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Timothy B. Tyson - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Martha Tyson & Mrs. Emily Montague

Higher Ed
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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Sheena Graham - "This World is Mine"

Higher Ed
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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Steven S. Rogers - Successful Black Entrepreneurs

Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video3:35
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Robert Cotto, Jr. - Perspective: School Board Member, Teacher, Parent

Higher Ed
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...
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Daniel Martinez HoSang - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Higher Ed
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...
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Fiona Giles - On Being a Feminist Writer

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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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Shane Strange "Apostles"

Higher Ed
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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Mags Webster "Nothing to Declare"

Higher Ed
Mags Webster is a poet, researcher, freelance writer and editor, whose poems, essays and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and America. In 2020 she completed a PhD in creative writing at...
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Mags Webster "My First Kiss"

Higher Ed
Mags Webster is a poet, researcher, freelance writer and editor, whose poems, essays and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and America. In 2020 she completed a PhD in creative writing at...
Instructional Video2:42
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Mags Webster "Digging Up Persephone"

Higher Ed
Mags Webster is a poet, researcher, freelance writer and editor, whose poems, essays and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and America. In 2020 she completed a PhD in creative writing at...
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John L. Stanizzi "Rosary"

Higher Ed
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
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Geoff Page "Codicil"

Higher Ed
Geoff Page grew up on the Clarence River in NSW and is based in Canberra. He has published twenty-five collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a...
Instructional Video1:58
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Nikki Moustaki - "For a Minute There, I Thought We Could've Been Happy" by Cathleen Chambless

Higher Ed
Nikki Moustaki, author of the memoir, The Bird Market of Paris (Henry Holt, 2015), holds an MA in poetry from New York University, an MFA in poetry from Indiana University, and an MFA in fiction from New York University, and has taught...
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Nancy Correa - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Nancy Correa is a poet and visual artist. She graduated with a BFA with a minor in Design from Paier College. She is a Traditional Chinese herbalist focusing on nonhuman animals. She rescues nonhuman animal victims from stockyards,...
Instructional Video1:40
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Dianne Bilyak "Untethered"

Higher Ed
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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Bill McKIbben - Teachers Make a Difference - Ray Karras

Higher Ed
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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Andrew Moffat - Teachers Make a Difference - Graham Penson

Higher Ed
Andrew Moffat MBE is Personal Development Lead at Excelsior Multi Academy Trust in Birmingham, England and the author of several books and educational resources, including the No Outsiders programme, an approach to teaching primary...
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Teachers Inspire Future Leaders

Higher Ed
Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. is the founder and chief executive officer of Revolutionary ED, LLC. He is a nationally recognized educational leader, antiracism activist, published author and college professor who unapologetically...
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Daniel A. Monti, MD, MBA Teachers Make a Difference - Mark Levine & Grandmother

Higher Ed
Dr. Monti is Founding Director and CEO of the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health and founding Chair of the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson...
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Denisha Jones, Ph.D, J.D. - Black Lives Matter at School

Higher Ed
Denisha Jones is the Director, Art of Teaching Program at Sarah Lawrence College. She earned a BS in Early Childhood Education and Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of the District of Columbia; PhD. in Curriculum...
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Rodney Robinson - Teachers Make a Difference - Calvin Sorrell

Higher Ed
Rodney has over 20 years experience as an educator with Richmond Public Schools. He graduated from King William High School in rural Virginia in 1996. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Virginia State University in 2000...
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Mark Tredinnick "Soft Bombs"

Higher Ed
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron...
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Laurel S. Peterson "The American with the Camera"

Higher Ed
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...