Promoting teacher advocacy as critical teacher leadership / Jill Bradley-Levine.

Timely and accessible, this book critically explores the meaning and practice of teacher advocacy. Drawing from the work of teachers who advocate with and for students who are traditionally marginalized⁰́₄including students of color, students with exceptionalities, students in poverty, and immigrant students⁰́₄this volume investigates classroom realities like inequitable distribution of resources, student trauma, and uneven support for teachers⁰́₉ work from administrators. Unlike other texts on teacher activism, this book embeds activism within an existing leadership framework and strategies that teachers enact within the classroom, across the school, and in their communities. Foregrounding data in the five case studies, this book is an invaluable resource for pre-service teachers and scholars in teacher education, social justice education, and educational leadership.

Part 1: Teacher Advocacy with and for StudentsChapter 1: The Importance of AdvocacyChapter 2: Teachers who AdvocatePart 2: Teacher Advocacy as Leadership PracticeChapter 3: Advocacy in the ClassroomChapter 4: Advocacy across the SchoolChapter 5: Advocacy for Social ChangePart 3: Advocacy as Critical Teacher LeadershipChapter 6: Addressing the Challenges of AdvocacyChapter 7: Critical Teacher Leadership Theory