In this video, the teacher explains the meaning of the idiom "to take someone under one's wing" using context clues. The teacher emphasizes that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the literal meaning of each word, but rather by...

Jerry Blumengarten taught for 32 years in the New York City school system.  Even though he was a licensed Social Studies teacher, he taught most subjects (Language Arts, Science, Math, Computers…) for grades 6-9. He wrote curriculum for...

Carlo Mazzone is a 2020 Global Teacher Prize top ten finalist. Carlo comes from an educational family: his father was a headmaster, and his mother and sister were both teachers. Carlo himself initially gained a degree in computer science...

The Restoration Planet team explores an environmental disaster very close to home, the Mount Polley tailings dam failure of August 2014. Turbidity is an intimate and poetic perspective on one of Canada's largest environmental disasters....

Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...

Born in Portland, OR, Dr. Derald Wing Sue is the son of parents who emigrated from China. Early childhood memories of being teased due to his ethnicity lead to his fascination with human behavior. His deep interest and passion led him to...

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...

The Mobile Area Education Foundation is designing lessons to teach kids that engineering and math can solve real-world problems...like designing ways to catch blood clots in a model human circulatory system.

Want more math video lessons? Visit my website to view all of my math videos organized by course, chapter and section. I make most of my math lessons in a live classroom and do no editing. I believe this gives the viewer an authentic...

Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, is a researcher, author, educator, and speaker. Freyd is the Founder and President of the Center for Institutional Courage, Professor Emerit of Psychology at the University of Oregon, and Faculty Affiliate of...

José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master's degree in...

Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is an international expert on the

pharmacological and...

We learning how to improvise dance! Do you get scurrrrred and stuck when your teacher mentions improv?! No stress my sweet babeh. I am here to give you tips and tricks for dance improv. This is your go to how to improv dance, okay?!...

At the age of seven, Sonia was already helping her teacher at school and teaching other girls in the street where she lived. Her vocation was again reinforced in adolescence, when she successfully mentored a classmate from South...

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, and raised in Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York City, Sean Frederick Forbes is the author of Providencia (2013). Sean identifies as Afro-Latino and connects to the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Recent poems...

Scott Hebert is a teacher in Fort Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a Top Fifty Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize.Scott began his career immediately out of university as an elementary Physical Education specialist for a school in Calgary,...

Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas are coauthors of Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being.Mark Minukas is the managing partner of Co-Creation Partners. An engineer by training, he...

Erin Hynes is Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction for the Sachem, NY School District.Mrs. Hynes has worked for the past nine years as the K-12 District Administrator for Curriculum in the Comsewogue School District,...

Elsa Elisabeth Jones is a Child Development Specialist and Advocate with 34 years

of broad-ranging experience. Ms. Jones is the Program Chair of Early Chil
dhood
Education and an Associate Professor at Post University. As...

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...

Erin Klein is an award winning educator, national keynote speaker, author, and mother who has been twice selected to serve on the Scholastic, Inc. Top Teaching Team based in New York. Her recent publication, Amazing Grades, was a...

Janel George is an Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy (REELP) Clinic. Her clinical projects and research focus on the development and implementation of legislative...

It’s official, October is Economic Education Month! If you are a student, consider creating an economics club at your school or lead an economics lesson/activity at your local elementary school or after school program (see activity ideas...

Alan Kay, is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with: the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National...