Turner Movie Classics (501) was showing a number of movies about teachers yesterday--I guess to celebrate the beginning of another school year. I was able to watch a couple of them. One was the 1953 movie--Bright Road--about a dedicated African American teacher who taught a class of only African American students. In her classroom was a young boy who struggled in school but he was an incredible young man with many talents. The teacher saw this and encouraged him.
The second movie I watched was the 1945 movie The Corn Is Green which I had already seen a couple of times. It's a great movie about a teacher who makes incredible sacrificies for a student with tremendous potential.
Both of these movies inspire me to be a more dedicated and committed educator. That's what movies like these can do for us. Therefore, I encourage all of our Esperanza educators to watch movies such as these and/or read books about dedicated educators who can inspire them.
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