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Looking under the hood at teacher policy advocacy with May Hara and Annalee Good


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In Episode 2 of Season 2, we talk with Dr. May Hara of Framingham State University and Dr. Annalee Good of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research about their new book, Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change. Following the book’s chapter themes, we discuss policy areas of school safety and discipline, assessment, public health and COVID-19, and digital learning, specifically highlighting areas where the languages of DatabasED potentially intersect. In the words of Dr. Good, the episode helps us “look under the hood” of how education policies can be accessed and addressed by teachers and how teacher policy advocacy often intersects with school and district leadership and even district technology offices.
Show resources:

  • Website for Teachers as Policy Advocates: https://www.tcpress.com/teachers-as-policy-advocates-9780807767948 

  • EdCamps: https://digitalpromise.org/edcamp/

  • Research on EdCamps: Swanson et al. (2014). The Edcamp Model: Powering Up Professional Learning. Published by SAGE. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/book/edcamp-model 

  • Research on policies around Google and data privacy:

    • Lindh, M., & Nolin, J. (2016). Information we collect: Surveillance and privacy in the implementation of Google apps for education. European Educational Research Journal, 15(6), 644-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904116654917   

    • Perrotta, C., Gulson, K. N., Williamson, B., & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom. Critical Studies in Education, 62(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1855597 

    • “Street-level bureaucrats:

      • Weatherley, R., & Lipsky, M. Street-level bureaucrats and institutional innovation: Implementing special-education reform. Harvard Educational Review, 47(2), 171-197. https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-47,-issue-2/herarticle/implementing-special-education-reform_903 

      • Related writings from Hara & Good:

        • Blog post on Chat GTP policies: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/responding-chatgpt-schools-effective-policy-design-include-teachers/ 

        • Blog post on gun policies: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/effective-school-gun-policy-requires-teacher-voice-strategies-support-teacher-policy-advocacy/ 


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