Regan, a free-spirited teacher who is well loved by her students, is tormented by cliquish colleagues who bad-mouth her and thwart her plans to form a gay-straight alliance.
This intelligent, sensitive drama casts her as Nathalie, a spirited philosophy teacher, daughter, mother and wife – roles that all become unstable before the summer's up, testing her long-held principles.
With strong performances from all the leads, including Zooey Deschanel as a spirited music teacher and little Bailey Madison as Jesse's youngest sister, May Belle, "Bridge to Terabithia" is able to handle adult topics with nuance and sensitivity.
Whether or not Casim Khan Mr. Yaqubb), a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in Glasgow with his devoutly Moslem family, and Roison Hanlon (Ms. Birthistle), a spirited Scottish teacher in a Catholic school remain together, the movie leaves you with nagging worries about the future of any intercultural relationship once the passion cools.
25), by the German director Maren Ade, in which a free-spirited music teacher (Peter Simonischek) subjects his daughter (Sandra Hüller), an ambitious young executive, to practical jokes in front of her colleagues.
She's having a hoot... and even more so when she meets Carole (Cécile de France), a beautiful, blonde, free-spirited Spanish teacher, who is, unbeknownst to Delphine, hetero-inflexible.
The Girl was recently accepted into the college of her choice (thank you, Universe!) We were having a spirited discussion about teachers we remember, and bang!
Providing such an experience to teachers can open spirited discussions of methodologies and motivate the study of more cognitively appropriate pedagogies and activities.
In a question-and-answer session after his remarks, he had a spirited exchange with a Head Start teacher about the financing and monitoring of that program.
Perhaps Mr. Bloomberg did not realize it in the moment, but this is not just a mean-spirited and poorly timed attack on teachers.
