The Philosophy

I am a Guerilla Teacher. I fight against apathy and attrition everyday. I use whatever resources I can find. I teach for a higher purpose. My students have become disenfranchised, disillusioned, and disconnected. I strive to bring them back, I strive to guide them. My resources are dwindiling and rarely replenished. Yet, I believe in what I do. I believe I was made to be a teacher.

I am a Guerilla Teacher. I meet my students in their world, the world they have derived meaning from. A world where information flows freely. Never has a time existed when information and knowledge have been so readily accessed as it does now. Never have we had the oppurtunity to be so interconnected. This changes things, teachers are not threshhold guardians of knowledge anymore. We are not gatekeepers, the gate has been forgotten and the wall has been breached. I am excited and invigorated by this shift. I see limitless vistas of possibilities.

This is not a revolution of technology. It is instead, a revolution of philosophy. This is a call to arms. Make no mistake,my fellow educators, we are at war. It is not a war we haven't fought before and it is not a war where the stakes are higher. It is a war where the rules have changed, the roles have changed. We are now the ones in survival mode. The societal perception of our value and worth is under scrutiny. Out of this scrutiny we can be reborn as something different. We can be reborn as educators who understand and employ new techniques, innovative of learning. All that is needed is a change in philosophy. Join me and become a Guerilla Teacher.