Teacher Advocacy

Purple poster with pencils and dots, reading FINDING YOUR VOICE AS A TEACHER and TEDx subtitle by Erin Sponaugle.

Finding Your Voice as a Teacher: How TEDx Showed Me Why Speaking Up for Education Starts With Seeing Yourself as an Expert

Using your voice as a teacher is not about being bombastic or dramatic. It's not about starting things, or airing dirty laundry, or being the loudest person in the room. It's not about spilling tea, name-calling, or any of the other things that make administrators nervous and don't actually move anything forward. It's about being the professional voice of reason. Using what you know, from your actual daily experience in an actual classroom, to say the things that need to be s

Erin Sponaugle