Hi guys, welcome to Teacher's Off Duty. For those of you who may not be super familiar

with us, I'm Rebecca Rogers. I'm our Rogers World on all of my social media platforms.

I'm Lauren Wolley, Mrs. Wolley in fifth on all social media. I'm Brie Richardson,

honest teacher vibes on all social media platforms. And I'm Tao Williams, our Mr. Williams

pre-K on all social media. So I'm going to leave discussion today, which feels kind

of fine and fine. I have the talking stick. I have the talking stick. It's an elementary

thing. The only person who has the stick can talk. That would never work in middle

but now work in high school either. Absolutely. It would be through into space. Not yelling

trouble because somebody threw the talking stick. It's going to look a little different

today because we're going to talk about advocating for educators and teachers, which is obviously

very important to us as educators. And it's something that can be a little nerve-wracking

to get a little political or a lot of political. But I think that we would be remissed and

we wouldn't be doing using our platform to the fullest if we weren't supporting you all

in third conversation. So later in the episode, we're going to talk to Ben Yoder, who is a

music teacher in Indianapolis and part of the Indiana State Teachers Association. He's

on the board there. And we're going to talk about some of the bills, which I know probably

every listener who's a teacher has kids in schools has heard about. But we're going to

specifically talk about the Indiana bill 1134. And I think it's in the Senate now.

And then the Florida nickname don't say gay bill.

I also think that it would be really important. You know, a lot of our listeners aren't teachers.

And I think there are a lot of non-teachers out there that really don't understand how

detrimental these bills are. Not just those kids, but to our education system. Because at

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