Mike Stryer

Mike Stryer is California senior executive director at Teach Plus. Previously, Stryer taught social studies at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles for eight years, where he served as the school’s lead teacher and as the school's union chapter chair for United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). During that time he co-founded NewTLA, a political reform caucus in the union that was comprised primarily of “new majority” teachers within UTLA’s governing body. Before teaching, Mike worked in international business, heading international divisions of several U.S. consumer products companies, including Applause and Variflex. He has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in political science, a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University and a master's degree in education from Pepperdine University.

Posts By Mike Stryer

Teaching

We Need More Democrats to Take a Stance on Teacher Quality and Stand Up for Students

With the focus on last week’s reversal of Vergara v. California, it’s easy to miss the profoundly important changes happening largely below the radar. While the decision has been generally...

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