Sentences with phrase «as a high school teacher who»

NBC's new drama «Rise» stars Rosie Perez as a high school teacher who struggles with being pushed aside when another teacher, played by Josh Radnor, makes a play for her job as head of the theater department.

Election: Special Edition (Blu - ray) Details: 1999, The Criterion Collection Rated: R, language, sexual content, sex - related dialogue, drug use The lowdown: Reese Witherspoon plays perky, overachiever and super-ambitious Tracy Flick in this comedy, which costars Matthew Broderick as the high school teacher who can't stand Tracy's bubbly and perky personality.

The show starred Josh Radnor, continuing his trend of dramatic work, as a high school teacher who attempts to revitalize his down - trodden town by bringing a spark of life to the school's drama department.

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The elder Wojcicki is hardly a technologist; she's a longtime Palo Alto high school journalism teacher who wired her three daughters (a brood that also includes YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki) with what Anne describes as irrational optimism.

1) Van Gaal is a qualified gymnastics teacher, who had a playing career as a midfielder from 1972 - 1987 while supplementing his income coaching high - school gymnastics teams.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

As a new teacher who strived to bring a love of learning to my high school students, I became a member of the Challenge Success Advisory Board.

As more schools implement universal lunch and breakfast, cafeterias are seeing participation rates shoot sky - high, while teachers report students who are more ready to learn, and exhibiting fewer behavior problems.

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

He was an ubiquitous presence in the school,» said Darlene Larson, an associate superintendent for human resources at District 214 who was hired by Miller as an English teacher at Buffalo Grove High when it opened.

Having something go wrong while a child is at home alone is a parent's worst nightmare, said Pam Guth, a Glendale Heights junior high school teacher who is educating youngsters in «Home Alone Safety» as part of the Kids On Campus program at the College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn.

RIP Sandra Townes, a former English teacher at Corocoran High School who went on to become the first black woman appointed as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.

The honorees, DeWitt Middle School technology teacher David Buchner and Ithaca High School math teacher Steve Weissburg, were recognized as teachers who:

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

Hasidic Satmar leaders in Brooklyn issued a decree proclaiming that women should no longer pursue special - education degrees after high school and that those who refused to obey would be denied positions as teachers.

The Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete of the Week Program provides coaches, teachers, administrators and school counselors in public schools in the five boroughs of New York City with the opportunity to nominate a high school senior who otherwise meets the eligibility criteria to be named as a Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete.

He does addition and subtraction and he's on a level higher than his class,» said Davis, who serves as the parent teacher association president at the co-located District 75 school that serves students with special needs.

«It was heartbreaking to see working - class people lose essential things,» said McPartlan, a Wantagh High School art teacher, who teared up as she watched the film.

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

Students, who were placed in Bongo Senior High School, were to pay the said money as a Parent Teacher Association levy and other items before they would be issued admission...

Elia — who started her career as a social studies teacher at Sweet Home High School — has been feeling the public pressure to remove Paladino.

Formed as a public / private partnership, Teachers Who Code will use the Girls Who Code model to equip New York City public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tTeachers Who Code will use the Girls Who Code model to equip New York City public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tteachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tomorrow.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome ProjecAs a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

Red Eagle's interest in science started to form in high school, thanks to Ms. O'Donnell, who Red Eagle describes as «a great chemistry teacher.»

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

«It's disappointing to see so few people» at the rally, said John Cosgrove, a retired high school science teacher who traveled from Easton, Pennsylvania, to attend, as he did last year.

Yeah, so I actually as a young person, I had a really interesting opportunity, went to public schools; and my high school German teacher, who was all of 24 years old at that time, brought a group of his university friends for a camping trip in Russia, and one person canceled, so they had an extra slot.

Jennifer Liddy, who worked as an English teacher at high school in Asahimura (Niigata.

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An introvert, indifferent woman joins a high school as a student teacher, under supervision of a shameless, nymphomaniac man who is a year young.

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

Only Nick Nolte, as Tom Wingo, the psychologically blocked Southern high school teacher who is Conroy's protagonist, transcends the circumstances to deliver a performance of skill and commanding sympathy.

