Our country desperately needs a
progressive teacher union movement that fully embraces customized teaching and learning, decentralized decision - making, and empowerment of students and educators.
The Tom Mooney Institute for Teacher and Union Leadership is an effort by seasoned local leaders within
the teacher union movement to develop the leadership skills and organizational capacity of the next generation of reform minded teacher unionists.
But this further split of
the teacher union movement is in danger of further dividing a profession that desperately needs unity in the face of attacks on many fronts.
Now, more than ever, progressive teacher union leadership is needed if
the teacher union movement is going to survive.