Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - 'The African Burial Ground' by Yusef Komunyakaa
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ronald Beghetto - Killing Ideas Softly
Dr. Beghetto is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Div. 10), Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Kounios - The Eureka Factor Aha Moments, Creative Insight and the Brain
John Kounios, PhD, is a professor of psychology and director of Drexel University’s doctoral program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He has published cognitive neuroscience research on insight, creativity, problem solving,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Suzanne Carothers - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Evelyn Maxwell
For more than four decades, Suzanne C. Carothers has been in the field of education as a teacher of the youngest of learners to – those who do the teaching, those who are school leaders, and those who inform policy affecting children and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruby Ratliff and Lawrence Cremin
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education (NPE). Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Pianta - Teachers Make a Difference - John Hamilton
Robert Pianta, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Curry School of Education, Novartis US Foundation Professor of Education, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is also Chairman of the Jefferson Education Accelerator...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Homa Sabet Tavangar - Growing Up Global
Homa Sabet Tavangar is the author of Growing Up Global, Raising Children to be at Home in the World and The Global Education ToolKit for Elementary Learners.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alan November - Who Owns the Learning Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age
Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. While Alan was a computer science teacher in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christopher Craft - STEM Education Real Solutions to Real Problems
Dr. Christopher Craft is an award-winning educator and speaker based in South Carolina. As a classroom teacher, he has been recognized both locally and nationally for innovative teaching with technology. Most recently he was selected...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yong Zhao - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon
Yong Zhao currently serves as the Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Educational...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - Teachers Make a Difference
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Curated Video
Proving Your Point: Using Evidence to Support Your Thesis
In this video, the teacher explains how to prove a point using evidence. They emphasize the importance of having strong feelings about the topic in order to effectively prove one's thinking. The teacher also guides the students through...
Easy Languages
Showing our house | Super Easy German (85)
Showing our house | Super Easy German (85) Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Donna Marie Merritt "JD"
Donna Marie Merritt is the author of seven books of poetry . . . Bible Poems for Reflection and Response (2020), No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk (2017), We Walk Together (2015), Her House and Other Poems, (2013), What’s...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Barry Lane - If I Never Had a Teacher
Her name was Carolyn Foley and she taught 4th grade. I was her favorite student I thought for 3 decades. She read my stories to the room. I sat beside her desk. I love the way she sang to us. I even loved her tests. But teachers they’re...
ACDC Leadership
Gettings Students to Buy-In - ACDC For Teachers #2
Welcome to the second episode of my weekly web series, ACDC For Teachers. In this videos I talk about why students hate school and give three specific strategies to get students to buy-in to your class. ACDC stands for my teaching...
Hip Hughes History
Killing AP U.S. History: Stop Oklahoma
A call to action. Oklahoma is currently trying to cut off funding for AP US History b/c it fails to push enough American Exceptionalism and allows kids to think critically about history and the role US has played; both good and bad.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jonathan Supovitz -The Challenge of Education Reform
Dr. Supovitz conducts research on how education organizations use different forms of evidence to inquire about the quality and effect of their systems to support the improvement of teaching and learning in schools. Dr. Supovitz also...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ymasumac Marañón Davis - Inequity and Social Justice
"Ymasumac Marañón Davis is an educational consultant, intuitive life coach and author. Like her name, her life reflects the unique perspectives she brings to the important work of highlighting social justice issues of our time, bringing...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Matthew Lerner - Autism Unlocking the Social World
Matthew D. Lerner, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, & Pediatrics in the Psychology Department at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Stony Brook Social Competence and Treatment Lab. Dr. Lerner's research...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marilyn Cochran-Smith - Rethinking Accountability
Marilyn Cochran-Smith is the Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College (USA), where she directed the Ph.D. Program in Curriculum and Instruction from 1996-2017. A teacher...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - 'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - The Essential Conversation Parent - Teacher Conferences
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an author, educator, researcher, and public intellectual. She has pioneered an innovative social science method called "portraiture," written eleven books, serves on numerous professional and scholarly boards...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michelle Zimmerman - Teaching AI Exploring New Frontiers for Learning
Michelle Zimmerman, PhD, has taught all grades from Pre-K through 10th within the past 16 years, with a focus on middle and high school since 2009. She has presented her research across the US and Canada since 2007, and to Satya Nadella...