In addition to Sands, who is typically great, we also have John Carpenter regular Peter Jason as a delightfully stereotypical town football coach / high school gym teacher, The cherry on top, however, is John Goodman.

The show follows members of a high school drama troupe as they prepare to put on the controversial musical Spring Awakening, under the tutelage of an inexperienced yet passionate teacher (Josh Radnor) who's basically stolen the department out from under its longtime chair (Rosie Perez).

Election, based on the book by Tom Perrotta, casts Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a high school teacher who finds himself at the center of a nationwide scandal after rigging an election in favor of a likeable jock (Chris Klein) over a relentless overachiever (Reese Witherspoon).

Director Kris Swanberg's story is about a high school teacher (Smulders) who becomes pregnant and bonds with one of her students, an African - American girl with dreams of going to college and who is just - as - surprisingly knocked - up.

The nine - hour limited event series stars James Franco as a high - school history teacher who travels back in time to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Who: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler and Greg Germann What: A high school biology teacher moonlights as an MMA fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent the school's music program from being axed.

Ellie opened up to reporters about what it was like having Jon Hamm (who guest starred on the Netflix series) as her high school drama teacher.

Coogan is Dana Marschz, a failed actor with uncertain rollerblading skills and daddy issues who has found refuge as a drama teacher in a Tuscon Arizona high school.

So my new year's wish is that for X, actors substitute Greta Gerwig, who made sure, in Lady Bird, that even characters as peripheral to the action as Stephen McKinley Henderson's mournful high school drama teacher felt like full human beings who could have wandered in from, or off to, their own movies.

The previously announced recurring cast members include: Christian Slater as Elliot Decker, the school crossing guard and self - proclaimed «Safety Czar» of Jefferson G. County, who has made it his mission to protect the world from Milo; Vanessa Williams as Zack's mom Eileen Underwood; Sarah Chalke as science teacher Miss Murawski; Jemaine Clement as Dr. Zone, a popular television show character who travels through time with his trusty sidekick Time Ape; Chrissie Fit as Amanda Lopez, an overachieving perfectionist in Milo's class; Vincent Martella as Bradley Nicholson, Milo's envious and pessimistic classmate; Diedrich Bader as Milo's dad Martin Murphy; Pamela Adlon as Milo's mom Brigette Murphy; Kate Micucci as Milo's sister Sara Murphy; Mackenzie Phillips as Principal Elizabeth Milder; Dee Bradley Baker as Milo's dog Diogee; Brett Dalton as high - level time travel agent Brick; Gregory Michael Cipes as classmate Mort Schaeffer; Sophie Winkleman as Dr. Zone's sidekick Time Ape; Michael Culross as high school teacher Kyle Drako; and Kevin Michael Richardson as Coach Nolan Mitchell.

The young Norwegian auteur was able to marshal Jesse Eisenberg, as young sociology professor Jonah Reed, Gabriel Byrne as his father Gene, a high school teacher and failed actor living in suburban New York, and Isabelle Huppert as his mother, a self - righteous war photographer named, umm, Isabelle Joubert, who dies in a car crash.

The tremendously gifted Lucy Punch (who you might know from such films as Hot Fuzz and Dinner for Schmucks) costars in Bad Teacher as the painfully perky and perfectionistic Jr. high school teacher, Amy SqTeacher as the painfully perky and perfectionistic Jr. high school teacher, Amy Sqteacher, Amy Squirrel.

Joel Edgerton plays Brendan, a former UFC fighter who's struggling to make ends meet as a high - school physics teacher.

Julianne Moore (Game Change, Crazy Stupid Love) stars as Kingston, PA, high school English teacher Linda Sinclair, an introverted «spinster» who lives so much in the fictional tales of others that she barely has a life of her own.

Tribeca Films has debuted the official trailer for Detachment, starring Adrien Brody as a substitute teacher who observes and chronicles three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students.

Executive produced by King and J.J. Abrams, the eight - part event series stars James Franco as high school English teacher Jake Epping, who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Television, the nine - hour miniseries stars James Franco as Jake Epping, a divorced high - school English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that takes him to 1958, where he sets out to prevent the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President Kennedy.