Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leslie Zebrowitz - Teachers Make a Difference - Charles A. Kiesler
Leslie Zebrowitz (PhD, Yale University) is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations and Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University. Trained as a social psychologist, she has recently received advanced training in social...
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Baruch Krauss - Teachers Make a Difference - Gary Fleisher and Berry Brazelton
Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is an international expert on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological...
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José Luis Vilson - This is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master's degree in...
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Sónia Moreira - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Portugal
At the age of seven, Sonia was already helping her teacher at school and teaching other girls in the street where she lived. Her vocation was again reinforced in adolescence, when she successfully mentored a classmate from South Africa,...
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Erin Klein - Giving the Classroom Back to Kids #BLC15
Erin Klein is an award winning educator, national keynote speaker, author, and mother who has been twice selected to serve on the Scholastic, Inc. Top Teaching Team based in New York. Her recent publication, Amazing Grades, was a...
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Angela Duckworth - Character Lab
Angela Duckworth is the Founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development. She is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the...
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Stephen Wolfram - Computational Thinking
Stephen Wolfram, (born August 29, 1959, London, England), English physicist and author best known for his contributions to the field of cellular automata and the development of Mathematica, an algebraic software system, and Wolfram...
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Patricia Russac - Teachers Make a Difference - Rosemary Welsh Teres
Patricia A. Russac is a teacher librarian with over seventeen years of experience at an independent, private elementary school in New York. She is a TED Educator, a PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator, and a National Association of...
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Elsa Elisabeth Jones - Teachers Make a Difference
Elsa Elisabeth Jones is a Child Development Specialist and Advocate with 34 years of broad-ranging experience. Ms. Jones is the Program Chair of Early Childhood Education and an Associate Professor at Post University. As an Independent...
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Suzie Boss - Innovation
Suzie Boss is a journalist and consultant who writes about the power of teaching and learning to improve lives and transform communities. Her most recent book is Bringing Innovation to School.
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Ralph Morelli - Computer Science The Challenge
Professor Morelli graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1969 with a B. A. in Mathematics. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, as well as an M. S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. He has been teaching at...
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Gary Orfield - Teachers Make a Difference
Gary Orfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Orfield's research interests are in the study of civil rights, education policy,...
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Bob Greenberg - The Brainwaves Story
Bob Greenberg has spent 30 years as a public school teacher, 15 years in Stamford, CT and 15 years in Bridgeport, CT. In between he spent 15 years as a full time professional magician working trade shows and hospitality events for...
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Jim Carl - Freedom of Choice Vouchers in American Education
Before he was appointed Dean of the Farrington College of Education, Carl served on the faculty of education at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio and as chair of the Department of Curriculum and Foundations at Cleveland...
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Ron Beghetto - Responding to Uncertainty
Dr. Beghetto is an international expert on creativity in educational settings. He serves as Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, Dr....
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Alan Kay - Teachers Make a Difference
Alan Kay, is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with: the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of...
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Lori D'Andrea - Dealing with Depression You are Not Alone
Lori D'Andrea is a former teacher. She is the founder of "One Day at a Time", a Facebook support group for parents whose children are suffering with depression. She lives with her husband, three daughters and three dogs in West Islip, NY.
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Marco Clark - Re-Writing the Future, One Student at a Time
Dr. Marco Clark, well respected author, public speaker, and veteran in the world of urban education is Founder and CEO of the Richard Wright Public Charter School in Washington, DC. He is a partner with Broken Promise Schools, an...
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Bill Ayers - Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, taught courses in...
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Kimberly Brown - Winter Olympics Global Project
Kimberly Brown is a Vice Principal and Learning Resource Teacher in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2010 she organized a global project called 2010 Vancouver Olympics Collaborative Project. She set up a Wiki and using her class blog...
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David Young - Global Education for All
After joining VIF in 1990, David helped lead the organization from family project to small business to being the largest U.S. Department of State-approved exchange teacher program, sponsoring thousands of international teachers in more...
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Cathy Swan - Google Apps for Education
Cathy Swan is a Google Certified Teacher, an Ed Tech Consultant and a retired Technology Integration teacher.
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Linda Tropp - Teachers Make a Difference - Jonathan Cheek
Dr. Tropp’s research focuses on expectations and outcomes of intergroup contact, identification with social groups, interpretations of intergroup relationships, and responses to prejudice and disadvantage. She received the 2012...
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Renee Hobbs - Copyright Clarity How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from...