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The Teacher Tunnel Podcast is a real, entertaining, and enlightening look at teachers and leaders in education and beyond. We learn from these leaders' narrative, daily rituals, habits, and routines. As a teacher and life-long learner, Jon Belt wants to bring great people and thinkers to the surface and share their stories.

#38 - Begging for Education with Teresa Danks - Oklahoma Teacher Walkout 0

Mar 21, 2018

In this episode, I speak with the Teresa Danks aka "The Panhandling Teacher. Teresa has been featured on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and even the Harry Connick Jr. Show. Like many teachers in this nation, Teresa was fed up with the lack of respect towards teachers in this state and instead of waiting for someone else to step up she started voicing here concerns — first with panhandling for classroom supplies and then creating a petition after another teacher pay increase in Oklahoma failed on the Senate floor.

We discuss Teresa's journey up until this point, the fear that teachers need to relinquish, and some action steps and advice to those teachers listening.

Show Notes

Introduction of Teresa
Panhandling for the Classroom
Raising $40,000 for teachers
After the failure of Step-Up
Petition for Walkout
Non-Profit Begging for Education
Action Steps Today
- Call up another teacher, parent, or Oklahoma citizen
- Make some signs
- Go on a busy corner and hold up the signs

Quotes from the episode

“A teacher like you is why I'm alive today." Unknown

"You would not believe how hard it is to give away money in education." Teresa Danks Roark

"We have nothing else to lose but have everything to gain and we are worth it." Teresa Danks Roark

"Fears are educated into us, and can if we wish, be educated out."Karl Augustus Menninger

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#37 - Advice for Oklahoma Teachers from West Virginia - Oklahoma Teacher Walkout 0

Mar 18, 2018

Teacher Tunnel Podcast #37

In this episode, we speak with two West Virginia teachers that made a big impact in their county and state. Catherine Pizzino and Greg Phillips speak about the beginning and end of the West Virginia teacher strike plus give advice to those Oklahoma teachers currently in limbo.

Show Notes

The beginning of the walkout
Informational Pickets
The Washington Post contacts Cathy
Get ALL State employees on your side
Greg and the stress of the walkout
Why we need Unions
Get a Megaphone
Get Creative with signs and chants

"Our worst enemy was ourselves." Greg Phillips

What can teachers do now?

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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TTP #36 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout - Larry Cagle - Oklahoma Teachers United 0

Mar 12, 2018

Teacher Tunnel Podcast

Teacher Tunnel Podcast has taken a bit of a break since our last episode, and was planning on pushing out the new season of the podcast later in the month, but due to the current situation in Oklahoma I thought it would be a great time to talk with the leaders of a few movements happening in this great state.

In the episode, we discuss the Oklahoma Walkout and the impact it will have on our state, we discuss student walkouts and what to do if your son, daughter or student is fired up to invoke change and take a stand, and where this state is headed if something doesn’t get fixed.