This episode covers the two year fight that two CEA members led and won. It's a testament to the strength of a union, the strength of friendship, and the importance of literature.

Axois article: https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2021/10/25/get-to-know-the-4-candidates-for-columbus-city-council

Tomatoes for Neela: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://i0.wp.com/juanamartinezneal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TomatoesForNeela_2627.jpg?ssl%3D1&tbnid=Aw8oYANpUKx5qM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https://juanamartinezneal.com/books/tomatoes/&docid=Yt9v1oACPoyyhM&w=2560&h=1617&source=sh/x/im/m1/1&kgs=5690958074e22fd0

In the final part of the Community Campus School series, Chris Monteiro recalls the end of the school year and the escalation of the fight for the coordinator position. Interspersed are voice recordings from other CEA members on the Northland implementation team that help shape the story and the vision of what could be possible for the future of public education.

I continue the conversation with Chris about how the bosses started to strategically keep the win from the workers. This episode explains how the fight for the coordinator started and why. We speak about working conditions and worker exploitation in our workplace along the way.

In the first episode of this three-part series, I talk to Chris Monteiro from Northland High School about what a community campus school is, wtf is wrong with our schools, how community schools can be a solution, and how the bosses laid the groundwork for keeping us down. ...or at least, trying to. ;)

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This episode is about retaliation in response to the the union organizing at Independence High School in the fall of 2024, when the building enrolled hundreds more students, and supplied no additional staff.

CCS Board meeting referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMlTLJinVs

Dispatch article #1 referenced: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2024/11/07/influx-of-haitian-students-straining-resources-at-independence-high/76096332007/

Dispatch article #2 referenced (paywalled): https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2025/01/09/columbus-city-schools-teacher-union-complaint-board-president-teacher/77552934007/

On this episode I interview CCS String Specialist Andrea, who gives me a crash course in music education and how it's changed in the district over the course of 20+ years. Andrea works at 4 schools in 3 buildings every single day, and sheds light on the lengths that music teachers have to go to in order for students to have instruments.

Allison and I chat about the job of a middle school librarian, what's a stake with not staffing school libraries, what middle school students are reading these days, and how educators get put in the role of "supervisor" when that's not what we signed up for (...or what our license covers).

• 1:30: School set-up
• 5:27: Start of school day
• 7:00: Scripted curriculum
• 14:40: Classroom splits
• 23:57: I-ready curriculum
• 33:25: End of day
• 37:21: Planning?
• 40:00: RIMPs
• 54:39: What would make your job easier?