Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael Schnabel - Teachers Make a Difference - John Butaud
Michael Schnabel is the author of Daddy’s Girl, a memoir about the challenges and struggles of parenting through a medical crisis. A graduate of Northern State University Michael developed his passion for writing and story telling during...
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Jerry Mitchell - Mississippi Banned Books Festival
In more than three decades as a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, Jerry Mitchell’s stories helped put four Ku Klux Klan members and a suspected serial killer behind bars decades after they committed their crimes....
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Steven S. Rogers - Teachers Make a Difference
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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Maximilien Lambart - Teachers Make a Difference - M. De Chanteloup
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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Bradford Pearson - Teachers Make a Difference - Rem Briggs
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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David Zucchino - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Scott & Richard Cole
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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Ira Shor - Teachers Make a Difference - Harvey Goldberg & 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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Michelle D. Gladieux - Teachers Make a Difference - Rosemary Gladieux
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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Martha Hickson - Teachers Make a Difference - Sister Cyrnea & Laurie Hutton Corr
Martha Hickson has been a high school librarian since 2005. Her work has been featured in School Library Journal, Booklist, KnowledgeQuest, the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Blog, NJEA Review, and School Librarian’s...
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Colin Campbell - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Ira Harvaky
COLIN CAMPBELL is a writer and director for theater and film. The short film he wrote and directed with his beautiful and talented wife, Seraglio, was nominated for an Academy Award. Campbell teaches screenwriting at Chapman University...
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Laurel S. Peterson "Tug"
Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks: That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press (2009) and...
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Caridad Moro - "At Least I Didn't Rape You"
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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Kanshan Bhaskar - Teachers Make a Difference My Dad & Nicholas Pinchuck
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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Robert McCaw - Teachers Make a Difference - 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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Elissa Malespina - Teachers Make a Difference - Joyce Valenza
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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Jerry Mitchell - Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
In more than three decades as a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, Jerry Mitchell’s stories helped put four Ku Klux Klan members and a suspected serial killer behind bars decades after they committed their crimes....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Detra Price-Dennis - Teachers Make a Difference - Louise Gerald
Dr. Detra Price-Dennis is an Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the Communications, Media, Learning Technologies, and Design program....
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Tinna Björk Pálsdóttir - Teachers Make a Difference - Kjartan Stefánsson
Tinna Björk Pálsdóttir teaches in Hörðuvallaskóli, Reykjavík, Iceland. She studied Mechatronics engineering at the University of Iceland and the University of Southern Denmark. When she started teaching, she taught Danish (which is...
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Athriyana Pattiwael - Teachers Make a Difference - Grandmother & Ms. Irene Talakua
Athriyana Pattiwael is a faculty member at UKRIDA, Department of English Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Robert McCaw - On Being a Writer
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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Steven S. Rogers - A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
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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Stephen D. Krashen - Teachers Make a Difference - Victoria Fromkin and John Oller
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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David Zucchino - Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Colin Campbell - Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose
COLIN CAMPBELL is a writer and director for theater and film. The short film he wrote and directed with his beautiful and talented wife, Seraglio, was nominated for an Academy Award. Campbell teaches screenwriting at Chapman University...