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Teaching Mrs. Tingle
"...use a few hours back at USC film school. Teaching Mrs. Tingle, which has been plagued with undeserved problems..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rebecca Mieliwocki: Making Teaching Joyous
The National Teacher of the Year becomes an accidental spokesperson
"...long to get it.' It turned out to be teaching." She launched into the secondary certification process and, she..."

March 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Teaching the Teacher
Rosemary Vines has been shaking her booty with her three-year-old students at St. George’s Episcopal for 30 years.
"...to enjoy myself," she says of her approach to teaching. "It helps the job; I'm not staid. We put..."

June 23, 2000 Features Feature by David Garza

Teaching Themselves
The filmmakers, cast, and crew of Chalk learned valuable lessons with little in the way of a plan or a budget
"..."Mike was teaching, and he kept saying, 'I have to make a..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Austin Already Benefits From Teaching Hospitals
"...who incorrectly states Austin is not served by a teaching hospital. In addition to hosting students from UT's nursing..."

Sept. 22, 2004 Postmarks

UT Teaching Assistants Fired Over Letter Supporting Palestinian Students
Faculty lend their support, citing censorship concerns
"...Just before Thanksgiving break, two UT-Austin teaching assistants, Parham Daghighi and Callie Kennedy, were approached by..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

The ACC Drama Department Enters Teaching in the Coronavirus Tragedy
For Marcus McQuirter and the ACC drama department, even in the pandemic it's on with the show
"...These days, a lot of people teaching theatre in higher ed feel like that falling tree..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Robert Faires

What's Wrong With Teaching Intelligent Design and Evolution?
"...evolution? There's no conflict of interest at all in teaching the two, since one, ID, addresses the origins of..."

Oct. 18, 2005 Postmarks

Bill Would Ban Teaching DEI Topics in Many College Classrooms
Proposal targets lessons on systemic racism
"...“Getting into the classroom curriculum and prohibiting instructors from teaching their expertise; how does that make any economic or..."

May 9, 2025 News Feature by Lucciana Choueiry

Faster Than Sound: Unpacking Harry Styles' Austin Run With the Professor Teaching a Class on Him
Texas State's Dr. Louie Dean Valencia offers a crash course in the Harry-verse
"...out, seeing the chatter online. It's official, official. I'm teaching the world's first ever university course on the work..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Teaching Intimacy
The Miró Quartet reveals the key to developing a great chamber music ensemble
"...and more after – how long have we been teaching? Eleven years? – that you can really feel in..."

May 7, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Self-Described Racist Loses Pflugerville Teaching Job After Video Goes Viral
PfISD teacher pfools around, pfinds out

Nov. 18, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Face-to-Face Teaching Resumes at AISD Even as COVID-19 Cases Mount
It's back-to-school week (take 3)

Nov. 6, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

AISD, Union Still at Odds Over In-Person Teaching
Employees look for creative solutions, but have yet to see any

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Teaching Truthiness
Activists, lawmakers call on State Board of Education to reject racist Mexican-American textbook

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Teaching You the Fear
Extraterrestrial

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Covert Experiment Shows Faults of Teaching for Tests

Feb. 12, 2010 Postmarks

A Traveler's Needs
Isabelle Huppert stars as an eccentric French tutor in Hong Sang-soo's latest
"...and is trying to piece a living together by teaching French through a technique of her own devising. Her..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Comforts of Home Cooking
Two Austin schools are teaching the old-fashioned way.
"...new cooking school. Fleming brought years of catering and teaching experience to the project, and the two women collaborated..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Getting Restless Hearts on Their Feet
Stagers help Ballet Austin dance Balanchine and Wheeldon
"...Just before teaching company class at the Royal Danish Ballet, Boos was..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Arts Post by Sofia Tafich

2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A
Breaion King arrest doc heads up the Oscar short list
"...June 15, 2015. Breaion King heads to her teaching job, and ends up being thrown around by an..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Breadwinner
A young girl tries to provide for her family in Afghanistan
"...imprisoned by the Taliban for possessing “forbidden” books and teaching women to read. Dressed in her dead brother’s old..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Risk
Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
"...doesn’t hide her admiration for Assange’s ideals and for teaching her things about secrecy she didn’t know she needed..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
The former teen heartthrob turned evangelical entrepreneur shows how to put the faith back into Christmas.
"...movie, Saving Christmas is not good. But as a teaching aid for congregants about having their fruitcake and eating..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Words and Pictures
The story is rather creaky, but who cares when the actors Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche are so sublime together?
"...of her trade, and, glumly, latches on to this teaching job...."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the House
A pleasurably heady thriller from French auteur François Ozon.
"...Middle-aged Germain (Luchini) is a failed novelist teaching Flaubert to bored, barely literate teenagers – “barbarians,” as..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Monsieur Lazhar
In a Montreal classroom, adolescent students and their Algerian substitute teacher help one another cope with grief. The film was an Oscar nominee.
"...raises no questions, even if some of Monsieur Lazhar’s teaching methods do. When the topic comes up, he allows..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mighty Macs
This film tells the story of rookie basketball coach and future Hall of Famer Cathy Rush who led the women of Immaculata College to three consecutive national championships from 1972 to 1974.
"...is able to translate that challenge to her students, teaching lessons in self-confidence, self-discipline, and teamwork along with dribbling..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Buck
The real-life "horse whisperer," Dan "Buck" Brannaman, is the subject of this documentary that reveals how he derived his hard-won knowledge.
"...in an RV, sometimes with his wife or daughter, teaching people how to handle their four-legged charges with the..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hesher
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Hesher, the nihilistic antidote to a downbeat family in this drama that raises its middle finger toward nothing in particular.
"...stealing cable TV (and porn) from the poles outside, teaching Granny to smoke her medicinal marijuana from a bong,..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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