An apathetic elementary school teacher learns the true meaning of her role when she and her student become victims of a violent pair of intruders.

After one of her young low-income students shows up to class disheveled, a female teacher from Chicago makes it her mission to create a strong bond with the girl in hopes it will prevent her from dropping out of school.

A teacher finds herself entangled in the life of a mesmerising student, only to learn that everything he told her about himself was a lie.

A retired teacher looks back on her teaching career. She focuses on one incident in which a troubled child killed a school pet and wonders if she made the right choice in turning the child in to her parents.

A teacher reminisces about all his wonderful students of the Narrative Studies courses he has taught around the world before his career comes to an end.

After taking sudden interest in one of his students, a disgruntled New York public school teacher realizes his assumptions about the apathy of his class are completely wrong.

A creative writing teacher sits through a conference with one his favorite students. He takes us on a journey through the characters in the story, and in his life.

A young, optimist white teacher in New York takes a job at an all-Black school, determined to break through to his students and properly teach them, despite being stuck in a school system that has continually failed them.

A TV critic begins to have trouble telling the difference between her own, real life, and the lives of the characters on television.

A teacher at a private school in 1970s New York begins to see a psychoanalyst several times a week because he struggles with awkwardness and timidity in social settings. The analyst encourages the man to pursue a wealthy widow whose children attend his school.