Northern Notes- Fighting for Public Education in the Last Frontier

Northern Notes- Fighting for Public Education in the Last Frontier Philip Walters is a middle school band teacher, coach, musher and advocate for arts education. He competed as a rookie in the Iditarod in 2015.

Philip Walters is a middle school band teacher who began running sled dogs in 2007. He fell in love with running dogs, and competed in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in 2015. As a veteran music educator, Philip has become increasingly motivated to ensure that all students have access to quality education, particularly music education. Philip was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Lanham, MD. He at

tended the University of Georgia as a Music Education major (and a 4-year member of the UGA Redcoat Marching Band), graduating in December 2004. He moved to Alaska immediately after graduating, having fallen in love with Alaska on a vacation trip in 2002. Philip began teaching in the Anchorage School District in 2005, teaching for 8 years at Bartlett High School, and currently teaches at Begich Middle School. Philip began running dogs in 2007 with the gracious help of Kurt & Val Jokela, and then with Alan Peck & Barbra Trost. He then trained with Justin Savidis and ran the dogs of Snowhook Kennel, owned by Justin and Rebecca Savidis, in the Iditarod in 2015. Now that Philip's Iditarod is over, the work to promote public music education (and public education in general) is just beginning! Check back for updates on public education throughout the country as we fight to make sure our students and teachers are supported! (Posts on, or authored by, this page are representative only of Philip Walters and guest contributors. Posts do not reflect any of the organizations of which Philip is a part.)

I feel this.
07/22/2021

I feel this.

For real though! đŸ’¯

Absolutely.
04/09/2021

Absolutely.

Spoken from experience.

If you hate unions, you hate me.
03/15/2021

If you hate unions, you hate me.

If you actually want to empower the middle class, this is a great way to get things started!
03/09/2021

If you actually want to empower the middle class, this is a great way to get things started!

Nearly half of all nonunion workers say they want a union in their workplace. That’s 400% higher than the current percentage of workers represented by a union.1 Current law places too many obstacles in the way of workers trying to organize and gives employers too much power to interfere with worke...

There is no surprise here. Can we just NOT and say we did?!
02/26/2021

There is no surprise here. Can we just NOT and say we did?!

Exactly! Thoughts?

It’s that time of the year when people start asking me who I think would be good for the School Board. This year, in pa...
02/21/2021

It’s that time of the year when people start asking me who I think would be good for the School Board.

This year, in particular, there is a coalition of candidates looking to form a decidedly anti-public-education majority on the board so it is important to make sure we get the right folks on the board! Please consider voting for these candidates!

AEA is proud to support these great candidates for Mayor and for School Board.

02/07/2021

(Thanks to my friend Ash for posting this one)

From Bill Williamson, on Twitter

We need to reopen schools.

We need to reopen schools before more people realize that all the technology purchased with millions of taxpayer dollars to transform education doesn't really work.

We need to reopen schools because the school to prison pipeline won't fill itself.

We need to reopen schools because how else can affluent suburban families fully realize all the benefits of their heavily segregated enclaves without their children reaping the benefits of our inequitable educational system?

We need to reopen schools because pundits with a platform and young children are really tired.


We need to reopen schools because the College Board needs to push out some tests and boost those revenue numbers, otherwise people might realize that the tests aren't necessary.

We need to reopen schools so it will stop being obvious that many superintendents and principals have no idea how to use technology to educate.

We need to reopen schools so teachers can get back to the important work of spending their own money on supplies, including food, for their students - because the same people who clutch their pearls about the importance of education clutch their wallets when it's time to fund it.

We need to reopen schools so things can start to get back to normal, and the impacts of our decades long failure to support public education for all students is less visible.

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