Weiner 2012

• Not very analytical, but good use of concepts, free-flowing, like an easy reader for teachers
• Protecting the heart of teaching
• "our responsibility to do right by our students is at the heart of teaching...tachers are pressured to carry out mandates that harm kids." (15)
• a good teachers union has special moral and political respnsobilities because of teachers' work (21)
• to destroy teachers autonomy is to destroy an important space for training and discussing civil rights, social justice, critical thought, and ideas of freedom (21)
• teachers reproduce society, students are forced to be in schools, and thus forced to be exposed to either good or bad teachers (22)
• teaching is caring (24-25) and teachers need to work with parents and the community (26-27)
• argues teachers are "idea workers", and that unions protects teachers' freedom to teach ideas, even those the union may not like (30)
• neoliberalism has painted teachers' uniosn in a bad light, but it gives them the opportunity to increase the purview of their bargaining beyond merely wages and hours (31)
• Building a social movement union
• campaigns have been successfully built around halting school closures in many cities (38-39)
• expanding the issues on which teachers' union advocate (39-40)
• teachers' unions must package demands of salary and benefits with class size to make sure they aren't utterly sacrificing students' interests (47-48)
• Unions need to have courage, be caring, and critique (64-72)
• teachers and studnets are "victimized" by the lack of democracy in schools, which hinders teachers and schools' ability to work creatively and help their studnets (116-117)
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