| Annalea Stevenson 11/25/2019 |
Annalea Stevenson is a teacher at Sadler Arts Academy in Muskogee, OK and has taught grades 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th. She has spent the last 7 years in 5th grade. She loves her students and feels like teaching… |
| Carla Cale 09/30/2019 |
Carla Cale has experienced two walkouts, one as a new teacher, and one as a veteran teacher while serving as the president of the district's union. She is a first generation college graduate. She has a… |
| Cassie Herndon 01/22/2020 |
Cassie Herndon experienced the walkout as a first-year teacher at Stillwater Junior High School. She participated in helping create data and social media outreach with the Oklahoma Teachers Facebook page.… |
| Charlie Dugan 12/15/2019 |
Charles 'Charlie' Dugan is Sapulpa district's longest teaching member, with 40+ years in the district. He is a history teacher, department chair, and coaches multiple sports. |
| Chuck McCauley 11/12/2019 |
Chuck McCauley is the superintendent of Bartlesville Public Schools, and a key instigator for the walkouts. He played a role in advocating for the action among superintendents in the Tulsa area and across… |
| Claudia Swisher 10/03/2019 |
Claudia Swisher is incredibly active in state politics. Legislators know her by name (she shares that this is both positive and negative). Claudia participated in the strike back in 1990, and discusses… |
| Colby Torres 11/07/2019 |
At the time of the interview, Colby Torres had just stepped into an intervention specialist position at Will Rogers Elementary after teaching 3rd and 4th grade. He has served in Oklahoma City inner-city… |
| Dillon Graham 10/08/2019 |
Dillon Graham was a student teacher during the 2018 Oklahoma walkouts. He shares his experiences on how being very new to teaching impacted how he viewed the importance of the walkouts. He also grew up… |
| Emily Beers 01/24/2020 |
Emily Beers became a teacher in 2011 after working in a special education classroom. She developed a leadership capacity in her time as a special education teacher. She taught in a brick-and-mortar school… |
| Heather Anderson 11/18/2019 |
Up until the current academic year, Heather Anderson was an award-winning English/Language Arts educator and mock trial coach at Stillwater Junior High. Heather describes the lead-up to the strike in Oklahoma… |
| Heather Boyle 11/14/2019 |
Heather Boyle shares the importance of the small Bartlesville community-based organization, Public Education Advocates for Kids (PEAK), in organizing the walkouts, including ensuring children were fed… |
| Heather Cody 12/09/2019 |
Heather Cody worked in Tulsa Public Schools at Mayo Demonstration Academy during the walkouts. She is now working for Oklahoma Education Association as the teaching/learning specialist for Eastern Oklahoma.… |
| Heather Davis 10/03/2019 |
In a very emotional interview, Heather Davis, a veteran elementary educator and Bartlesville Education Association president, describes her strong feelings about the walkouts. She is glad they happened… |
| Jody Webber 12/19/2019 |
Jody Webber has taught for at least five different schools from rural to 6A. She was active during the walkout in talking with many representatives. Her heart is in education. She has many family members… |
| Jon Beckloff 10/10/2019 |
Jon Beckloff's mother was an educator who walked in the 1990 walkouts and was active in her local union, the Bartlesville Education Association. Jon recalls how his mother worked hard to address a wage… |
| Kate Baker 10/16/2019 |
As part of the Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association (TCTA), Kate Baker worked as one of the organizers for the 110 mile walk from Tulsa to the Capitol. She went to school for education but decided that… |
| Katelyn Butler 02/12/2020 |
Katelyn Butler gives a window into what it was like to be a preservice teacher during the walkout. Katelyn discusses her classes, classmates, and observing teachers during this time. She also briefly discusses… |
| Megan Ruby 09/18/2019 |
During the 2018 walkouts, Megan Ruby was a middle school science teacher in Tulsa Public Schools. Her narrative recounts her experiences coming to teaching through a traditional teacher education program,… |
| Michelle Stevenson 11/30/2019 |
Michelle Stevenson has worked in education at all levels, but taught 8th grade English at Hale Junior High School in Tulsa Public Schools for three years and at the time of the Oklahoma walkout. She is… |
| Michelle Waters 11/02/2019 |
Michelle Waters' district did not participate in the walkout, but Michelle did (and still does) remain active on social media. She believes in teacher advocacy to enact change in our educational system. |
| Nicole Rice 12/17/2019 |
Nicole 'Nikki' Rice joined Broken Arrow first as a fourth grade teacher and then as a 7th grade science teacher. She would like to impact discipline policies, which don't take into account the context… |
| Paige White 02/13/2020 |
Paige White recounts her experience walking from Tulsa to Oklahoma City. She discusses the emotional experiences along the way, both positive and negative, and the effect of the relationships formed. She… |
| Rebecca Maldonado 01/15/2020 |
Rebecca 'Becki' Maldonado discussed activism: before, during, and after the walkout. The walkout led her to running for state government, which she didn't win; however, she strongly believes in teacher… |
| Searcy Crow 11/05/2019 |
Searcy Crow is a teacher at Stillwater Junior High School who was very involved in the 2018 walkout and has a variety of perspectives about how the union worked during the walkout. Her mother was a teacher,… |
| Shafa Chaudhry 09/27/2019 |
During the walkouts, Shafa Chaudhry, was a 7th grade Geography teacher. She was at the end of her second year at a district she really loves and a school she considers to be like extended family. Her first… |
| Shari Gateley 01/19/2020 |
Shari Gateley presented a positive picture of an active union, which led to much more active participation at the walkout. |
| Sue Ann Hoffman 09/23/2019 |
Sue Hoffman, teacher at Stillwater High School, talks about her education background including her experience in a one room schoolhouse and graduating from Oklahoma State University in business education.… |
| Theodore Simonelli 02/14/2020 |
Theodore 'Teddy' Simonelli was a first year Teach for America teacher working on his Master's in Education during the walkout. He discusses what it was like to observe the event from the outside and how… |
| Vanessa Jones 09/22/2019 |
Vanessa Jones, a prekindergarten teacher at Holland Hall Primary School in Tulsa, began by describing her experience in teaching, which is mostly privately based, but is also very supportive of public… |
