{"id":6967,"date":"2011-05-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2023-08-04T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:32:51","slug":"nominate-your-best-teacher-ever","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/nominate-your-best-teacher-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever Have a Teacher Who Changed Your Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers &#8212; often overworked, frequently underappreciated, sometimes demonized, usually meagerly compensated. But all of us have had teachers who helped us grow up and make sense of the world, and to find our place in it.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week (but really all year long) we want educators to get the props (and resources) they deserve. Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/itvs.org\/educators\">Community Classroom<\/a> do that by giving teachers free stuff: standards-aligned lesson plans, fabulous independent film content (often using <em>Independent Lens<\/em> films), innovative games, discussion guides, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us have a teacher who stands out in our memory as the one who really sparked our passion for learning or for a specific subject, or encouraged us at a key point in our academic lives. Or perhaps you work with a teacher who inspires his or her students in an exceptional way.<\/p>\n<p>We at <em>Independent Lens<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/itvs.org\/\">ITVS<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/itvs.org\/educators\/collections\">Community Classroom<\/a> want to celebrate those life-changing teachers. Send us the name of that teacher in your life, along with the school, the year, the city or town, and what you remember about that teacher that made you nominate him or her as your <strong>Best. 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