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Tenure: How Due Process Protects Teachers and Students, American VOL. 39, NO. 2 | SUMMER 2015 www.aft.org /ae TenureHOW DUE PROCESS PROTECTS TEACHERS AND STUDENTS PAGE 4 12 20 27 32 Supporting Students The Inuence of The Need for More Education Ideas at Our with Autism A Nation at Risk Teachers of Color Nation’s Founding YEAR IN REVIEW WHERE WE STAND Summer 2014 Teaching Vocabulary in the Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Can Early Childhood Classroom Teachers Help Reduce Math Anxiety? B S B. N T S. W B S L. B D T. W The Importance of Early Learning The Challenge of B C D Helping Students Write B A W Why Curriculum Content Is Like Oxygen B C G L H Fall 2014 The Case for High-Quality CTE Combining Rigorous Academics with B J R. S III Career Training B R B. S Not Your Father’s Shop Class: Bridging the Academic-Vocational Divide Notes from New York City B M R B M M A Toledo Public School Prepares Reframing, Reimagining, and Students for College and Career Reinvesting in CTE B J D B J H. J J H Winter 2014–2015 Restoring Shanker’s Student Problem-Solving in Vision for Charter Schools Elementary Classrooms B R D. K H P B J C Want to Close the Achievement Gap? How Librarians Support Close the Teaching Gap Students and Schools B L D-H B J F Pushing Back Against High Stakes for The Surprising Depth and Students with Disabilities Complexity of Children’s Literature B B T B S L Spring 2015 Engaging Students in Reading Puzzling Out PISA B D T. W B W H. S N A. B Quieting the Teacher Wars B D G Group Work for the Good B T B How a Philosophy Curriculum Took Shape and Took Off Helping Educators Create B D S Meaningful Change B F M. H These issues are available at www.aft.org/ae. WHERE WE STAND Why Unions Must Keep Up the Fight RANDI WEINGARTEN, AFT President WHEN I WAS A TEACHER at Clara public education, teacher voice, and the Court may decide to consider related Barton High School in Brooklyn, New labor movement—a coordinated cam- issues in Friedrichs v. California Teachers York, my principal suggested I use my paign led by wealthy and anti-union Association. ¨e plainti©s in Friedrichs skills as a lawyer to teach a street law interests like the Koch brothers, Ameri- aim to break unions by eliminating the class. One year, I decided to take a chance cans for Prosperity, and the hedge funders. fee paid by those who have union bene§ts and set up a mock housing court. I was so It’s ultimately about our economy, our but don’t join. Agency fee re±ects the cost excited that the kids were really prepared, democracy, and who holds the power. to the union of representing all workers in had learned how to interview witnesses, Our adversaries don’t want a virtuous a bargaining unit. It’s also known as fair how to elicit facts, how to argue the law— cycle that gives everyone a shot at the share, because it’s only fair if everyone in other words, how to engage in project- American dream, with access to a who bene§ts from the services a union based instruction with a real-life high-quality public education, jobs with provides also chips in to cover the cost of approach—that I invited the assistant fair wages, and a secure retirement—all of those bene§ts. principal to come watch. My kids were so engaged that in some ways it was like New York City Housing Court. Next thing These court cases are part of a growing effort I knew, my assistant principal was telling to silence working people and stie their me the lesson wasn’t good because it was rowdy and I could have lost control of my economic aspirations. class. I fought back, and because I had legal experience I had the bene§t of the doubt. Many teachers don’t. ¨at’s why which help each generation climb the ¨ese court cases are part of a growing due process is so important. ladder of opportunity and help our e©ort to silence working people and sti±e As Rick Kahlenberg clearly explains in communities thrive. ¨ey don’t want to their economic aspirations. With inequal- this issue’s cover story, due process, also change the status quo of the greatest ity in America reaching historic heights known as tenure, gives teachers the ability income inequality since the Great and economic polarization at its most to §ght for necessary services for their Depression. So they seek to defund and extreme, people are increasingly turning kids. It’s an e©ective tool to recruit and deprofessionalize public education. to the labor movement for fairness, retain teachers. And while it should never ¨is relentless assault continues in our opportunity, justice, and real change. become a cloak for incompetence—if nation’s