Brainwaves Video Anthology
Linah Anyango - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Lorna Amuka
Linah Anyango is a science teacher formerly of Mombasa, Kenya. Linah now teaches at Regis School Runda, Kenya's only National Curriculum School built to International Standards. She is a top 50 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize.
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Dianne Bilyak Teachers Make a Difference - Kathy Bachiochi
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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Caridad Moro - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Wolf
Caridad Moro is the author of TORTILLERA, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize for Florida which will be published by Texas Review Press in the Spring of 2021, as well as the chapbook Visionware, published by...
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Avi Loeb - Teachers Make a Difference - John Bahcall
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project...
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Alejandra Cabrera -Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Dzovinar Bodosian
Alejandra Cabrera is a professor at Paccioli Xalapa University in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
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Sheena Graham "The Creation vs The Creator"
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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Renee Linnell - Still On Fire: A Memoir - Magic, Miracles, Travel and Romance
Renee Linnell is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded five companies and has an MBA from New York University; before that she was a model and professional dancer. Having an unorthodox childhood and being surrounded by death...
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Renee Linnell - Teachers Make a Difference - Brenda Gooden
Renee Linnell is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded five companies and has an MBA from New York University; before that she was a model and professional dancer. Having an unorthodox childhood and being surrounded by death...
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Benjamin Abelow How the West Brought War to Ukraine - Part 2
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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Elissa Malespina - Freedom to Read
Elissa has been a high school history teacher, a special education teacher for students with severe emotional, mental and physical challenges, a teacher Librarian at Highland Park High School, Columbia High School and South Orange Middle...
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Vanessa Siddle Walker - School Integration
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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Lessons from My Father: A Teacher Who Made a Difference
Lamees Gouda Ameen is an English teacher at the Mostafa Kamel Official Language School in Banha, Qualubiya, Egypt. This video highlights the impact of Lamees's father, a professor at Cairo University, on their life. Her father not only...
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Tony Fusco - “The Twilight of America"
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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Sumbul Ali-Karamali - Teachers Make a Difference - Allan Carter
Sumbul Ali-Karamali grew up in Southern California, answering questions about Islam. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a J. D. from the University of California at Davis, and a graduate degree in Islamic Law from the University...
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Shane Strange "Ian Curtis Tours America"
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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Julie Batten "Falling"
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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Michael J. Dunlea Teachers Make a Difference - Mary Finn
Michael Dunlea is a third grade teacher at the Tabernacle Elementary School, Tabernacle, New Jersey, USA. He has been selected as a Top Fifty Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize.In the classroom, he has been using technology to take...
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Sheena Graham - "This World is Mine"
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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Timothy B. Tyson - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Martha Tyson & Mrs. Emily Montague
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
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Steven S. Rogers - Successful Black Entrepreneurs
Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management. He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business...
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Robert Cotto, Jr. - Perspective: School Board Member, Teacher, Parent
Robert Cotto, Jr. graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in sociology and he has a Master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and from Trinity College in American Studies. Before coming to Trinity,...
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Daniel Martinez HoSang - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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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Fiona Giles - On Being a Feminist Writer
Fiona Giles retired from the University of Sydney in 2020, where she taught and researched literary journalism, creative nonfiction and feminist theory relating to breastfeeding and maternal sexuality. After graduating from Oxford with a...
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Julie Batten - Homelessness and Writing: Glass House Shelter Project
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...