What does teacher advocacy look like? Why should teachers be educational advocates?

What does teacher advocacy look like? Why should teachers be educational advocates?  Read How Do You Know If You’re a Teacher Leader? by Precious Crabtree and How to Become a Teacher Advocate by Jessica Cuthbertson. Write a blog entry that explores why/how/whether or not young teachers

In Jessica Cuthbertson's "How to Become a Teacher Advocate," she states "The social and mass media chatter is all too quick to point out flaws in our system but often falls short on highlighting teacher-created solutions and successes." 
I think this reminds us that we have to pride ourselves as teachers on our solutions and successes.  We also have to work to redefine the strengths and powerful characteristics of teachers, own them and work to change how teachers are profiled in the media.  After reading these blogs, I realized that not only are we urged to work as advocates as teachers to share student's voices and needs, but also we are urged to advocate for the teaching profession.  

In our time and age, it is even more important for us to redefine what and how teachers are the center of education, and that they are not a voiceless body, but are working with the youth and students themselves, and are the key to knowing where they are coming from, what they need, what they are attracted to, how they communicate and understand best, and who they are as individuals and people.