UCSD’s TeacherTECH and Microsoft Proudly Present a Free Screening of “American Teacher”, Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

The San Diego education community, including teachers, administrators, parents and interested community members are invited to attend a private screening of the new documentary film, American Teacher, presented by UCSD’s TeacherTECH program and Microsoft Corporation. 

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
5:00pm- 7:00pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Auditorium 
University of California, San Diego

Screening of American Teacher

The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s TeacherTECH program, at the University of California, San Diego, and Microsoft are proud to present this community screening of the new film, American Teacher.

“A film about education that gets it entirely right!”- raves the The Washington Post

This documentary film is based on the 2005 New York Times bestselling book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers by journalist and teacher Daniel Moulthrop, co-founder of the 826 National writing programs Nínive Calegari, and writer Dave Eggers. The film is produced by Calegari and Eggers, produced and directed by Academy-Award winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth, and narrated by Matt Damon.

Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system—the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across the country. This feature-length documentary brings together educational experts, student interviews, and a year of documenting the day-to-day lives and sacrifices of public school teachers.

American Teacher is a character-driven film that explores the real and imminent crisis in our educational system through humor, irony, and the energy of the teachers who fill the screen. Since 2008, the film’s creators have closely followed the stories of these four teachers living and working in disparate urban and rural areas across the country. The film's narrative balances the personal stories of each character with a mixture of interviews and animated facts and statistics by Stefan Nadelman, each highlighting the big sacrifices made by our nation’s teachers, and how these demanding costs force many of our greatest teachers out of the profession.

American Teacher has participated in the San Francisco International Film Festival, the San Antonio Film Festival, the Philadelphia International Film Festival, the New Orleans Film, the United Nations Association Film Festival, the Napa Valley Film Festival, and most recently, the Denver Film Festival. American Teacher was awarded silver in the documentary category of the 34th Annual Philadelphia International Film Festival.

For more information on the film, please visit http://www.theteachersalaryproject.org/index.php.

Please join us for an interesting and thought provoking evening of film and discussion led by UCSD and Microsoft representatives.

Admission is free. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or 

amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space. Please feel free to invited your colleagues, your friends, your family and your neighbors as this is a community event and everyone is welcome.

 For information, please visit our TeacherTECH site at http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech or visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/teachertech.