Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Blumengarten - Keeping Your Students on Track
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...
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Carlo Mazzone - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Italy
Carlo Mazzone is a 2020 Global Teacher Prize top ten finalist. Carlo comes from an educational family: his father was a headmaster, and his mother and sister were both teachers. Carlo himself initially gained a degree in computer science...
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Linda Hillringhouse - Painting, Poetry and Imagination
Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...
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Derald Wing Sue - Microaggressions in Everyday Life
Born in Portland, OR, Dr. Derald Wing Sue is the son of parents who emigrated from China. Early childhood memories of being teased due to his ethnicity lead to his fascination with human behavior. His deep interest and passion led him to...
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Bill McKibben - Climate Change
Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more...
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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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Jennifer Freyd - Betrayal Trauma
Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, is a researcher, author, educator, and speaker. Freyd is the Founder and President of the Center for Institutional Courage, Professor Emerit of Psychology at the University of Oregon, and Faculty Affiliate of the...
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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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Sean Frederick Forbes - Teachers Make a Difference - Janet Feldberg
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...
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Mark Minukas Unfear: Transforming Your Organization
Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas are coauthors of Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being.Mark Minukas is the managing partner of Co-Creation Partners. An engineer by training, he...
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Christopher W. Albrecht - Teaching in the Global Pandemic and Beyond
Christopher Albrecht has been a teacher for over a quarter century. He spent the first three years of his career in New Martinsville, West Virginia. In his first year, Albrecht was named a Sallie Mae First Class National Teacher of the...
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Scott Hebert - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Canada
Scott Hebert is a teacher in Fort Saskatchewan, 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 Calgary,...
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Erin Hynes - Parenting in the Global Pandemic
Erin Hynes is Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction for the Sachem, NY School District.Mrs. Hynes has worked for the past nine years as the K-12 District Administrator for Curriculum in the Comsewogue School District,...
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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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Janel George - Teachers Make a Difference - Opal Moore
Janel George is an Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy (REELP) Clinic. Her clinical projects and research focus on the development and implementation of legislative...
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RuNett Nia Ebo "Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black?"
RuNett Nia Ebo, author of 8 chapbooks and 3 paperbacks of poetry and counting. Her signature poem is "Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black?" It is a contribution to Chicken Soup For the African American Soul. Ms. Ebo visits schools (all...
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Kristin Henning - Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Kristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law, where she and her law students represent youth accused of delinquency in Washington, DC. Kris was previously the...
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Ian Manuel - Poetry Behind Bars
When Ian Manuel was 13 years old, he was directed by some older juvenile boys to participate in an armed robbery. During the botched robbery attempt, a Tampa, FL woman (Debbie Baigrie) suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound. When Ian later...
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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...
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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...
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Shane Strange "Uses of Poetry 8"
Shane Strange’s writing has appeared in various print and online journals in Australia and internationally. He is the author of two chapbooks Notes to the Reader and Dark Corner. His first collection of poetry All Suspicions Have Been...
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Marina Kharitonashvili - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Tbilisi, Georgia
Marina Kharitonashvili is a Geography Teacher at Aia-Gess Middle School in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is very involved in Global Projects with her students. She earned a PhD degree at Georgian Technical University and a Master's Degree in...
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Jessica Lander - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Lowell, MA USA
Jessica Lander is a teacher, author, and advocate. In 2021, Jessica was a Top 50 Finalist, Global Teacher Prize, Varkey Foundation. The finalists were chosen from more than 8000 nominations from 121 countries around the world. She...