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Even as the floor drops. >> part of what people are protesting now is everything to do with the race, but there's also distennesscontent on the s forces getting worse. people feel like what it takes to get elected now, it is harder to get people's voices heard in a certain kind of way. in a way, this moment calls for the true lesson of the 1960s is new forms of coalitions. what kind of coalitions will come out of this moment. we'll let you have a unified voice to impact change. i want to listen to gardner who said it may not just be -- this is the widow of eric gardner. we'll listen to this go...

And really be thought partners like vicky phillips was talking about, in decision making, tremendous things can happen. i think we can break those kind of outcomes into three categories. when teachers weigh in, we improve policies for kids. we can change the perception that educators have from the public. we can also empower students. what happens when -- it sort of starts in our classrooms. the thing that really fuels me is whether or not my students are learning. so at my school, when there's things getting in the way of student learning, i really wanted to make some changes and had some con...

Lose 30% of their best teachers. i think one of the most powerful answers is teacher voice. in organizations like teach plus policy teaching fellows and the science teaching foundation, educators for excellence that started in new york, they've figured out how to bring the kind of training and support teachers need to amplify our voices and become agents of change within our profession. so it starts with raising the standard for how to get in, but then the real challenge is having teachers set the standard for how to remain in the profession and how to fix the problems we find. >> to our guest...

How we can change the fact you guys don't feel appreciate pd. >> absolutely. i think one of the challenges we have is we know the money is not there to pay us all the time what we deserve. if you look at statistics of what keeps teachers in the profession, it's having that voice and having the opportunity to impact change. i think often in our nation we give a lot of lip service to including teacher voice, but it's time to start taking some of those actions. if you're a group that speaks about education, i challenge you to not have that conversation unless you have an equal number of practicin...

Happens, then we'll see a dramatic shift in how we are treated as professionals. the last part is thinking about how we can empower students. when we bring the media into our classrooms and bring policymakers into our classrooms to see what's happening, we broadcast loud and clear that what we're doing and what our students are doing is important. we send a message to them that's bigger than saying, i believe in you. so when npr came into my classroom to do a story on race and genetics, instead of staying 30 minutes, they stayed the entire day. my students heard loud and clear that what they s...