This impression is also fostered by ad campaigns featuring teachers buying school supplies out of their own pockets and movie portraits of heroic teachers believing in students, even as their parents have abandoned them. (educationnext.org)
A documentary film called American Teacher, which premiered last fall, portrayed heroic teachers struggling to get by on paltry incomes. (educationnext.org)
In movies like Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds, one heroic teacher single - handedly transforms an entire school system's dysfunctions. (edutopia.org)