Quite simply, these authors make advocacy seem not just possible, but also absolutely necessary.—Bob Fecho, Professor & Program Director, English Education, Teachers College Columbia University
Cathy Fleischer and Antero Garcia have written a book with (and for) teachers that shows us how to advocate for change across the spectrum of the educational landscape.—Andy Schoenborn, high school teacher and author of Creating Confident Writers: For High School, College, and Life
This book is essential reading for any teacher committed to making their part of the world a better place...It focuses on what teachers can do within their classrooms, schools, and districts, recognizing the incredible diversity among students, teachers, and their contexts. —Mollie Blackburn, Professor, Ohio University and editor of Adventurous Thinking: Students' Rights to Read and Write
Everyday Advocacy builds upon decades of teacher research and knowledge from leaders in the field. This volume is timely and a welcome addition to conversations about teaching in our current environment of societal redefinition and change.
—Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games
This volume assembles an impressive roster of educators who understand classrooms and kids, and who know what needs to be done to make their learning more relevant and the lives of educators themselves more satisfying. It's time that the people running things start listening to them, and this book is a great place to start. —Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor, The University of Georgia
Everyday Advocacy is a usable, practical guide to help teachers and teacher educators think about approaches to extend their critical thinking about traditional pedagogies to include advocacy for all children, particularly historically marginalized students.
—Tonya B. Perry, PhD, Professor and Executive Director of GEAR UP Alabama and Red Mountain Writing Project
[A] must-have for educators everywhere. Antero Garcia and Cathy Fleischer invite all of us into the world of advocacy work. They help us expand the definition of what it means to advocate, and they give us many ways to join in the work of changing the narrative of literacy education. I can't imagine a more important time for this book. —Franki Sibberson, educator, author, NCTE Past President
Everyday Advocacy functions not merely as a textbook, but also as a guidebook for empowering teachers to own their platforms for advocacy that could change the face of education as we know it. Fleischer and Garcia go beyond offering refreshing solutions and ideas as they map out the exact steps to take, points of contact to create, and the ways to keep literacy advocacy work relevant and sustainable. This text provides answers to questions that teachers possibly did not even know that they should ask.
—Teachers College Record
Throughout their book Fleisher and Garcia encourage teachers to embrace 'advocacy knowledge' as part of teacher identity in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge. They offer a three-part framework to help teachers understand how to challenge and change narratives around literacy education.—Eric D. Turley, high school English teacher and co-author of Our Better Judgement ; member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment
