Sentences with phrase «cast as a school teacher»

Sridevi was cast as a school teacher and a mother bent on avenging the rape of her teenage step daughter by some men, including one of her mates.

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Supporting cast from Rob Riggle as the high school gym teacher, Dave Franco as the «cool kid» for 2012, Brie Larson as a high schooler Schmidt becomes smitten with, Nick Offerman as their deputy chief all have a hand in making the film that much funnier.

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).

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.

Hannah Fidell first caught our attention with her unnerving second feature, «A Teacher,» which cast her frequent star Lindsay Burdge (who also appears in «The Long Dumb Road») as a high school teacher driven mad by her affair with a male sTeacher,» which cast her frequent star Lindsay Burdge (who also appears in «The Long Dumb Road») as a high school teacher driven mad by her affair with a male steacher driven mad by her affair with a male student.

Emma Thompson and Olivia Williams lead a stellar supporting cast as, respectively, the school's brutally frank headmistress and a teacher whose icy exterior masks a core of deep idealism.

Phoebe in Wonderland (PG - 13 for mature themes and brief profanity) Elle Fanning stars in this modern fairy tale about a young girl with Tourette's Syndrome who finds a constructive way to channel her destructive, obsessive - compulsive urges with the help of a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) who casts her in a school production as Alice in Wonderland.

The ensemble cast can feel stereotyped, but the absurd ambience will seem spot on to anyone who's walked high school halls as a teen or a teacher.

Jindal casts himself as a «policy wonk» and reformer, and his agenda for education features several ideas unfathomable in previous administrations: teacher pay for performance, school vouchers, and tax credits for private school tuition.

Arbitrarily impose cut scores on those exams that cast students, teachers and schools as failing, as was done by NYS Education Commissioner John King and Regent Meryl Tisch.

Republicans also repeatedly dismissed their Democratic critics as pawns of teachers unions, casting them as implicit supporters of allowing failing schools to remain that way.

The film, starring Oscar nominee Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal, reportedly portrays the struggle of a teacher and a parent who work to transform a low - performing Pennsylvania school, despite resistance from the local union — cast as the enemy of reform.

The contest was cast as a clash over «education reform,» and the candidates, both Democrats, indeed presented strong contrasts, with Torlakson being supportive of public schools and classroom teachers and Tuck advocating the need to «disrupt» education with more charter schools and stricter, managerial oversight of educators and school performance.

Sharon posts regularly to the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, as well as Teacher Cast and her own blog She is excited to be a co-founder and moderator of #edtechat and is part of the BAM100.

HONIG: Yes, central office staff have had a lot to manage, trying to navigate federal and state requirements that were not good for teachers or school leaders, and they've often been cast as the bad guy.

Our cast of characters has expanded to include the representative for the white schools and white teachers, whom we'll arbitrarily name 1950s Randi Weingarten, as well as ageless Al Sharpton as himself.