William Ayers is an educator, writer and social justice crusader. He and Exeric Award winning cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner have created a comic book version of his 1993 book, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, now titled To Teach: the journey, in comics.store.tcpress.com/0807739855.shtml

In this innovative publication, Ayers and Tanner advocate for a form of education that downplays standards testing and focuses on the student as a three-dimensional human being, supported by a curriculum that plays to the students' strengths and interests.

Williams Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner visited Carnegie in spring 2010 as part of the Carnegie Chats series. They offered a vision of a collaborative classroom in which critical thought and alternative sources of knowledge are advocated and the ultimate goal is good citizenship in the form of an active and thoughtful individual.