Terra Firma Teaching Alliance is a support network of teachers and for teachers, concerning issues they and their students face around pressure to conform to a critical social justice agenda.
At Terra Firma, we are committed to the motto: Pedagogy, Not Ideology. We currently host regular "Teachers' Lounge" meetings twice a week. Our meetings are workshop environments, where educators propose options, strategize, and debrief the outcomes of attempts to address specific problems in their schools and classrooms. These meetings are Saturdays at 2pm EST and Wednesdays at 6:30pm EST, and practicing K-12 teachers, tutors, and teacher candidates will be considered. Attendance is free, and anonymity and confidentiality are respected.
If you are or know someone we could help, please share our contact email: [email protected] We recommend all interested teachers connect with us from a personal email account. Once you contact us we will ask that you schedule a short introductory meeting with us, in order to sustain trust among members of the network.
Types of issues we address include:
● How best to add broader perspectives to one-sided curricula
● Coping with/resisting ideological/identity-focused bullying in DEI or critical
social justice training, on ourselves, colleagues, and students.
● Contesting inappropriate material, filing a grievance
● When--and how--to speak up at faculty meetings
● Handling pressure to conform to critical social justice from superintendents,
admin or department heads
● Deteriorating discipline
● Engaging with colleagues who are exclusively promoting a critical social justice
agenda.
● How to be most effective working with concerned parents and other
stakeholders within a school community
● Union concerns, as well as local and state laws relevant to public, private, and
homeschooling
In every situation we consider, students are our primary and ultimate concern. How can we, as committed teachers, best disrupt the moral intimidation and one-sided perspective that students face daily from critical social justice programming, while staying at our posts within the system? Because once a good teacher leaves, it's likely an ideologue will take our place.
We are K-12 educators concerned about the deterioration of elementary, middle, and secondary education in the United States. We work together to support one another and to develop effective methods for promoting the balanced and high quality education that students deserve.
Leadership:
CEO, Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder
Bonnie is an educator with 20+ years of experience in both K-12 and higher ed, certified in elementary education, secondary English, and secondary guidance. She was the Director of K-12 Outreach at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and wrote Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools. Bonnie is connected with concerned teachers throughout the country who have reached out to her in recent years for help.
COO, Paul Rossi
Paul is a veteran mathematics and philosophy teacher who blew the whistle on indoctrination at Grace Church School in Manhattan in 2021. He has researched and written about the politicization of education for The Wall Street Journal, The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, Parents Unite, and The Legal Insurrection Foundation. He has also presented for The Manhattan Institute, Parents Defending Education, Moms for Liberty, and Education Veritas. Paul is a trusted resource for dozens of K-12 teachers nationally.
