June 13, 2006
9:00 p.m.
WXXI

Three years in the making, a documentary film featuring Warner doctoral student Lynn Astarita Gatto, an award-winning teacher at School 28 in Rochester, is set to air on WXXI on Tuesday, June 13, at 9 p.m. The film, which is produced and co-written by Joanne Larson, associate professor and chair of the teaching and curriculum program, in collaboration with filmmaker David Smith, is a narrative-driven investigation of Gatto’s classroom and teaching practices.

A Life Outside features Gatto, Rochester’s own New York State Teacher of the Year, as she gives a guided tour of a semester in her fourth-grade urban students’ lives. Informed by the latest educational theories she has been learning (and teaching) at the University of Rochester, Gatto’s classroom practices are definitely out of the box—most of the times her class isn’t even in a classroom. A Life Outside follows Gatto and her kids as they traverse the state—and the country—in search of what she considers to be a quality education.

A campus screening will be held this summer. More information will be available on the Warner Web site.

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