Brainwaves Video Anthology
Milton Chen - Personalized Learning
Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and...
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Rebecca West - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Australia
Rebecca West was a top ten finalist for the 2021 Global Teacher Prize. Rebecca is also deputy principal at Bonnyrigg Public School, New South Wales, Australia, knew as soon as she entered a classroom as a student-teacher 22 years ago...
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Jesse Turner - Critical Race Theory
Dr. Turner is the Director of the CCSU Literacy Center, and a Professor in the Department of Literacy Elementary, and Early Childhood Education. He is also the Co-Host of TEDxCCSU events, (2013-Present), the Co-Host of the Central...
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Elizabeth Watts Bromery - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - USA
Elizabeth Watts Bromery, an English Professor at Broward County Public Schools, Florida, became an educator in 1990 as her parents raised her to equate education with social justice. She chose teaching to empower students to make...
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Matine Khalighi - Overcoming Student Homelessness
Matine Khalighi, a 19-year-old student from Colorado now studying at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Matine Khalighi’s interest in helping others began in middle school when he enrolled in a community service class to research a social...
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Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD - Recovery from Lyme Disease
Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD, is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease, and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. He co-founded The New England...
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Bob Roth - Quiet Time Changes Lives
Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. Over the past forty-five years, Bob has taught Transcendental Meditation to many thousands of people, including billionaire CEOs, Hollywood...
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Tanya K. Hernández- Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The Science of Implicit Bias...
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Milton Chen - Teachers Make a Difference - Richard Panagos
Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and...
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Scott Hebert - Student Engagement
Scott Hebert is a teacher in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. He is a Top Fifty Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize.Scott began his career immediately out of university as an elementary Physical Education specialist for a school in...
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David L. Green - On Becoming a Research Scientist
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...
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Damon Centola - How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions
Damon Centola is a Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group. He is a leading world expert on social networks and behavior change. His work...
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Michelle Garnaut AO - Feeding Body, Mind & Soul
Michelle Garnaut began her career as one of China's most celebrated restaurateurs in 1989, when she opened M at the Fringe in Hong Kong. It swiftly grew into a city institution, and in 1999, M on the Bund opened, the first independent...
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Mark Naison - CRT Hysteria
Dr. Mark Naison, Professor of African American Studies and History at Fordham University, is the author of seven books and over 300 articles on African American politics, labor history, popular culture and education policy. His first...
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Jane Chikapa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Malawi
Jane Chikapa is a top fifty Global Teacher Prize finalist. Jane teaches English in a secondary school located on the edge of Lake Malawi – an area where many people value working in the fishing business over the pursuit of education....
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Rebecca West - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Field and Anthony Pitt
Rebecca West was a top ten finalist for the 2021 Global Teacher Prize. Rebecca is also deputy principal at Bonnyrigg Public School, New South Wales, Australia, knew as soon as she entered a classroom as a student-teacher 22 years ago...
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Meghana Musunuri - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - India
Social Studies, English and Mathematics teacher Meghana Musunuri from Hyderabad, India, is an education futurist, philanthropist and a passionate and prolific entrepreneur. She is Founder & Chairperson of Fountainhead Global School &...
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Rozanna Lilley - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Vivienne Kondos
Rozanna Lilley grew up in South Perth, the youngest of five children. Her parents – Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley – were both left wing radicals and writers. They moved to Sydney in Lilley’s last year of primary school. After school,...
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Meghana Musunuri - Bringing India Together
Social Studies, English and Mathematics teacher Meghana Musunuri from Hyderabad, India, is an education futurist, philanthropist and a passionate and prolific entrepreneur. She is Founder & Chairperson of Fountainhead Global School &...
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Evans Odei - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Ghana
Mathematics teacher Evans Odei from Achimota Senior High, Greater Accra, Ghana, has been teaching for 20 years with the Ghana Education Service, falling in love with the profession while at teacher training college. After teaching at...
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Julian Vasquez Heilig - Community Based Education Reform
Julian Vasquez Heilig leads nearly 3,000 students, staff and faculty as the Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education. He is also a tenured professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. While at UK, the College of...
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Michael S. Roth - Intellectual Diversity in Dangerous Times
Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal education. A...
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Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD - Neuropeptides & Kabbalah: Evolving Paradigms in Medicine and Healing
Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD, is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease, and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. He co-founded The New England...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
William Doyle - Teachers Make a Difference - My Parents, Leonard Bernstein & Heikki Happonen
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...