Brainwaves Video Anthology
Katerine Franco-Cardenas -Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Colombia
Colombian teacher Katerine Franco Carenas was a finalist in 2016, for the one million dollar Global Teacher Prize, sponsored by the Varkey Foundation. Katerine teaches ICT in a primary school in Medellin. She focuses on team work to...
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Benjamin Abelow Teachers Make a Difference: Norman Miller & Marc Trachtenberg
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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David Zucchino - Myth of the Welfare Queen
David Zucchino is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He was awarded a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Wilmington's Lie." He was also awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his dispatches from apartheid South Africa. Mr....
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Stephen D. Krashen - Language Acquisition
Stephen Krashen completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at UCLA (1972), and is currently an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. Krashen is the author of more than 525 articles and books in the fields of...
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Robert McCaw - On Clerking for Justice Hugo L. Black
Robert B. McCaw grew up in a military family traveling the world. After graduating from Georgetown University, he served as a lieutenant in the US Army before earning his JD degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Upon...
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Kevin Krenitsky, M.D. - The Still Point: The Simplicity of Spiritual Enlightenment
Kevin Krenitsky is a medical doctor and author of The Still Point. Despite leading a life deemed outwardly “successful”, he lived with a deep background of anxiety, fear, and stress that waxed and waned since early childhood. At the age...
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Armando Persico - Teachers Make a Difference - Professor Dino Marmiroli
Italy’s Armando Persico loves teaching with the entrepreneurial approach at the International level.His first students’ mini-company in 1996, participated to the first European trade fairs in 2000. He has implemented European exchanges...
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Lynne Twist - Teachers Make a Difference - Buckminster Fuller
Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and sustainability for more than forty years. She is also the cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance and...
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Katerine Franco-Cardenas - Teachers Make a Difference - Isalia Maria Cardona
Colombian teacher Katerine Franco Carenas was a finalist in 2016, for the one million dollar Global Teacher Prize, sponsored by the Varkey Foundation. Katerine teaches ICT in a primary school in Medellin. She focuses on team work to...
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J. Cynthia McDermott - The Foxfire Approach: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond
J. Cynthia McDermott is a retired professor of education at Antioch University Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy, Fulbright scholar at the University of Wroclaw Poland and...
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Adam F.C. Fletcher - Teachers Make a Difference - Idu Maduli
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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Michelle D. Gladieux - Communicate with Courage
Meet Michelle Gladieux (Glad-ee-oh) - an engaging, caring, inclusive, and forthright coach and teacher. Today, Michelle and her team at Gladieux Consulting present communication seminars and lead strategic planning and executive coaching...
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Jose A. Lovo - Building Quality Education
Jose Lovo is in a doctoral student at Antioch University. He has taught pre-school, elementary and has been a principal. HE has returned to the classroom at Los Angeles Unified School District. He is a true activist with unbounding...
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Jim Forde - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Karly Meltzer
For 30 years he has served in various roles serving public education, including: James (Jim) Forde was born in Yonkers, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, and currently lives and James (Jim) Forde was born in Yonkers, New York, to...
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Robert Cotto, Jr. - School Funding Inequity
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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Kanchan Bhaskar - Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage
Kanchan Bhaskar was born and brought up in New Delhi, India. She holds a master’s degree in social work from Delhi University and a postgraduate certificate in personnel management and industrial relations. She moved to the US in 2000...
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Ira Shor - On Paulo Freire
Ira Shor received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he taught composition and rhetoric. He was also doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in...
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Ira Shor - Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change
Ira Shor received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he taught composition and rhetoric. He was also doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in...
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Tanya Katerí Hernández - Critical Race Theory
Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The Science of Implicit Bias...
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Mariela Guadagnoli - Teachers Make a Difference - Ernesto Yaqüinto
Mariela Guadagnoli is an Argentine professor and architect.She was a top fifty finalist for the one million dollar Global Teaching Prize. She is an architect by profession, studied at the National University of Rosario , and teaches in...
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Mokhudu Machaba - Teachers Make a Difference - Ms. Sijeng
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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Karla Lizette Soto - Teachers Make a Difference - Ana Maria Hernández
Karla Lizette Soto is originally from Veracruz, Mexico. She teaches English at the Helen Doron Training Center in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura "The Hardest Part"
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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J. Cynthia McDermott - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Comisar
J. Cynthia McDermott is a retired professor of education at Antioch University Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy, Fulbright scholar at the University of Wroclaw Poland and...