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Laila Taik - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Casablanca, Morocco

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Laila Taik, an English teacher from Morocco and currently based in Brooklyn, New York, recounts her experience during the pandemic in 2020 when schools transitioned to remote learning. Facing challenges such as students' lack of access...
Instructional Video6:57
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Laila Taik - Teaching Arabic in America

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Laila Taik is an English teacher from Morocco working on sustainable development goals both with her students and her global colleagues. In this video, she shares her experience teaching Arabic to American students at Brooklyn, New York....
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Laila Taik - Teachers Make a Difference - Bouchaib Taik

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Laila Taik is an English teacher from Morocco working on sustainable development goals both with her students and her global colleagues. In this video, she reflects on various teachers who inspired her throughout her academic journey,...
Instructional Video3:21
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Stephanie Burt - Teachers Make a Difference - John Burghardt & Helen Vendler

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In this video, Stephanie Burt, a literary critic and poet at Harvard University, recounts how two influential teachers, John Burkhart and Helen Vendler, profoundly impacted her educational journey. John Burkhart, a high school English...
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Stephanie Burt - We Are Mermaids: Poems " "

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Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet at Harvard University. In this video, she introduces and reads a poem from her latest book "We Are Mermaids," which features a blend of imaginative elements with real-world identities. The...
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Stephanie Burt - Taylor Swift and Her World

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Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet at Harvard University. She is teaching a new course titled "Taylor Swift and Her World," which explores the literary art of songwriting through the lens of Taylor Swift's extensive and...
Instructional Video8:29
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Alex Kotlowitz - The Power of Storytelling

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For forty years, Alex Kotlowitz has been telling stories from the heart of America, deeply intimate tales of struggle and perseverance. He is the author of four books, including his most recent, An American Summer: Love and Death in...
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Cara Fitzpatrick - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. McDermott

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Cara Fitzpatrick is a Story Editor for Chalkbeat National and New York. She covered education at newspapers in Florida and won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2016 for a series about school segregation. The series also was...
Instructional Video7:48
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Yascha Mounk - The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

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Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values. Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received his BA in History from Trinity College Cambridge...
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Matthew Delmont - Teachers Make a Difference - Arthur Slaughter

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Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of four books: Black...
Instructional Video6:50
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Matthew Delmont - Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War ll

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Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of four books: Black...
Instructional Video10:11
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Cara Fitzpatrick - The Death of Public School

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Cara Fitzpatrick is a Story Editor for Chalkbeat National and New York. She covered education at newspapers in Florida and won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2016 for a series about school segregation. The series also was...
Instructional Video1:59
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Yascha Mounk - Teachers Make a Difference - Richard Serjeantson

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Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values. Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received his BA in History from Trinity College Cambridge...
Instructional Video4:50
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Yascha Mounk - Cultural Appropriation

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Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values. Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received his BA in History from Trinity College Cambridge...
Instructional Video9:18
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Yascha Mounk - The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

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Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values. Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received his BA in History from Trinity College Cambridge...
Instructional Video2:47
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Matthew Delmont - Beaumont to Detroit by Langston Hughes

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Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of four books: Black...
Instructional Video4:53
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Alex Kotlowitz - Teachers Make a Difference - Studs Terkel

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For forty years, Alex Kotlowitz has been telling stories from the heart of America, deeply intimate tales of struggle and perseverance. He is the author of four books, including his most recent, An American Summer: Love and Death in...
Instructional Video3:57
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Ray Sanchez - What Can We Learn from Mr. Rogers?

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Dr. Raymond Sanchez is superintendent of The Public Schools of the Tarrytowns. The school district serves approximately 2,800 students from the villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York. Dr. Sanchez has been an integral member of...
Instructional Video2:32
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Ray Sanchez - Teachers Make a Difference - Clemente Pestano and Dr. Robert Roelle

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Dr. Raymond Sanchez is superintendent of The Public Schools of the Tarrytowns. The school district serves approximately 2,800 students from the villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York. Dr. Sanchez has been an integral member of...
Instructional Video2:04
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Ray Sanchez - Building a Better Tomorrow

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Dr. Raymond Sanchez is superintendent of The Public Schools of the Tarrytowns. The school district serves approximately 2,800 students from the villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York. Dr. Sanchez has been an integral member of...
Instructional Video4:43
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Michael Roth - Legacy Admissions

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Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal education. A...
Instructional Video3:07
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Michael Roth - Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech ...

Higher Ed
Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal education. A...
Instructional Video5:17
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Glenn Robbins - The Mister Rogers Project: Getting to Know Your Neighborhood

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Glenn Robbins is the proud Superintendent at the Brigantine, NJ School District. His passion is harnessing a school culture that thrives on design thinking skills, innovative digital spaces, BYOD/1to1, and Makerspaces. In addition, Glenn...
Instructional Video2:45
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Glenn Robbins - Teachers Make a Difference - Brian Gibney & Bob Garguilo

Higher Ed
Glenn Robbins is the proud Superintendent at the Brigantine, NJ School District. His passion is harnessing a school culture that thrives on design thinking skills, innovative digital spaces, BYOD/1to1, and Makerspaces. In addition, Glenn...