
"After the show got canceled, I spent the rest of the year becoming the teacher my students deserved. "Once, I caught students cheating by reviewing the film," he told the crowd with a wink.

Which is how camera crews wound up following Danza around the halls of Northeast High School during his first semester. Lastly, he mentioned his plans to a reality television producer - and 20 minutes later, the A&E Network expressed interest in creating a show around his experience. Then he reached out to Teach for America for help getting placed with a school. So Danza told his friends of his intentions to try his hand at education in hopes that they would hold him accountable. "I was closing in on my 60th birthday and had just lost what I thought was my dream job." "Arthur Miller said, 'Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets,'" he said, quoting the late American playwright. John's School got was an entertaining, Hollywood-type performance.ĭanza began his speech by explaining the motivation behind his teaching stint. And last week, what audience members at St. Renu Khator, President of the University of Houston, and Scott McClelland, President of H-E-B, to deliver the event's keynote address, 2020's luncheon co-chairs Kelli Kickerillo and Todd Forester, Sarah and Richard Punches, and Vicky and Gordon Wight went the Hollywood route. After two years of tapping heavy-hitting locals such as Dr.
