Teacher Resistance and Action Network (TRAAN)
TRAAN is a network of educators committed to resisting the standardization of curriculum, the corporatization of schooling, and high stakes testing regimes, all of which take shape at the expense of student learning and the democratic function of public schooling.
Members of TRAAN share stories and strategies for resistance in real practice and work together to take pedagogical, curricular, educational, and political action to enhance teaching and learning despite the technical, mechanical, and bureaucratic impediments of the day. They meet digitally and face-to-face to generate new knowledge and solidarity for the work at hand.
Several initial outlets for the work include:
TRAAN is a network of educators committed to resisting the standardization of curriculum, the corporatization of schooling, and high stakes testing regimes, all of which take shape at the expense of student learning and the democratic function of public schooling.
Members of TRAAN share stories and strategies for resistance in real practice and work together to take pedagogical, curricular, educational, and political action to enhance teaching and learning despite the technical, mechanical, and bureaucratic impediments of the day. They meet digitally and face-to-face to generate new knowledge and solidarity for the work at hand.
Several initial outlets for the work include:
- An interactive website where members can share stories and strategies through the website's blog: www.traan.weebly.com;
- An annual spring meeting whose content is generated with "open space technology," so that members hold the power for the organization's key functions of sharing information and taking action;
- The publication of the proceedings from the annual meeting, to be shared more widely with an engaged public;
- And expectations that the group will influence other larger bodies (such as Save Our Schools, United Opt Out National, Rethinking Schools, Uniting 4 Kids, Strong Schools: Strong Communities, for example) in ways that will engage individual members' own professional development, and the advancement of the network's causes through larger, more established networks at conferences, rallies, political protests, and on pending legislation/public policy.