Teacher Leadership and Healthy Boundaries
The profession of teaching has long normalized martyrdom, but teacher leadership might need to change to include healthy boundaries. This blog discusses the link between unpaid labor and White Supremacy culture, as well as a story of a trans student in Florida.
Ilana Horn
🔎 humans in math classes & math in humans • 📚 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS, MOTIVATED, TEACHER LEARNING • assoc. ed. @jlearnsciences • math ed prof • she/her
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In a profession that has long normalized martyrdom, teacher leadership might need to change to having healthy boundaries. #AERA2023 #AERA23 @KnowlesTeachers pic.twitter.com/LXXVSAmNGg
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teacher Ishrat Ahmed links this unpaid labor to White Supremacy culture pic.twitter.com/mIS33JMjuW
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a queer Florida science teacher sharing a story about a trans student. i feel protective of their identity given the Florida laws, so i am not sharing the slide, but this is an incredible act of bearing witness.
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"Florida is not a lost cause. It's home to students who don't get to choose where they live and still have needs."
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"I'm paying out of pocket for therapy to process the trauma I experience day to day, because my school insurance doesn't pay for it."
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now @LoraBartlett is talking about her study "Suddenly distant: Teachers' work conditions in the context of the COVID19 pandemic."
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Talks about the idea of an "event" versus a "crisis". Our social contexts, infrastructure, and response that distinguish these. -
To what extent did the pandemic create a crisis versus being an event for teachers?
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Teachers' response was strongly mediated by the context, including state union strength, state content control, and district/school policy -
▪️The most diminished commitment to teaching in the "medium union strength" schools.
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▪️A lot of teachers who left were in states with content control policies introduced (eg CRT ban)
▪️Teachers who were asked to teach in two modes during the pandemic were more likely to leave -
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thank you @ProfHsieh for inviting us to take a breath as we process all of this...
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this graph though... pic.twitter.com/zdHnHbH3i2
— Ilana Horn (@ilana_horn) April 16, 2023