Sentences with phrase «heroic teachers»

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.

A documentary film called American Teacher, which premiered last fall, portrayed heroic teachers struggling to get by on paltry incomes.

In movies like Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds, one heroic teacher single - handedly transforms an entire school system's dysfunctions.

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While heroic teachers, coaches and students rushed to help, BSO deputies, according to other officers on the scene, crouched and took a defensive position and listened to the gunshots and screams.

The Carlston Family Foundation is looking to identify the next class of heroic teachers.

4:00 pm — TCM — Blackboard Jungle Glenn Ford is the teacher who takes on rowdy inner - city kids in one of the earlier «heroic teacher» films.

2:30 am (7th)-- TCM — Blackboard Jungle Glenn Ford is the teacher who takes on rowdy inner - city kids in one of the earlier «heroic teacher» films.

We don't talk about those feelings because we're supposed to be like those heroic teacher - as - savior figures that permeate popular narratives about our work.

Many of the techniques Lemov describes depend on a heroic teacher with the personality of a «Vegas» performer.

Yes, we might read stories of a heroic teacher, or a particular school beating the odds, but this is almost always followed by the caveat (often in the same piece or TV segment) that the success can't be replicated, that the heroism required super-human efforts, that the» conditions don't transfer.»

We can not depend upon a new class, program or heroic teachers like Jaime Escalante (remember Stand and Deliver) to support kids to succeed in spite of schools that were never designed to get most kids, to the standards that society demands today.

To sell their ideas, neoliberals promise that heroic teachers and «no - excuses» principals combined with competition, technology, and high - stakes student, teacher, and school evaluations, will «disrupt» sclerotic bureaucracies, rein in unions, and liberate oppressed impoverished urban communities from «failing» schools.

There are the stories of passionate and inspiring student survivors, like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, who have now become political activists for issues like gun control, and of heroic teachers and students who risked — and in some cases, gave — their lives to keep others out of harm's way.