When you are under siege from TOP-DOWN MANAGEMENT in your school district, and your profession is under siege from state legislatures and governors’ mansions, it is time to turn off the smart board (or put down the chalk), take a DEEP breath
And listen to your heart again.
Take strength from the IDEALS that made you become a Teacher.
Lift your head up slowly from a down-bent composure.
Stick out your jaw as you straighten up your vertebrae.
Bring your shoulders back, your chest out.
Feel your heart’s vibration go out with your breath.
Now dare to stick out your neck in the face of the Philistine!
We practice Guerrilla Teaching to re-establish professional and moral authority over classroom instruction. We express our authority in three ways— by asserting ourselves into our lesson planning, into our school’s instructional culture, and into the national discussion about what the purpose of an American education is. 
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GUERRILLA TEACHING 2/The Imperial Power of the LEFT (Brained)
Wow Howard! Is there really a manual in the works or was this it?? Glad to see you stirring things up with such potent images. I’m stealing this paragraph for my Facebook page, but I’ll credit you and send people here too: “There was a time in the New York City public school system when teachers had to force all children to write exclusively with their right hands. Today, all American teachers are being forced to make all children think exclusively with their left brains.”
yup
I am going to steal the paragraph also. It makes sooooo much sense to me!!