Day 2 of our membership drive







 

 

Our members say that Teachers Unite keeps them motivated to stay in the classroom.
 

 

 

It is vital that we support them to continue. 

 

Your donation or membership dues will:

 

* Ensure that 10 NYC schools hire Restorative Justice Coordinators through our Pilot School Campaign targeting the DOE

 

* Increase the number of TU workshops that train NYC educators to use and promote restorative practices

 

* Send our members to Washington DC to share their stories and support student testimony to get cops and guns out of U.S. schools

 

Together we can transform the popular idea of what it means to be a teacher. Please join us. 
 
Thank you for your support!
What's Your Story?
Sarah Camiscoli

I fell into teaching. 

 

I wanted a career where I could work with young people, build powerful relationships, and apply my beliefs in educational equity and social justice. I had a vision of creating environments where young people could feel powerful, intellectual, creative and like agents of transformation. 

 

Teachers Unite opened a space where I could grapple with this vision and the reality of working in NYC public schools.Teachers Unite allows me to discuss the trying realities of working as an interventionist in a New York City public school: the daily lack of institutional support, the overwhelming numbers of students and responsibilities, the depth of complexity around community support and student needs, the infrequent moments of feeling like my work is intellectual, serious, and irreplaceable, the discomfort of "reform," and the need to have an outlet to contextualize these struggles. 

 

Sarah, Amber, E.M., and Anne (TU members and co-workers) at ActionCamp, a training for activists nationwide to dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline

Teachers Unite helps me to make intentional, thoughtful and powerful moves for these realities to shift for me and for the communities I work in. The idea that being a teacher can be one of the many roles that I play in education keeps me from burning out. 

 

Teachers Unite helps me to think through how to critically, responsibly, and sustainably play these roles- a teacher, a facilitator, a theorist, and an agent of political change.

Sarah facilitates small group discussion at TU's Restorative Schools Conference

 

I feel constantly curious with and responsible to the people who commit themselves to the work of Teacher Unite and feel grateful for their commitment that transforms the way I imagine myself and the work that we do together.

 

 

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Please donate to Teachers Unite today. 

 

Teachers Unite is the voice of NYC teachers who have limitless hope for the role public schools can have in creating a just society. 

 

Our members are not only speaking out, they are acting out!

  • They help schools organize Restorative Justice Teams.

  • They collaborate with youth organizations to change the city's School Discipline Code.

  • They produce media and resources that envision a humanistic approach to student discipline.

  • They transform their own school cultures and advocate to the DOE and UFT for help with doing so.

There is no other member organization of teachers doing this work. In fact, young people who meet our members are surprised to learn that there are teachers who don't just want to push students out of school. 
 
We have to show parents and young people that teachers are opposed to social and economic injustice.  Please click here to add yourself to this movement today!