Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Tredinnick "The Godwit"
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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Mark Tredinnick "Gaudeamus Igitur"
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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Marisa Badini - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Piacenza, Italy
Marisa Badini is an English teacher and pedagogical advisor for teachers and students at Ottavo Circolo Primary School in Piacenza, Italy.
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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Forage"
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born poet, translator, and educator. Her honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at The Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global...
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Ranjitsinh Disale - Teachers Make a Difference - Madhadeo Disale
Ranjitsinh Disale, who is a top ten finalist for the 2020 Global Teacher Prize, arrived at the Zilla Parishad Primary School in Paritewadi village in Solapur district in 2009 when it was a dilapidated building, sandwiched between a...
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Bella Mahaya Carter "Messa Road"
Bella Mahaya Carter is the author of Where Do You Hang Your Hammock?: Finding Peace of Mind While You Write, Publish, and Promote Your Book. She is a creative writing teacher, empowerment coach, and speaker, and author of an...
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Suzanne Nossel - Teachers Make a Difference - Werner Feig
Suzanne Nossel currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organization, and she is author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Since joining in 2013, she has...
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Benjamin Abelow - How the West Brought War to Ukraine - Part 1
Benjamin Abelow holds a B.A. in modern European history from the University of Pennsylvania, where he participated in an honors seminar on U.S. Cold War foreign policy taught by the scholar Marc Tractenberg. He then worked in Washington,...
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Adam F.C. Fletcher - Omaha Black History
Adam F.C. Fletcher is a writer, speaker and focused on human engagement, education transformation, and social change. Exciting, educating, and empowering are some of the words people have used to describe Adam F.C. Fletcher. A specialist...
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Tim Madigan Teachers Make a Difference - Mike Lundby and Howie Good
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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Sheena Graham - Music is Powerful
Sheena Graham was educated in the Public School System of Ansonia, Connecticut. She received her B.S. in Music Education from Western Connecticut State University, and 30+from St. Joseph's and Southern CT State Universities. She became...
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Patricia Phillips Teachers Make a Difference - David Cook and Bob Slagter
Patti P. Phillips, Ph.D., is co-founder and CEO of ROI Institute. She is a driving force in the global adoption of the ROI Methodology and measurement and evaluation to influence organizational change. Her work as an educator,...
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Vineeta Garg - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Nisha
Vineeta Garg teaches at Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School in Delhi, India. She is a Global Teacher Prize Finalist.She first started teaching in computer institutes to fund her own higher education studies. However, the experience of...
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Vanessa Siddle Walker - Teachers Make a Difference - Hattie Kittridge Brown
Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies (B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.Ed Harvard University; Ed. D Harvard University). For 25 years, she has explored the...
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Thomas Newkirk - Teachers Make a Difference - Donald Murray
Thomas Newkirk is the author of numerous Heinemann titles, including Embarrassment, Minds Made for Stories, The Art of Slow Reading, The Performance of Self in Student Writing (winner of the NCTE's David H. Russell Award), and Misreading...
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Steven Kolber - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Gower
Steven Kolber was a top 50 finalist for the 2021 Global Teacher Prize. With parents who valued education, it was perhaps inevitable Melbourne English and history teacher Steven Kolber would enter the profession, which he credits with...
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Mokhudu Machaba - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - South Africa
Mochudu Machaba is a Grade 5 and 6 teacher at Ngwanamago Primary School situated around 25 kilometers from Polokwane in South Africa’s Limpopo province. She is a 2020 top 50 Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize.She first became...
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Hiba Ballout - Teaching in Challenging Times - Beirut, Lebanon
Hiba Ballout is Head of secondary cycle, Head of Science Department and a Biology Teacher at Saint Georges schools - Lebanon. Hiba is an Educator at Adyan Foundation for interfaith dialogue and coexistence. She is also an Advisor for...
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Geoff Page " My Mother's God"
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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Ed Ahern "Natter, Chatter, Cha-Ching"
Edward Ahern sometimes detours into literary fiction, but he's best known as a poet and innovative genre writer. He's tucked away several awards and honorable mentions for over two hundred poems and stories and four books. The poems and...
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Ed Ahern - Teachers Make a Difference - Janet Ahern
Edward Ahern sometimes detours into literary fiction, but he's best known as a poet and innovative genre writer. He's tucked away several awards and honorable mentions for over two hundred poems and stories and four books. The poems and...
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Dianne Bilyak "Blake's Theology"
Dianne Bilyak is a Pushcart-prize nominated writer, graduate of the Institute of Sacred Music and Art, and Connecticut disability rights advocate. Her book of poems Against the Turning was published in 2011, and her work has also been...
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Daniel Forrester - Teachers Make a Difference - Bill Clarke
Daniel P. Forrester is the author of Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters' Business Practices. He is the founder of THRUUE, Inc an expert consultancy that assists leaders in bridging the gap between corporate culture and corporate...
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Cornelia Bățăuș - Teachers Make a Difference - Mirela Tanc
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...