When Classroom Practice Meets Education Policy: Meet five teachers who’ve taken it on themselves to step out of the classroom and advocate for improvements in schools.

The article discusses individual effort of five teachers who have advocated for improvements in schools and federal education policy changes. The initiatives of math teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah Meghan Everette, teacher of algebra, geometry, and physics from New York John Troutman McCrann, and English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher from Leander, Texas José Rodríguez are presented.