Brainwaves Video Anthology
Living a Purposeful Life: The Path of Purposeful Aging
Richard Leider, author of "Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? The Path of Purposeful Aging," explores the concept of transitioning from adulthood to elderhood with a focus on living a purposeful life. Through the lens of purpose,...
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Martha Hickson - The Right to Read
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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Bessy Reyna - Teachers Make a Difference
Bessy Reyna is the author of two bilingual books of poetry, The Battlefield of Your Body (Hill-Stead Museum, 2005) and Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover/ Memorias de la amante infiel (tunAstral, A.C., 2010, Toluca Mexico). A chapbook of...
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Tim Madigan I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers
In a journalism career spanning more than three decades, Tim has written for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Politico, Reader's Digest, and for thirty years the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tim's books include the critically acclaimed...
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Akash Patel - Global Citizenship
Akash Patel began his teaching career in very small rural communities in Oklahoma where people had never seen or met “a brown Indian guy who spoke five languages and had traveled to over 50 countries”. He used his travel experiences to...
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Ravi Shankar "Latin for Life"
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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Prince Olusegun Adeniyi - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Nigeria
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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Cara Erdheim Kilgallen - Humor in the Classroom
Cara Kilgallen earned her B.A. in English and Spanish from Colby College in 2001M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University in 2010.Cara is a professor at Sacred Heart University in the department of Languages and Literatures. Her teaching...
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Michael A. Pope - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Japan
Michael A. Pope works in Department of Defense schools for military families. He is a middle school educator at Zama Middle High School, Yamato, Japan, with multiple certification in middle school Science, History, Mathematics, Gifted...
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Alicia Ostriker "Ghazal: America the Beautiful"
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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Johnny E. Williams - White Supremacy
Johnny E. Williams is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi 2003) and Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Books 2016). The former book examines the...
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Armando Persico - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Italy
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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Jeffrey Remington - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Palmyra, Pennsylvania, USA
Jeff Remington is a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize and one of ten National STEM Teacher Ambassadors from a program administered by The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the National Council of Teachers of...
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Leslie T. Fenwick - Urban School Reform
Leslie T. Fenwick, PhD, is a nationally-known education policy and leadership studies scholar who served as Dean of the Howard University School of Education for nearly a decade. A former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Harvard...
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Susanna Camp - Teachers Make a Difference - Stacie Cassat Green
Susanna Camp is the Editor-in-Chief of SmartUp.life. A journalist specializing in emerging technology, she was an early team leader at Wired magazine, and has also been on the staff of Macworld, PCWorld and Outside magazines.-
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Keishia Thorpe - Teachers Make a Difference - John Messam
Keishia Thorpe is the 2021 Global Teacher Prize winner. Keishia teaches English to 12th-grade students who are English language learners at the International High School Langley Park, Bladensburg, Maryland, United States, a school where...
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Mohamed Mohtady Mohamed - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - United Arab Emirates
Mohamed Mohtady Mohamed is a top 50 Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize. He teaches boys from the sixth grade to the twelfth at a Anas Bin Al Nadr School in a remote area of Fujairah, UAE where there are many obstacles to effective...
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Julia Prendergast - Why Fiction Matters
Julia Prendergast’s novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat was published in 2018 (UWA Publishing: Australia). Her short stories feature in the current edition of Australian Short Stories. Other stories have been recognised and published:...
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Sanaz Fotouhi - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Gourlay
Sanaz Fotouhi was born in Iran soon after the revolution, during the Iran-Iraq war. Her father’s job as a banker took her and her family to many countries before she landed in Australia.She holds a PhD in Literature from the University...
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Bill McKibben - Third Act: Experienced People Working for a Fair and Stable Planet
Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more...
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Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
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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Minal Bopaiah - IDEA: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility
Minal Bopaiah is an 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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Keisha McIntosh Allen - Humanizing Education
Dr. Keisha McIntosh Allen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Allen’s research focuses on how issues of race, culture, and identity influence teaching and learning for...
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Sarah Donn - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Eugene, Oregon, USA
Sarah Donn is a 2nd grade teacher at Willagillespie Elementry Scool in Eugene, Oregon. She is proud and blessed to be a part of a strong, creative, supportive, and caring team. Her teammates and colleagues help her to be a better...