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John, I became a Teachers Unify Ambassador for the same reason I became a teacher: hope.
As teachers, we choose to show up every day because we’re hopeful that we can make a difference. But let’s be really honest: Hope is harder and harder to come by some days.
When I walk into my school, I see so many students and educators doing amazing things. But I also see them looking over their shoulders for exit signs. I see teachers calculating which desks they could stack against the doorframe if they had to defend their kids quickly. It drains us. It devastates us.
What we can’t let it do is stop us.
See, the issue of gun violence is not theoretical for teachers. It has become an unavoidable part of our work. And I partner with Teachers Unify because I’ve decided our voices have to be an unavoidable part of the fight for change, too.
When teachers raise our voices and speak out for change, we’re renewing that sense of hope that things really can be better. Be safer. So I’m hoping you’ll stand with us, and donate today to help Teachers Unify keep encouraging us all to make that difference. Can you rush $25 now to empower more teachers to advocate for a safer, more hopeful future, free from gun violence >> ([link removed])
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In 2017, I was granted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as National Teacher of the Year. Just months later, on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, I found myself on a football field in Texas, reckoning with the question of how teachers can really use our power.
For seventeen minutes, local high school students lay on the ground, silent. They held signs that read, “How much am I worth?” and “Fear has no place at my school.”
In that moment, being an award-worthy teacher was not a matter of whether I “allowed” this action. Students have had enough, and are speaking out whether we give them “permission” or not. What the educators present needed to do was to partner with them. To join the fight. To amplify the message these kids were sending.
That’s what Teachers Unify does every day: shows us how to amplify the message that gun violence in schools must end. But for all the power teachers have, we don’t have experience as professional fundraisers.
So we need people like you to join up, too, and chip in what you can to fund the good fight. Please, will you donate $25 right now to amplify the thousands of hopeful voices pushing for safer schools? >> ([link removed])
Thank you so much,
Sydney Chaffee
Teachers Unify Ambassador
2017 National Teacher of the Year
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