Brainwaves Video Anthology
Angela Onwuachi-Willig - Teachers Make a Difference
Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she...
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Scott Ellsworth - The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
Dr. Scott Ellsworth, University of Michigan, teaches courses on African American history, Southern literature, race and sports, and crime and justice in contemporary U.S. society. Trained as a historian, he received his Ph.D from Duke...
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Tracy Ann Hall - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Brown
Jamaican educator Tracy-Ann Hall was a top 10 finalist for the 2017 Global Teacher Prize. Tracy-Ann did not enjoy successful school years herself, due to undiagnosed dyslexia. She did not move on to higher education immediately but...
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Matthew Faulkner - Most Likely to Survive
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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Ranjitsinh Disale - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - India
Ranjitsinh Disale is the winner of the one million dollar 2020 Global Teacher Prize. He arrived at the Zilla Parishad Primary School in Paritewadi village in Solapur district in 2009 when it was a dilapidated building, sandwiched between...
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Pat McLeod - Teachers Make a Difference - Marty Brown
Pat and Tammy McLeod serve as Harvard Chaplains for Cru, an interdenominational Christian ministry. Tammy is also the Director of College Ministry at Park Street Church in Boston. She received her MA in Spiritual Formation from...
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Jeffry Prickett - Teaching in Challenging Times
Dr. Jeff is Principal of McHenry High School for McHenry Community High School District #156. He is also the 2021 Illinois High School Principal of the Year in recognition of the positive impact he's made on students, families and the...
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Elisa Albo - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Jacobo Albo
Elisa Albo’s poetry chapbook Passage to America recounts her family immigrant story and Each Day More is a collection of elegies, both personal and public (Main Street Rag). Her narrative poems about family, food, and humanity are...
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Bill Holmes - Teachers Make a Difference - Lamont Steptoe
Bill Holmes is a Philadelphia poet whose lifetime goal has been to become a successful writer and author. He is the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word CD Asphyxiation, and the newly released full-length poetry book...
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Tim Madigan The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
In a journalism career spanning more than three decades, Tim has written for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Politico, Reader's Digest, and for thirty years the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tim's books include the critically acclaimed...
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Elizabeth Watts Bromery - Teachers Make a Difference - Leon and Jean Watts
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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Lily Brett - A Life Well Written
Lily Brett is an internationally acclaimed author of six novels, four collections of essays and nine volumes of poetry. She has been the recipient of many literary awards including, the 1987 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award: C.J....
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Tinna Björk Pálsdóttir - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Iceland
Tinna Björk Pálsdóttir teaches in Hörðuvallaskóli, Reykjavík, Iceland. She studied Mechatronics engineering at the University of Iceland and the University of Southern Denmark. When she started teaching, she taught Danish (which is...
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Julie Batten "Born to Dance"
Julie Batten is the founder of the Glass House Shelter Project, a grassroots organization that brings college reading & writing courses into homeless shelters. She teaches writing courses at Brandeis University, Salem State University...
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Poetry: Nourishing the Spirit During Difficult Times
Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. In this video, he highlights the importance of addressing the deep inequities and challenges faced by communities, especially during the pandemic. Through initiatives like providing...
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Trust Mutekwa - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Levison Simbanegavi
Trust Mutekwa is a specialist teacher of children with visual impairment at St. Giles Special School in Harare, Zimbabwe, this is Trust’s nineteenth year as a teacher, and his eleventh year working with children who are disabled.
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Rozanna Lilley "The Lady in the Bottle"
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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Martín Espada "Aubade with Concussion"
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball...
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Aurora V. Archer Teachers Make a Difference - Eileen Sullivan & Jane Freeman
Aurora Verona Archer is an English teacher at the School of Languages and the Language Center at the Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. She received her PhD from the University of Southampton, UK.
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Tanya Katerí Hernández - Teachers Make a Difference - Prof. Anani Dzidzienyo
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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Steven Kent Mirassou - Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine
Steven Kent Mirassou received his BA in American Literature from the George Washington University and his MA in Literature from NYU. He was born in the Salinas Valley and grew up in San Jose and Los Gatos before going east to college....
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Rozanna Lilley "Wedgwood"
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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Nancy Barile - The Walking Dead in the Classroom
Nancy Barile is a National Board Certified Teacher, who has been teaching English Language Arts at a low-income, urban high school near Boston, MA for 22 years. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at...
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Larry Ferlazzo - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - USA
Larry Ferlazzo is an award-winning English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif. He is the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, The ESL/ELL...