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)....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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William Peters - What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach Us About Dying Well and Living Better
William Peters is the author of At Heaven's Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better. He is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project and director of its Research Initiative. Recognized as a...
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José Gustavo Calderón De Anda - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Mexico
Gustavo is a Global Teacher Prize 2020 Top 50 Finalist. He is passionate about education, technology and innovation. At his School in the City of Guadalajara, México, he works on projects with disadvantaged communities who deal with very...
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Susan Campbell - Why Journalism Matters
Susan Campbell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a widely-read newspaper columnist, and the author of three books. She has worked across the media landscape as an award-winning print journalist, a regular commentator on WNPR, and a...
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Jaekyung Lee - Can America Fix Its Education System? (broken and unequal)
Jaekyung Lee, PhD, is a professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Lee is an internationally recognized leader in...
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Preston E. Green - School Funding
Preston Green is a professor of educational leadership and law at the University of Connecticut. At the University of Connecticut, Dr. Green helped develop the UCAPP Law Program, which enables participants to obtain a law degree and...
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Sumbul Ali-Karamali - Demystifying Shariah
Sumbul Ali-Karamali grew up in Southern California, answering questions about Islam. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a J. D. from the University of California at Davis, and a graduate degree in Islamic Law from the University...
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Ravi Shankar "Thomas Jefferson in Kathmandu"
Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...
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Marina Kharitonashvili - Teachers Make a Difference -Jemali Kharitonashvili & Maia Bliadze
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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Juline Anquetin Rault - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - France
Even as a child, Juline Anquetin Rault knew she wanted to become a teacher, but there was a time when she doubted whether her dream would come true. When she took the national exam to become a history and geography teacher, she ranked...
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Jeffrey Remington - Teachers Make a Difference - J. Kevin Scanlon
Jeff Remington is a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize and one of ten National STEM Teacher Ambassadors from a program administered by The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the National Council of Teachers of...
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Barry Lane - After THE END
Barry Lane has taught writing in grades K-12, and written many professional books to help teachers teach writing with joy and passion. He is a sought after keynote speaker and divides his time between classroom visits, workshops with...
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Donna Marie Merritt - Teachers Make a Difference
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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Richard Rothstein - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the...
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Cornelia Bățăuș - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Romania
Cornelia Bățăuș is a primary education teacher at the Secondary School Constantin Brancusi, Bucharest, Romania.She is a Microsoft MIE Expert 2019-2020, Mystery Skype Master, Global Winner MIF 2019. She is honored to join as a Cohort 4...
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Pauline Boss -Teachers Make a Difference - Carl Whitaker, M.D.
Dr. Pauline Boss is a family therapist, educator and researcher who is widely recognized for her groundbreaking research on what is now known as the theory of ambiguous loss. Dr. Boss is known as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study...
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Sanaz Fotouhi - Love Marriage in Kabul: A Memoir
Sanaz Fotouhi was born in Iran soon after the revolution, during the Iran-Iraq war. Her father’s job as a banker took her and her family to many countries before she landed in Australia.She holds a PhD in Literature from the University...
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Gaurav Bhatnagar - Fear vs Unfear
Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas are coauthors of Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being.Gaurav Bhatnagar is the founder of Co-Creation Partners and has dedicated more than two...