Published: March 12, 2007

The Myth of the Great Teacher

As part of a new partnership, teachermagazine.org is publishing this regular column by members of the Teacher Leaders Network , a professional community of accomplished educators dedicated to sharing ideas and expanding the influence of teachers.

Edited by John Norton

In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times titled "Classroom Distinctions," Bronx history teacher Tom Moore discussed the portrayal of teachers in cinema and what he perceives as the disconnect between movie classrooms like those portrayed in the recent film Freedom Writers ...