Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rebecca West - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Australia
Rebecca West was a top ten finalist for the 2021 Global Teacher Prize. Rebecca is also deputy principal at Bonnyrigg Public School, New South Wales, Australia, knew as soon as she entered a classroom as a student-teacher 22 years ago...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Noliwe Rooks - Cutting School Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
Noliwe Rooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by civic culture, social history and political life in the United States. She is the author of four books, the most recent...
Super Geek Heroes
Helpful People with Suzi Smiles
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of PSED. Suzi Smiles is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Suzi wakes up and opens her toy box. Inside she discovers lots of dressing up clothes and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jesse Turner - Critical Race Theory
Dr. Turner is the Director of the CCSU Literacy Center, and a Professor in the Department of Literacy Elementary, and Early Childhood Education. He is also the Co-Host of TEDxCCSU events, (2013-Present), the Co-Host of the Central...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marc Brackett - The Emotion Revolution
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...
Curated Video
Understanding Different Types of Survey Research
This video explains the different types of survey research and how to determine which type is being conducted. It covers descriptive research, which collects data at a single point in time; longitudinal studies, which examine the effects...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elizabeth Watts Bromery - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - USA
Elizabeth Watts Bromery, an English Professor at Broward County Public Schools, Florida, became an educator in 1990 as her parents raised her to equate education with social justice. She chose teaching to empower students to make...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jonathan Jansen - Lessons from South Africa
Jonathan Jansen is Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, the MS degree from Cornell University, and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Merrow - Addicted to Reform
John Merrow began his career as an education reporter with National Public Radio in 1974 and recently stepped down as President of Learning Matters, a non-profit production company in New York City. In 2012 he became the first journalist...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Matine Khalighi - Overcoming Student Homelessness
Matine Khalighi, a 19-year-old student from Colorado now studying at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Matine Khalighi’s interest in helping others began in middle school when he enrolled in a community service class to research a social...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD - Recovery from Lyme Disease
Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD, is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease, and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. He co-founded The New England...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Roth - Quiet Time Changes Lives
Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. Over the past forty-five years, Bob has taught Transcendental Meditation to many thousands of people, including billionaire CEOs, Hollywood...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Ingersoll - The Myth of Teacher Shortages
After teaching in both public and private schools for a number of years, Dr. Ingersoll obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. From 1995 to 2000 he was a faculty member in the Sociology Department at...
Boulder Creek International
Kansas City: The History of Racial Segregation and Disinvestment in Kansas City
Kansas City part 3/7: This video discusses the history of racial segregation in Kansas City, particularly in the 18th and Vine district. It explores the impact of discriminatory housing policies and the effects of integration on the...
Curated Video
Elaborating on Supporting Details with Anecdotes
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of elaborating on supporting details in persuasive writing. They discuss how elaboration helps the reader understand the argument and connect it back to the thesis statement. The teacher...
Financial Times
Mapping a way out of childhood obesity
Researchers are mapping local 'food environments' to show the relationship between income, where you live and obesity. The FT meets the people using this data to help change shopping and eating habits.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tanya K. Hernández- Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The Science of Implicit Bias...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jackie Gerstein - Moving Education from 1.0 to 3.0
Dr. Jackie Gerstein's byline is, "I don't do teaching for a living. I live teaching as my doing . . . and technology has amplified my passion for doing so." Gerstein has been teaching in-person and online for several decades. Currently...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ann Cook - New York Performance Standards Consortium
Ann Cook has been the co-director of Urban Academy since the school started in 1985, but she speaks proudly of her work as executive director of the New York Performance Standards Consortium. She says she is deeply involved with the...
US Department of Agriculture
Getting More Food From Local Farms To Schools
Getting more locally grown food to schools is the goal of USDA's Farm to School program.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Milton Chen - Teachers Make a Difference - Richard Panagos
Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and...
Healthcare Triage
Kids and Elmo and the Difficulty of Research
Nutrition research can be difficult, especially when kids, and Elmo, and careless research techniques ruin the outcome of the study. A study on kids' nutritional choices was recently retracted because there were problems with the data...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Glenn Kleiman - The Friday Institute
Dr. Glenn Kleiman is the Executive Director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and a Professor at the NC State University College of Education. A cognitive psychologist by background (Ph.D., Stanford, 1977), his work in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sylvia Martinez - Invent to Learn Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student-centered,...