Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jane Krauss - Teachers Make a Difference - Jim Johnson
Jane Krauss is a teacher, author and consultant who does curriculum and program development designed to increase participation of girls and other underrepresented groups in computer science. She will gladly tell you why computational...
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Angel Mejico - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Harvey Good
Dr. Angel Mejico was the 2019 California Teacher of the Year and a top fifty finalist for the 2020 Global Teacher prize.A medical student deciding to pursue a career of teaching art may seem like an unusual choice, but for, Dr. Angel...
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Georgia Maneta - Teachers Make a Difference
Georgia Maneta is a primary school teacher of English at the 2nd Primary School Mileon - Kalon Neron, Greece, oral assessor of English for the State certificate, a volunteer at YFU (Youth For Understanding) and a Member of the Matrix...
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Michael Lenox - Teachers Make a Difference - Ernest Mead
Professor Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business where he teaches the core MBA strategy course. He also serves as the school’s Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy...
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Bruce D. Baker - Why Money Matters for America's Students
Bruce D. Baker, Ed.D. is a Professor in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration at the GSE, and is widely recognized as a leading scholar in the field of education finance. Serving in both academic and...
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Bessy Reyna "I Was Born On An Island"
Bessy Reyna is the author of two bilingual books of poetry, The Battlefield of Your Body (Hill-Stead Museum, 2005) and Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover/ Memorias de la amante infiel (tunAstral, A.C., 2010, Toluca Mexico). A chapbook of...
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Sarah Donn - Teachers Make a Difference - Jonathan Siegle
Sarah Donn is a 2nd grade teacher at Willagillespie Elementry Scool in Eugene, Oregon. She is proud and blessed to be a part of a strong, creative, supportive, and caring team. Her teammates and colleagues help her to be a better...
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Sónia Moreira - Teachers Make a Difference - Graciosa
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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Pat McLean-Smith “For Sonia”
Pat McLean-Smith, is a published poet and teaching artist. She is the author of two books of poetry and the recipient of several awards. Including 1st place for the Sonia Sanchez/Audre Lorde Poetry Competition, 2nd place for Judith Stark...
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Nancy Barile - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Rosemary Tobin
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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Mohamed Mohtady Mohamed - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Ahmed
Mohamed Mohtady Mohamed is a top 50 Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize. He teaches boys from the sixth grade to the twelfth at a Anas Bin Al Nadr School in a remote area of Fujairah, UAE where there are many obstacles to effective...
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Bill Berman - Teachers Make a Difference - Sidney Blatt
Bill is a seasoned consultant with more than 25 years experience as an academic, clinician, senior line manager and consultant / coach. He has been assessing individuals since 1983, delivering organizational consulting and coaching since...
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Jennifer Freyd Teachers Make a Difference - Roger Shepard
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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Donna Marie Merritt "I Don't Wish Them Ill"
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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Jennifer Brown - How To Be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating a Culture of Belonging
Jennifer Brown (she/her) is a globally recognized DEI thought leader, highly sought after speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, and best-selling author. Jennifer envisions inclusive organizations where all of us can thrive. As someone who...
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Jack Phillips Teachers Make a Difference - Robert Goslin & Carl Register
Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., chairman of ROI Institute, is a world-renowned expert on accountability, measurement, and evaluation. Jack provides consulting services for Fortune 500 companies and major global organizations, and regularly...
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Ricardo Rosa - Equity and Justice in Education
Dr. Ricardo Rosa is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Rosa is the Co-Author of Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control: Language Deception and Digital...
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Scott Ellsworth - On Censorship
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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Tony Fusco - "Java Scripture”
Tony Fusco, is a West Haven resident and was named Poet Laureate for the City of West Haven in April of 2019. and is also Co- President and Past-President of the CT Poetry Society. He has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from...
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Signe Myers Hovem - Teachers Make a Difference - Jim Miller and Bill Preston
Are you highly sensitive? Empathetic? Empathic? An empath? Accepting and embodying your empathic nature is an intentional path towards balance and belonging to yourself. The path to authenticity is knowing who you are. The Space in...
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Shane Strange - Teachers Make a Difference - Dan O'Neill & Martin Duwell
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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Robbie Bach - Teachers Make a Difference - Bernard Vergnes
Robbie joined Microsoft in 1988. Over the next twenty-two years, he worked in various marketing and business management roles—including supporting the successful launch and expansion of Microsoft Office. As Chief Xbox Officer, he led the...
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Rebekah Modrak - Teachers Make a Difference - Adrienne Salinger
Rebekah Modrak is a writer and interventionist artist whose artworks resist consumer culture. Re Made Co. (remadeco.org) poses as an online “company” to recreate actual company Best Made Co. (seller of $350 luxury hand-painted axes) by...
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Martín Espada "Letter to My Father"
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...