OK, let’s look at something new today: how workers in another field besides education communicate publicly about an issue. Let’s compare teachers vs female game designers. The issue is sexual harassment in the video game industry, and this story on NBCNews.com quotes a storm of Twitter feeds by women telling their harassment stories. And if you go to #1ReasonWhy you’ll see that men are joining the chorus as well. These people have jobs they don’t want to lose. But they go ahead and speak up.

Teachers, let’s learn from these people about how to advocate for ourselves.