
\nwhich policy becomes practice. That gives me day-to-day experience with
\nthe impact that policy has on teaching and learning. Therefore, I will
\nuse my unique, inherent credibility to speak on issues in education and
\nadvocate for changes in institutional policy and practice that I believe
\n will most benefit student well-being and the teaching profession.<\/i><\/p>\n

My governing principles will be to:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Limit my advocacy to issues on which I have direct experience and authority to speak<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. Inform myself further by reading broadly and deeply on the issues I care about<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. Encourage the growth and efficacy of the teacher leader movement
    \n by drawing attention to colleagues who exemplify great teaching and
    \nleading<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. Fairly represent my views by highlighting the nuances of
    \nmy thinking and the conditions under which my views are valid or
    \nmediated<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. Appeal to adversaries, many of whom are teachers, in a spirit of understanding, compromise, and reconciliation<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. Correctly characterize my adversaries and their views and support the fair airing of their opinions<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. Leverage my advocacy by working with networks whose mission is consistent with my values<\/i><\/li>\n
  8. Expect to be fairly compensated for my leadership but not use compensation as a condition for engagement<\/i><\/li>\n
  9. Be human first by caring for my family and health before all else<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My Teaching<\/b> is no longer limited to the work of preparing students for their futures. Instead, to be a Teacher, I <\/b>must
    \n also include working beyond the classroom to rebuild the profession and
    \n turn the country away from the abyss and toward a new day in education.<\/i><\/p>\n

    August \u201cSandy\u201d Merz III<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My Teacher Leader Manifesto gjmueller: My Teacher Leader Manifesto Teacher is the pinnacle title of civilization because teaching is society\u2019s foundational activity. However, in American education today there is a nation-wide teacher shortage, a randomly selected teacher is statistically likely to be in his or her first year in the classroom, and veteran teachers discourage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}