Denver Bound/Tropes

Tropes A-D

 * Adults Are Useless:
 * Benevolent Boss
 * Maureen
 * Cool Teacher
 * Aidan's students like him because he finds a way to make learning fun for them.
 * By the 3rd season, Alyssa's students consider her to be a cool teacher.
 * Deadpan Snarker:
 * Alyssa
 * Wesley (without a doubt)
 * Cherie
 * Maureen
 * Bernadette
 * Chloe
 * Seth
 * Aidan

Tropes E-I

 * Hot Teacher:
 * Some of the female staff members (including Alyssa) find Aidan to be very attractive.
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming:
 * Just like on "Our Lives", every episode's title is taken from a line or dialogue spoken by a character in the episode.

Tropes J-M

 * Most Writers Are Adults: Averted.

Tropes R-V

 * Rape as Backstory:
 * Chloe was physically and sexually abused by her mother's ex-boyfriend.
 * Faith revealed to Chloe that she was molested by a friend's father at a sleepover when she was in the 6th grade.
 * School of No Studying: Averted.
 * Soapbox Sadie:
 * Faith
 * Teens Are Short: Averted.
 * TV Teen: Averted.
 * Two-Teacher School: Averted.

Tropes W-Z

 * Wide-Eyed Idealist:
 * Alyssa (when she begins her student teaching at Thomas Wexler School).