Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerold Zimmerman - Teachers Make a Difference - Bill Meckling
Jerold L. Zimmerman, Ph.D., is the author of Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters' Business Practices. He is a globally recognized microeconomist and author of seven books and has taught organizational economics, accounting, and finance...
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Minal Bopaiah - Teachers Make a Difference - Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Minal Bopaiah is author, speaker, and strategist committed to designing a more equitable world. With degrees in English, psychology, and organizational development, and a lifelong passion for diversity and inclusion, She has spent her...
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Christopher W. Albrecht - The Rediscovery of Hope and Purpose
Christopher Albrecht has been a teacher for over a quarter century. He spent the first three years of his career in New Martinsville, West Virginia. In his first year, Albrecht was named a Sallie Mae First Class National Teacher of the...
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Shane Strange - Respecting Indigenous People
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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Prince Olusegun Adeniyi - Teachers Make a Difference
Art teacher Olusegun Adeniyi, who teaches at Caleb British International School, Lagos, Nigeria, is not only renowned for bringing out the creative side of his fortunate students with two decades of nurturing new talent and creating...
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Ravi Shankar "The Great Sun"
Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...
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David Gillborn - Critical Race Theory
David is Professor of Critical Race Studies, editor-in-chief of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education and Director of Research in the School of EducationDavid’s research focuses on race inequalities in education, especially the role...
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Jim Lecinski - Teachers Make a Difference - D. Sudharshan
Jim Lecinski is a Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing at Kellogg where he teaches Marketing Strategy and Omni-Channel Marketing Distribution Strategy. He also teaches the core marketing course in Kellogg’s MBAi program. Prior to...
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Gary Peller - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Rudolf Makkreel
Gary Peller received his B.A. from Emory University and J.D. from Harvard University. After graduating from law school, where he served on the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize, Professor Peller clerked for the Honorable Morris...
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Robbie Bach - On Creativity
Robbie joined Microsoft in 1988. Over the next twenty-two years, he worked in various marketing and business management roles—including supporting the successful launch and expansion of Microsoft Office. As Chief Xbox Officer, he led the...
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Linah Anyango - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Kenya
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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Leah Juelke - Teachers Make a Difference - Gayle Hyde
Leah Juelke is an teacher at Fargo South High School, North Dakota, in one of the largest English Language high school programs in her state. As a resettlement city, the majority of her students are refugees, who come from camps and...
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Cynthia Owyoung - How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results
Cynthia Owyoung is vice president of inclusion, equity, and belonging at Robinhood, where she drives the company’s approach to enhancing its culture of diversity and inclusion. As the founder of Breaking Glass Forums, she develops...
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Camille Z. Charles - Racial Inequality
Camille Zubrinsky Charles is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Education, and the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author...
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Kirsten Cuppen - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Jenniskens
After eight years teaching at a primary school and two years at a high school, Kirsten Cuppen currently works at an intermediate vocational college in the Netherlands that prepares trainees for jobs related to a specific trade or...
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Richard Blanco - "El Americano in the Mirror"
Richard Blanco’s mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City, and eventually settled in Miami....
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Minal Bopaiah Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives
Minal Bopaiah is author, speaker, and strategist committed to designing a more equitable world. With degrees in English, psychology, and organizational development, and a lifelong passion for diversity and inclusion, She has spent her...
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Fiona Giles Teachers Make a Difference - Julia Kristeva
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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Bill Holmes "In the End"
Bill Holmes is a Philadelphia poet whose lifetime goal has been to become a successful writer and author. He is the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word CD Asphyxiation, and the newly released full-length poetry book...
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J. Cynthia McDermott - On Banned Books
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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Daniel Blanchard How to Become More Successful with Difficult Students
Dan Blanchard has done his homework. He’s been an inner-city school teacher and athletic coach for 20 years and has a passion for teaching, inspiring, and working with teens. “It’s tough for a lot of kids today. They don’t always have...
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Ama Mazama - "Sale" by Léon-Gontran Damas
Ama Mazama (aka Marie-Josée Cérol) is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs of the Department of Africa American Studies at Temple University. She received her PhD with highest distinction from La Sorbonne Nouvelle,...
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Alicia Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"
Alicia Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. Ostriker received a BA from Brandeis University in 1959 and an MA and PhD in literature, in 1961 and 1964 respectively, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She is the author...
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Suzanne Nossel - On Censorship and Banning Books
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...