Remember the Titans

A football team desegregating in 1971 Virginia becomes a story about what it takes to see past a first impression. I bring this film into class for its questions about leadership, trust, and building a community out of people who did not choose one another — the kind of work students recognize from their own year together.

Watercolor of teenage football players walking together toward a field at dusk, arms over shoulders, evoking a team becoming a community.

Building Classroom Community with Remember the Titans

Chiara • 2026-02-11

A class can read well and still not know how to be together. Here’s the film I return to when a group needs to become a team — Remember the Titans — and the reflection activity that grows out of it, for the slow work of helping students actually see one another.

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