“Being a member of Teachers Unite consistently refreshes my energy and excitement about teaching & learning.”
our mission
Teachers Unite is an independent organization of New York City public school educators organizing for racial and economic justice. Together with students and families, we build power at and across our schools to grow Restorative Justice, end criminalization, and transform public education.
our principles of unity
We believe that schools should be liberatory. We organize alongside students and their families to redistribute power and bring about just, community-led schools.
We believe Restorative Justice is critical to building school cultures of respect, dignity, safety, learning, and healing. We champion and practice Restorative Justice to grow the skills and relationships that actualize these values.
We believe in a future free from policing and imprisonment. We leverage schools as sites of resistance; reject practices that punish, surveil, and push young people out of school; and work to disentangle public schools from the prison industrial complex.
We believe racial justice is core to the labor movement. We push our union to advance racial and economic justice and to move in solidarity with students and their families.
We believe schools should be governed by the public, accountable to the public, and funded entirely by the public. We unite with movements demanding community controlled and abundantly funded public schools.
our vision
We envision public schools full of resources and opportunities for young people, where Restorative Justice is ingrained in the fabric of school communities.
We envision the abolition of the prison industrial complex, and public schools free from policing.
We envision a democratic teachers union that places racial and economic justice at the heart of its work, and fights for the dignity of students.
We envision a public education system governed by the people, robustly funded through public dollars, and sustaining liberatory education.