statehouses—with governors like Union members have higher wages, someone can’t teach after being prepared Scott Walker, Bruce Rauner, and even access to healthcare, a secure retirement, and supported, he or she shouldn’t be in Andrew Cuomo—stacking the deck and due process. ¨is has a multiplier our profession—it’s what teachers need to against students, families, and educators. e©ect, invigorating communities and do their jobs well. ¨is relentless assault continues in the growing the middle class. Our opponents ¨e §ght we’re in to protect teachers’ courts with cases that would “defund understand this. ¨ey are stepping up the due process rights—in California, New unions, destroy solidarity, and erase the assault in our nation’s legislatures and in York, and, if the rumors are true, states bene§ts of union membership—even our courts because they know that unions like Minnesota and New Mexico—is while bizarrely admitting that union and a strong public sector help create about a fundamental freedom that strikes membership does, in fact, bring workers shared prosperity. at the heart of what it means to be a … strong bene§ts,” as Moshe Marvit wrote Which is why we must keep up the teacher, to create, to innovate, to §nd new in In ese Times. §ght. Because as these attacks have made ways to light the spark in the minds of our Take a recent court case §led in clear, power never yields willingly. kids that could become the §re that sets California. In Bain v. California Teachers We’ve weathered these storms before, them on a path to a brighter future. We all Association, the argument isn’t about and we’ve come out stronger for it—by remember that moment, or that teacher. whether unions provide much-needed standing together. ¨is may not be a §ght Due process protects those moments and bene§ts. Instead, the plainti©s are we sought, but it’s also not a §ght we those teachers. claiming that as nonmembers of a union, intend to lose. ¨e future of the middle However, this attack on the teaching they should still get the full bene§ts of class, the promise of high-quality public profession isn’t about what’s best for kids. belonging to a union, for free. education, and the strength of our It’s part of a larger e©ort to dismantle On a national level, the U.S. Supreme democracy all depend on us. Follow Randi Weingarten: twitter.com/rweingarten. AMERICAN EDUCATOR | SUMMER 2015 1 Download this issue for free at www.aft.org/ae. MAILBOX VOL. 39, NO. 2 | SUMMER 2015 www.aft.org /ae OUR MISSION ¨e American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions 4 Tenure fairness; democracy; economic How Due Process Protects opportunity; and high-quality public Teachers and Students education, healthcare and public B R D. K services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed For more than 100 years, tenure has provided due process rights to teachers to advancing these principles through who have demonstrated competence after a probationary period. But tenure community engagement, organizing, is under attack, with critics wrongfully portraying it as a job for life. While collective bargaining and political tenure laws were established to protect teachers from favoritism and to ensure activism, and especially through the work students were educated free from political whims, such laws remain necessary our members do. today given the §xation on high-stakes testing and the tying of students’ test scores to teacher evaluations. Yet corporate reformers have seized on tenure RANDI WEINGARTEN as the root cause of educational inequality in an attempt to diminish the President power of unions and to detract from the real threats to public education: LORRETTA JOHNSON Secretary-Treasurer poverty and segregation. MARY CATHRYN RICKER Executive Vice President AMY M. HIGHTOWER Editor 12 Connecting the Dots today and are ones that teachers JENNIFER DUBIN Managing Editor Supporting Students with must confront if they are to success- fully advocate for their students and MIKE ROSE Autism Spectrum Disorder Contributing Writer push back against top-down B S L. O JANE FELLER reforms. SEAN LISHANSKY C W Copyeditors As the rates of students LAWRENCE W. MCMAHON 24 A Closer Look at the Editorial Assistant with autism spectrum Commission’s Work JENNIFER CHANG disorder soar, educa- B T T Art Director tors are increasingly MICHELLE FURMAN teaching such stu- Graphic Designer 27 The Professional Educator JENNIFER BERNEY dents but may be The Need for More Production Coordinator unsure how to help AMERICAN EDUCATOR (ISSN 0148-432X, USPS 008-462) Teachers of Color them succeed.
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