Teach the Teachers

About Teach the Teachers

Information on the 2025 Teach the Teachers program will be posted in late February.

Teach the Teachers is open to any middle or high school instructor within the Durham Public School system. 

Since 2011, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has run the enormously successful free documentary literacy program Teach the Teachers, which allows six Durham educators to attend the festival free of charge. These education professionals watch and discuss films, learn to use documentary to facilitate a deeper understanding of curriculum, and apply the principles set forth in John Golden’s book Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts (National Council of Teachers of English, 2006).

Each teacher receives educational credit for completed work, and the cost of their substitutes is provided by Full Frame to place as little financial burden on the schools as possible.

For questions, please contact us at fullframeinfo@duke.edu