TEACH: Teachers are Talking, Is the Nation Listening will have its New England premiere  on Thursday, October 13, 2011.  Five years in the making, TEACH, a feature length documentary, is a film by alumna and Boston Public Schools art teacher Yvonne Troxell Lamothe (TPP, MSAE) and her husband, director Robert Lamothe, that includes conversations about the art of teaching and learning by teachers themselves.

Yvonne and Robert Lamothe interviewed over 40 teachers from many school districts including Boston, Brooklyn, NY, Madison, WI, Key West, FL, North Conway, NH, Cambridge, MA, Newton, MA, Lincoln-Sudbury,MA, and others. The movie also includes legislative hearings; speeches by Bradley Whitford, Diane Ravitch, and others; debates between union and school officials; various public hearings about school closings; and various teacher rallies.

The filmmakers also traveled to Wisconsin to take part in the rallies and document the multitude of happenings there in the fight to protect public employee unions. Included in TEACH are interviews and many scenes from the protests in Wisconsin, including the rally of more than 100,000 people on February 26, 2011.

Location:
Boston Teachers Union Hall
180 Mt. Vernon Street, Dorchester, MA 0212

Program:
5:30 – 6:30 – Social Hour, Live Jazz, and Hors D’Oeuvres
6:30 – 8:00 – Screening of TEACH, Teachers are Talking, Is the Nation Listening
8:00 – 9:00 – Informal Discussions

Sponsored by:
·    Boston Teachers Union
·    AFT MA – American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts
·    Citizens for Public Schools
·    Fair Test
·    USW 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers Union
·    Eleanor Duckworth, Professor of Education,  Harvard University
·    Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Professor Emerita, Lesley University
(partial list)