Episode 33:How A Collective Movement Around The Country Will Lead To Safer And Emotionally Responsive Schools: A ConversationWith Luke Amplett

On Today's Warriors of Education Podcast I speak to Organizer and Activist Luke Amphlett from San Antonio Texas about how he is working with teachers across the country to create a collective movement of change in a unsafe and uncertain future of education. "It is on us (teachers) to make sure that it isn't worse than it already is. Educators are really in the only position to change that. Educators are the most organized, most unified and progressive people. National organizations are acting collectively- in Austin, Little Rock, Chicago, LA and with MORE( movement of rank in file) in NYC.

Luke Amphlett is a teacher and union steward at Burbank High School in San Antonio. He serves as a high school rep on the Executive Council of the San Antonio Alliance, a merged AFT/NEA local in representing school workers in San Antonio ISD, and is a founding member of PODER, a rank-and-file social justice caucus within the union