Hip Hughes History
Why I Oppose EdReform
Common Core, rigor, accountability, testing, data driven instruction.... stop me if you are feeling queasy. As an experienced educator of 15 years I have seen my profession become something that I barely recognize and it makes me sad....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dennis Shirley - The Global Fourth WayThe Quest for Educational Excellence
Dr. Dennis Shirley is Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Educational Change, and Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Educational Change of the American...
Seven Dimensions
Creating a No-Blame Culture
In this video, employees discuss a major mistake in their press release regarding a community outreach program. The conversation highlights the need for accountability, effective communication, and a proactive approach to preventing...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Growth Slowdown is Coming
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital. Peter Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jane Chikapa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Malawi
Jane Chikapa is a top fifty Global Teacher Prize finalist. Jane teaches English in a secondary school located on the edge of Lake Malawi – an area where many people value working in the fishing business over the pursuit of education....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rebecca West - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Field and Anthony Pitt
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...
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Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz - Teacher as Interrupter
In courses such as The Teaching of Writing, Writing Non-Fiction, and Teaching English in Diverse Social/Cultural Contexts, Sealey-Ruiz, who started her career as a high school English teacher in 1993, seeks to “guide teachers in creating...
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Jeanette Deutermann - Long Island Opt-Out
Jeanette Deutermann is a Nassau County Long Island, parent of two children, ages 14 and 11, parent advocate and founder of Long Island Opt-Out. NYS Allies for Public Education are parents, educators and community members who firmly...
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Jacek Polubiec - Educational Leadership Innovation
Dr. Jacek Polubiec is an educational leader who has spent twenty years teaching and supervising urban schools. He holds Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from City College of New York, MA from Queens College, MS from the Principals Institute...
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Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel has research interests in personality structure, process, and development, and in self-regulation (aka willpower). His professional honors and awards include the following: National Academy of Sciences (elected 2004);...
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Meghana Musunuri - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - India
Social Studies, English and Mathematics teacher Meghana Musunuri from Hyderabad, India, is an education futurist, philanthropist and a passionate and prolific entrepreneur. She is Founder & Chairperson of Fountainhead Global School &...
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Rozanna Lilley - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Vivienne Kondos
Rozanna Lilley grew up in South Perth, the youngest of five children. Her parents – Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley – were both left wing radicals and writers. They moved to Sydney in Lilley’s last year of primary school. After school,...
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Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano at BLC14 - Globally Connected Learning
Filmed at Building Learning Communities 2014. Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano was born in Germany, raised in Argentina and lives now in the United States. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish with a Minor in International Studies and a...
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Deborah Meier - The Power of Their Ideas - AERO Conference 2015
Deborah Meier is currently senior scholar at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education She has spent more than four decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate, and ranks among the most...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Meghana Musunuri - Bringing India Together
Social Studies, English and Mathematics teacher Meghana Musunuri from Hyderabad, India, is an education futurist, philanthropist and a passionate and prolific entrepreneur. She is Founder & Chairperson of Fountainhead Global School &...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Evans Odei - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Ghana
Mathematics teacher Evans Odei from Achimota Senior High, Greater Accra, Ghana, has been teaching for 20 years with the Ghana Education Service, falling in love with the profession while at teacher training college. After teaching at...
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Gabriel McCormick - Humanizing Education #BLC15
The industrial factory model of education was designed to support a social and employment structure that no longer exists; yet we retain the trappings of this antiquated and inequitable system in our public schools. I want to solve this...
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Julian Vasquez Heilig - Community Based Education Reform
Julian Vasquez Heilig leads nearly 3,000 students, staff and faculty as the Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education. He is also a tenured professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. While at UK, the College of...
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Michael S. Roth - Intellectual Diversity in Dangerous Times
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...
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Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD - Neuropeptides & Kabbalah: Evolving Paradigms in Medicine and Healing
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...
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William Doyle - Teachers Make a Difference - My Parents, Leonard Bernstein & Heikki Happonen
William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar, a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, a Scholar in Residence and Lecturer on Media and Education at the University of Eastern Finland, and an award-winning, bestselling author and...
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Mike Klonsky - Teachers Make a Difference - My Influencers
Mike Klonsky is a retired educator, writer, school/community activist, BBall coach. He hosts a radio program Hitting Left on WLPN 105.5 FM Chicago. He became one of the leaders of the modern small schools movement. His academic work...
Financial Times
Singapore's classroom revolution brings work closer to schools
Singapore's students consistently come top in global rankings, but the city state's teaching style does not always equip pupils with the right skills for today's workplace. Reforms aim to align the classroom with the needs of employers.
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Jerry Blumengarten - Keeping Your Students on Track
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...