Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - Fear of Black Consciousness
Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leah Juelke - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Leah Juelke is an teacher at Fargo South High School, North Dakota, in one of the largest English Language high school programs in her state. As a resettlement city, the majority of her students are refugees, who come from camps and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kimberly Eckert - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - West Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Kimberly Eckert serves as the Director of Educator Development at the Louisiana Department of Education while still teaching Educators Rising in West Baton Rouge Schools. She holds a BA in social work, an MEd in Special Education, and is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jared Scherz - Teacher Stress
Dr. Scherz is a clinical psychologist, author, and educational consultant, working with educators for over twenty years. He earned his Master's in Education from Penn State University and went on to be an elementary school guidance...
Red Rock Films
Who was Nannie Helen Burroughs?
How one woman's intelligence and dedication brought education to thousands of those who needed it the most.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
William Doyle - What Finland Taught Me
William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar, a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, a Scholar in Residence and Lecturer on Media and Education at the University of Eastern Finland, and an award-winning, bestselling author and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sean Frederick Forbes "An Oracle Remembering Providencia's Formation"
Born in Heidelberg, Germany, and raised in Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York City, Sean Frederick Forbes is the author of Providencia (2013). Sean identifies as Afro-Latino and connects to the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Recent poems...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Matthew Faulkner - Teachers Make a Difference - Gary Wang, MD, PhD
Matt Faulkner is the co-author of Most Likely to Survive (2013) and the subject of the documentary film, Recovery (2016), both of which detail the events surrounding his unexpected recovery from the severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David L. Green - Teachers Make a Difference - Yvonne Hendricks
David L. Green is an Associate Professor of Materials Science, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received his B.S. from Boston University, an M.S. from the University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. from...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Noriko Matsubara - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Japan
Noriko Matsubara is the owner and an English teacher of the small private school in Japan, '英語教室 'notogawa SKY', in Higashiomi-shi, Shiga, Japan. She wants her students to communicate with, and learn about, children in other countries....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Johnny E. Williams - Teachers Make a Difference
Johnny E. Williams is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi 2003) and Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Books 2016). The former book examines the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Blumengarten - Students Matter
Jerry Blumengarten taught for 32 years in the New York City school system. Even though he was a licensed Social Studies teacher, he taught most subjects (Language Arts, Science, Math, Computers…) for grades 6-9. He wrote curriculum for...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pak Tee Ng - Singapore Teach Less, Learn More
Dr. Pak Tee Ng is Associate Dean, Leadership Learning and the Head of Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He teaches in programs for...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yaacov Hecht - Democratic Education
Yaacov Hecht is an internationally distinguished leader and visionary in democratic education, learning theory, and societal change. In 1987, Hecht founded the Democratic School in Hadera, Israel, the first school in the world to call...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nikhil Goyal - Schools on Trial
Nikhil Goyal is the author of the new book Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice (Random House).
NASA
The Invisible Network: 06. Next-Gen | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
CubeSats are small satellites, some weighing as little as 3 pounds. They provide opportunities for small-scale research in space, and an avenue for young scientists — some as young as middle school-aged — to see their curiosity take...
Makematic
Being Schooled
The conditioning of Girls often begins in School - and exposes much of the discrimination that girls face. But it’s also a place where girls talk back and demand to be heard.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Orlando Patterson - Understanding Black Youth
Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of the West Indies, his alma mater, and the London School of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat Farenga - Unschooling - AERO Conference 2015
Patrick Farenga worked closely with the author and teacher John Holt for four years, until Holt’s death in 1985. He is the President of Holt Associates Inc. and was the Publisher of Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Empowering Innovation: The Impact of Genius Hour in Education
Christopher Weiss has been the Principal of Riverside School in Greenwich, CT since 2012. This video showcases the implementation of a Genius Hour program in a K-5 school, where students are given dedicated time to work on innovative...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Chinma Uche - Why Teach Computer Science
Chinma Uche is a Math and Computer Science (CS) teacher at the Academy of Aerospace and Engineering (AAE) and the Greater Hartford Academy of Math and Science (GHAMAS). She is the 2015 CREAC Teacher of the Year. She has been at GHAMAS...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ayla Gavins - Mission Hill School
Ayla Gavins is the principal of the Mission Hill K-8 School in Boston’s Mission Hill district. Originally from a small town near the Pittsburgh area, Ayla began her education career in the Wayland (MA) Public Schools system, moving on to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Peter Gottschalk - Teachers Make a Difference - Theo Von Laue
Conflict between Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific traditions, and how antagonism shapes cultural and political debate – fueling Islamophobia and other discrimination – form the basis of Peter Gottschalk’s work. As well as...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David L. Green - Researching Our Family History
David L. Green is an Associate Professor of Materials Science, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received his B.S. from Boston University, an M.S. from the University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. from...