Monday, May 2, 2011

Here’s to the Teachers! :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

Here’s to the Teachers! :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
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Here’s to the Teachers!

by Anthony Cody

We celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week with the release of a video we created to honor teachers.

It has been almost two months since I reported on a project we started, to create a series of short videos that would celebrate teachers, students, parents and public schools, and encourage viewers to stand together for them at the Save Our Schools March this summer in Washington, DC.

We got a great response from many of you, who sent in photographs and Flickr feeds. Tom and Amy Valens, the talented film makers who created the movie August to June, have been hard at work, drawing on the material that was contributed, and a variety of video sources as well. The very first of the four videos is now ready, and we present it here (click link to view video):

Here\’s to the Teachers! Save Our Schools March and National Days of Action

And here is the script:

Here’s to the teachers.
The ones who taught us to d