teacher-student relationship

Single mother and college professor Gina Paletta finds her attempts to build a safe, protected life for her two sons threatened when two of her students post salacious photographs of her on the Internet and are linked to a series of violent murders.

Uses real-life examples from an inner-city classroom to demonstrate the importance of caring, trusting relationships between teachers and students in a child's social and ethical development.

Explains the importance of student engagement in the classroom and presents strategies for connecting, motivating, and challenging students.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

Jaime Escalante, an East LA math teacher, motivates his students to strive and succeed in the classroom and in life.

When he learns that his former college professor is dying, Mitch, a busy sports journalist, makes time to visit him and finds his own outlook on life changed by his conversations with the dying teacher.

Hina's love for her secretive homeroom teacher, Shiro, grows, but the traumas of her past--numerous kidnappings by those after her wealthy father's money--catch up to her and threaten their special friendship.

When his father joins other parents in demonstrating against a teacher who is HIV-positive, Kevin is torn between his loyalty to his father whom he has always considered a hero and his admiration for his favorite sixth grade teacher.

Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkin's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts.

Andy Crockett, who feels like his brother got all the intelligence and looks, doesn't fit in with the athletes, goth kids, or other misfits, but he does admire Mr. Retzlaff, who teaches a tenth grade class on WWII, Hitler, and the Holocaust, and he learns just what it may take to ace the class and impress his teacher.