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Become Informed
Further Reading to Make Change in Your Local Context
Online
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution​
An international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective
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Since 1999, FrameWorks has studied how people think and talk about numerous social issues – and how communications can spark change.
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Black Lives Matter Healing ActionToolkit
Everyday resources to get us closer to our collective vision of self-determination, healing, and a world where all Black people are liberated.
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By working together, as well as with others who advocate for the teaching profession, our audiences can learn about writing, the teaching of writing, and the power of engaging young writers in craft and story.
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Write Now Studio: National Writing Project
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing.
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Joyful Noise: A Blog from the Minor Collective
Cornelius & Kass Minor share reflections and resources to support teachers committed to “teaching fiercely.”
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Podcasts
Everyday Advocacy: Changing the Literacy Narrative
NWP Radio talks with Cathy Fleischer and Sarah Hochstetler about Everyday Advocacy, the kind of advocacy that teachers can do as part of their regular teaching lives. ​
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An episode of Teaching, Learning, Leading K-12 about everyday advocacy in action.
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Books
​Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative
Cathy Fleischer and Antero Garcia
Literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional.
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Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
Berkshire and Schneider outline the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes. In so doing, they lay out what is at stake for parents, teachers, and students and provide a road map for ensuring that public education survives this present assault.
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It’s a Good Day to Change the World
Lauren Schiller & Hadley Dynak
30 stories of feminist change to fire you up without burning you out
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Cornelius Minor
While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have.
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Reform and Literacy Education: History, Effects, and Advocacy
Sarah ​Hochstetler, ed.
A critical resource for literacy educators and graduate students, this volume investigates the development of literacy education and provides a much-needed overview of where, when, and how efforts to shape education influence literacy teaching, as well as what literacy educators can do for themselves, their students, and the profession.
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The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writers and Writing.
Linda Adler-Kassner
Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resurgent traditions of progressive organizers, Linda Adler-Kassner calls upon composition teachers and administrators to develop strategic programs of collective action that do justice to composition's best principles.
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David Cullen​
Deeply researched and beautifully told, Parkland is an in-depth examination of this pivotal moment in American culture—and an up-close portrait that reveals what these extraordinary young people are like. ​​​​​
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Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education
Nancy Schniedewing and Mara Sapon-Shevin
A collection of empowering stories bringing together the voices of teachers, parents, and educational activists fighting market-driven educational policies​​​​​​​
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Teachers Organizing for Change: Making Literacy Learning Everybody’s Business.
Based in the work of professional organizers, this book offers teachers and teacher educators a practical, hands-on guide to effecting positive change in their own learning communities