Instructional Video6:04
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Patricia Russac - Video Journalism Engaging Students in Social Justice

Higher Ed
Patricia A. Russac is a teacher librarian with over seventeen years of experience at an independent, private elementary school in New York. She is a TED Educator, a PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator, and a National Association of...
Instructional Video5:14
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Lewis R. Gordon - Respecting the Humanity of Students

Higher Ed
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Instructional Video2:46
Curated Video

Adopted Daughter Inspires Mom’s Clean Water Campaign

3rd - Higher Ed
In 2008 Christine traveled to Ethiopia to adopt a little girl. When they arrived home, she found her new daughter drinking water from a puddle in their driveway. This raised a huge flag for Christine, realizing water used to be...
Instructional Video2:46
Curated Video

Adopted Daughter Inspires Mom’s Clean Water Campaign

3rd - Higher Ed
In 2008 Christine traveled to Ethiopia to adopt a little girl. When they arrived home, she found her new daughter drinking water from a puddle in their driveway. This raised a huge flag for Christine, realizing water used to be...
Instructional Video9:10
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Gary Orfield - The Civil Rights Project

Higher Ed
Gary Orfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Orfield's research interests are in the study of civil rights, education...
Instructional Video1:56
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Maggie Front - Teachers Make a Difference - Linda Dickerson

Higher Ed
Maggie Front is a graduate of the Global Competency Certificate program at Columbia Teachers College, where she was a member of the pilot cohort. She recently collaborated on a two-year Teacher Inquiry Project to pilot a middle school...
Instructional Video3:03
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Maggie Front - Restorative Justice

Higher Ed
Maggie Front is a graduate of the Global Competency Certificate program at Columbia Teachers College, where she was a member of the pilot cohort. She recently collaborated on a two-year Teacher Inquiry Project to pilot a middle school...
Instructional Video4:01
Big Think

Being black in the US vs the UK: There's a big difference | Alvin Hall

6th - 11th
New videos DAILYef='https://bigth.ink' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>DAILY Join Bidoersnk Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers...
Instructional Video1:00
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Patricia Russac - Teachers Make a Difference - Rosemary Welsh Teres

Higher Ed
Patricia A. Russac is a teacher librarian with over seventeen years of experience at an independent, private elementary school in New York. She is a TED Educator, a PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator, and a National Association of...
Instructional Video3:41
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Zorana Ivcevic - Managing the Creative Process

Higher Ed
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, received her Ph.D. from the University of...
Instructional Video4:35
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Emily Nusbaum - On Humor

Higher Ed
Emily C. Nusbaum, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is currently working on the Center’s Self-Regulation in Creativity project, funded by the Imagination Institute of the...
Instructional Video8:14
Curated Video

Foot Soldiers: A Nonprofit Founder Shares His Journey Through Entrepreneurship

Higher Ed
This video is a profile of Barnabas Shakur, the founder of Project Regeneration, a non-profit organization that provides at-risk youth in Brooklyn, New York with educational workshops, job training, and martial arts classes as an...
Instructional Video3:04
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Marc Brackett - The Emotion Revolution

Higher Ed
Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. His grant-funded research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision...
Instructional Video6:44
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Peggy Sheehy - WoW in School The Hero's Journey

Higher Ed
After a twenty-five year career as a professional vocalist, Peggy Sheehy received a BS in Musical Performance and Education from Empire State University. She began teaching in 1997 at Mt. Sinai Elementary School in Mt....
Instructional Video1:51
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Zorana Ivcevic - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, received her Ph.D. from the University of...
Instructional Video2:41
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Gary Orfield - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Gary Orfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Orfield's research interests are in the study of civil rights, education...
Instructional Video5:28
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Gary Orfield - School Integration

Higher Ed
Gary Orfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Orfield's research interests are in the study of civil rights, education...
Instructional Video6:29
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video7:58
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:23
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Teachers Make a Difference: Ms. Thompson, Dr. Barksdale & Dr. Davis

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:43
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Peggy Sheehy - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
After a twenty-five year career as a professional vocalist, Peggy Sheehy received a BS in Musical Performance and Education from Empire State University. She began teaching in 1997 at Mt. Sinai Elementary School in Mt....
Instructional Video5:20
NPR

A Few Things to Know About Why Treaties Matter | NPR

6th - 11th
The U.S. has ratified more than 370 treaties with American Indian nations. Yet many Americans know little about the these legally binding treaties, that shaped, and continue to impact, the country today. "They're not rights given to...
Instructional Video0:54
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Emily Nusbaum - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Emily C. Nusbaum, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is currently working on the Center’s Self-Regulation in Creativity project, funded by the Imagination Institute of the...
Instructional Video4:40
TED-Ed

What Is a Butt Tuba and Why Is it in Medieval Art?

9th - 12th Standards
Before picture books and animated videos, there were hand-copied manuscripts whose margins were filled with fantastic images. A short video examines the tradition of illuminating books and considers what some of the more bizarre images...