What is a Transformative Teacher?

For this conversation, we are joined by Kira Baker Doyle, author of the new book, Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World, which follows civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory practices and connected technologies to organize change from the ground up. In this 3-part series, we explore what it means to be a transformative teacher, along with how and why educators are instrumental in the creation of a more just and equitable future.

Part 2: Designing, Organizing, and Leading in a Connected World

Part 3: Transformative Teachers and Educational Change

Related Resources:

• Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World by Kira Baker-Doyle
• Facebook group for Transformative Teachers book groups/readers
• Book groups in Philly happening through TAG/WE (group facilitated by Kira and Sam)
• Faces of the Layoffs, Media Mobilizing Project
• A Teacher Activist’s Response to Schools Closing by Sam Reed in the University of Pennsylvania Urban Education Journal
• Rules of Engagement Igniting and Challenging Kids’ Creativity Passion and Empathy, by Sam Reed via Heinemann Digital Campus
• Everyday Advocacy: Changing the Narrative about Literacy Education
• The Networked Teacher by Kira Baker-Doyle
• SLA’s Social Justice Alphabet