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Lanoke Intan Paradita - Teachers Make a Difference - Luluk Iswati & Hong Yi

Higher Ed
Lanoke Intan Paradita is an English Language Instructor at Pusat Pelatihan Bahasa UMY, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She studied English literature at Sanata Dharma University and went to SMU Tirtonirmolo.
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Kihyun Daniel Park - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Seo

Higher Ed
Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been...
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Nancy Correa "Sarah Undefeated"

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,...
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Nancy Correa "Invocation"

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,...
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Mayor Ras J. Baraka - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark.A native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 70 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to...
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Lily Brett "If We Could Stay"

Higher Ed
Lily Brett is an internationally acclaimed author of six novels, four collections of essays and nine volumes of poetry.

She has been the recipient of many literary awards including, the 1987 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award:...
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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura "Memorial"

Higher Ed
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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Katerine Franco-Cardenas -Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Colombia

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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...
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Robert McCaw - On Clerking for Justice Hugo L. Black

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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...
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Lynne Twist - Teachers Make a Difference - Buckminster Fuller

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:52
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J. Cynthia McDermott - The Foxfire Approach: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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...
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Jose A. Lovo - Building Quality Education

Higher Ed
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...
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Jim Forde - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Karly Meltzer

Higher Ed
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,...
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Robert Cotto, Jr. - School Funding Inequity

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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Kanchan Bhaskar - Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage

Higher Ed
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

Higher Ed
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...