Brainwaves Video Anthology
Athriyana Pattiwael - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Indonesia
Athriyana Pattiwael is a faculty member at UKRIDA, Department of English Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Susan Campbell - Teachers Make a Difference - Richard Massa
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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Daniel Blanchard - The Storm: How Young Men Become Good Men
Dan Blanchard has done his homework. He’s been an inner-city school teacher and athletic coach for 20 years and has a passion for teaching, inspiring, and working with teens. “It’s tough for a lot of kids today. They don’t always have...
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Daniel Blanchard - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. K and Coach Knapp
Dan Blanchard has done his homework. He’s been an inner-city school teacher and athletic coach for 20 years and has a passion for teaching, inspiring, and working with teens. “It’s tough for a lot of kids today. They don’t always have...
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Damon Centola - Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
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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Andrés A. Richner - Can Emotions Be Measured?
Andrés Richner is the Director of Technology at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where he spearheads the development of an online learning platform to support RULER, the Center’s approach to social emotional learning and...
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Danielle McGuire - From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power - Part 2
Danielle McGuire, PhD, is an award-winning historian, public speaker and author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power...
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Daniel Martinez HoSang - How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone Part 1
Daniel Martinez HoSang is Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee. His most recent...
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Maarit Rossi - Everyone Can Learn Math
Finnish educator Maarit Rossi was a top 10 finalist for the 2016 Global Teacher Prize. Her passion is make Math more interesting, meaningful and fun for students.She was a Math teacher and principal and Is now the is CEO of Paths to Math...
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Solmaz Suleymanova - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Baku, Azerbaijan
Solmaz Suleymanova is an English teacher in Baku, Azerbaijan. She has been teaching for 14 years trying to play a role in the successful future of her students. She wants to improve their English abilities and create a wider outlook for...
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Pegi Deitz Shea "Aphasia"
Pegi Deitz Shea is an award-winning author and poet for all ages. She is a writing instructor at The Mark Twain House & Museum, School Literary Presenter at Children's Books and the First Poet Laureate at Town of Vernon, CT. She studied...
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Michael Roth - Teachers Make a Difference -Victor Gourevitch & Henry Abelove
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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Martín Espada "Floaters"
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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Mark Tredinnick - Teachers Make a Difference - Barry Lopez
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron Pretty...
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Julie Batten - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Corinne Demas Bliss
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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Geoff Page - Teachers Make a Difference - Merv Wasson
Geoff Page grew up on the Clarence River in NSW and is based in Canberra. He has published twenty-five collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a...
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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura "Ritual"
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a poet, visual artist, and cartoonist. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, DMQ Review, Tule Review, THINK Journal, Louisiana Literature, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere....
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Alicia Ostriker - Teachers Make a Difference - Allen Ginsberg
Alicia Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. Ostriker received a BA from Brandeis University in 1959 and an MA and PhD in literature, in 1961 and 1964 respectively, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She is the author...
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Bradford Pearson - A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
Bradford Pearson is an award-winning journalist whose work examines everything from magicians to Japanese American incarceration to his own kidnapping. He’s written for The New York Times, and Esquire, Time, and Men’s Health magazines,...
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Acharya Shunya - Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful
Trailblazing Vedic spiritual teacher Acharya Shunya is the first female head of her 2,000-year-old Indian spiritual lineage, Shunya reinterprets and recontextualizes ancient teachings for modern times, empowering people everywhere to...
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Richard Ovenden - The Bodleian Library - University of Oxford
Richard Ovenden has been Bodley’s Librarian (the senior Executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. Prior to that Richard held positions at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the...
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Daniel Martinez HoSang - Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning
Daniel Martinez HoSang is Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee.
His most recent...
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Bessy Reyna "Is This Really Broad Street, Hartford?"
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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Željana Radojičić Lukić - Teachers Make a Difference - Milica Maric
Željana is a former refugee and now teaches in the rural community. She could never get back to her hometown, but her experiences inspired her to develop a new type of school tailored for a child of the 21st century. In her first big...