Brainwaves Video Anthology
Solmaz Suleymanova - Teachers Make a Difference - Mayil Mammadov
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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Lanoke Intan Paradita - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Indonesia
Lanoke Intan Paradita is an English Language Instructor at Pusat Pelatihan Bahasa UMY, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She studied English literature at Sanata Dharma University and went to SMU Tirtonirmolo.
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Rodney Robinson - Diversity and Student Success
Rodney has over 20 years experience as an educator with Richmond Public Schools. He graduated from King William High School in rural Virginia in 1996. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Virginia State University in 2000 and...
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Denisha Jones - Teachers Make a Difference - Elma Redfern Moore, Ed D
Denisha Jones is the Director, Art of Teaching Program at Sarah Lawrence College. She earned a BS in Early Childhood Education and Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of the District of Columbia; PhD. in Curriculum...
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Asma Mustafa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Palestine
Asma Mustafa is A Teacher of English from Gaza-Palestine
Asma is The Creative Teacher of Palestine Winner 2022 and the Stars of Education 2020 in Palestine Prize Winner.
Among her other awards and honors are The Prize of Creativity &...
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Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received his BA in History from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in U.S. History with a minor in African studies from...
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Roberto Carlos Garcia - To a Young Man on His First Period
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...
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Maximilien Lambart - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - France
Maximilien Lambart is a young teacher who very quickly found himself teaching students with special educational needs. Despite himself, he was assigned to SEGPA, students with learning difficulties. He has been teaching there for 5...
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Kimberly Eckert - Teachers Make a Difference - Minnie Lafargue
Kimberly Eckert serves as the Director of Educator Development at the Louisiana Department of Education while still teaching Educators Rising in West Baton Rouge Schools. She holds a BA in social work, an MEd in Special Education, and is...
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Jane Chikapa - Teachers Make a Difference - Violet Mmoloke
Jane Chikapa is a top fifty Global Teacher Prize finalist. Jane teaches English in a secondary school located on the edge of Lake Malawi – an area where many people value working in the fishing business over the pursuit of education....
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Gaëlle Assoune - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - France
Gaelle Assoune has spent much of her professional life trying to widen the horizons of teaching beyond the boundaries of the national teaching system. She believes that in the French system, there is not enough room for experimentation,...
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Ewan McIntosh - Teachers Make a Difference - Judy MacRae
Ewan McIntosh is the founder & CEO of NoTosh. Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, Ewan is the passionate and energising tour de force behind NoTosh. A highly-regarded keynote speaker at events around...
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Émile Le Menn - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - France
Émile Le Menn is a French primary school teacher based in Paris. In 2017, in order to become a better teacher, he went on a trip around the world to discover innovative and alternative schools. This experience led to the book "L'Ecole...
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Pat McLean-Smith - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Regina Jennings
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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Ed Ahern "Dear John"
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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Carlo Mazzone - Teachers Make a Difference
Carlo Mazzone is a 2020 Global Teacher Prize top ten finalist. Carlo comes from an educational family: his father was a headmaster, and his mother and sister were both teachers. Carlo himself initially gained a degree in computer science...
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Adam F.C. Fletcher - Meaningful Student Involvement
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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Jason Acosta - Who am I? The Role of Identity in Education
Jason Acosta attended DreamYard Preparatory High School in the Bronx where he received college advising support from one of New Settlement’s school based counselors.Upon graduating, Jason went to Marist College, where he majored in...
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Lily Brett - Cracked Dreams
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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John L. Stanizzi "Wish at First Snow"
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
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Esmeralda Gonzalez - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Mexico
Esmeralda Gonzalez is a graduate of the Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont Ferrand, France. She is a Professor at the Facultad de Idiomas UABC Mexicali. Esmeralda also teaches at Escuela Normal Estefania Castañeda.
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Pegi Deitz Shea "White Privilege"
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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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Maritza in the Street"
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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Elisa Albo - "At Any Age"
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...