Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ben Justice - Religion, Democracy and the American Public School
Dr. Justice is a historian who studies American education. He is Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration. His research is wide-ranging, from colonial times to present, engaging a variety of...
Economics Explained
The Economy of South Korea
South Korea, a highly-developed and wealthy economy that epitomizes the story of a modern Asian nation, has made the transition from a very poor to very rich in less than one life's generation. Today, the nation is a glistening beacon of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tanya Katerí Hernández - Teachers Make a Difference - Prof. Anani Dzidzienyo
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
Steven Kent Mirassou - Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine
Steven Kent Mirassou received his BA in American Literature from the George Washington University and his MA in Literature from NYU. He was born in the Salinas Valley and grew up in San Jose and Los Gatos before going east to college....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rozanna Lilley "Wedgwood"
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,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy Barile - The Walking Dead in the Classroom
Nancy Barile is a National Board Certified Teacher, who has been teaching English Language Arts at a low-income, urban high school near Boston, MA for 22 years. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Larry Ferlazzo - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - USA
Larry Ferlazzo is an award-winning English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif. He is the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, The ESL/ELL...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Blumengarten - Cybrary Man
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ewan McIntosh - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Scotland
Ewan McIntosh is the founder & CEO of NoTosh. Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, Ewan is the passionate and energising tour de force behind NoTosh. A highly-regarded keynote speaker at events around...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dennis Shirley - Transforming Education
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David Gillborn - Racism in Education
David is Professor of Critical Race Studies, editor-in-chief of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education and Director of Research in the School of EducationDavid’s research focuses on race inequalities in education, especially the role...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sigal Ben-Porath - Teachers Make a Difference - George Kateb
Dr. Ben-Porath received her doctorate in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000. She was awarded two successive Tel Aviv University President’s postdoctoral grants. In 2001-2004, she was a postdoctoral research associate...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karl Alexander - The Thurgood Marshall Alliance
Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Trust Mutekwa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Zimbabwe
Trust Mutekwa is a specialist teacher of children with visual impairment at St. Giles Special School in Harare, Zimbabwe, this is Trust’s nineteenth year as a teacher, and his eleventh year working with children who are disabled.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sean Frederick Forbes "Gnosis"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ravi Shankar "Sam the Super"
Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pegi Deitz Shea "Wasted Lives"
Pegi Deitz Shea is an award-winning author and poet for all ages. She is a writing instructor at The Mark Twain House & Museum, School Literary Presenter at Children's Books and the First Poet Laureate at Town of Vernon, CT. She studied...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Laurel S. Peterson - Teachers Make a Difference - Dan Masterson
Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks: That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press (2009) and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Julian Vasquez Heilig - Teachers Make a Difference - Tom Heslop
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José Gustavo Calderón De Anda - Teachers Make a Difference - Miss Maru
Gustavo is a Global Teacher Prize 2020 Top 50 Finalist. He is passionate about education, technology and innovation. At his School in the City of Guadalajara, México, he works on projects with disadvantaged communities who deal with very...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bella Mahaya Carter - Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? Finding Peace of Mind While You Write
Bella Mahaya Carter is the author of Where Do You Hang Your Hammock?: Finding Peace of Mind While You Write, Publish, and Promote Your Book. She is a creative writing teacher, empowerment coach, and speaker, and author of an...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yuseva Ariyani Iswandari - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Indonesia
Yuseva Ariyani Iswandari, S.Pd., M.Ed. is a Faculty member at English Language Education Study Program at Sanata Dharma University in Indonesia. Yuseva Ariyani Iswandari won a Fulbright Fellowship in 2019 to continue studying alternative...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lamees Gouda Ameen - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Egypt
Lamees Gouda Ameen is an English teacher at the Mostafa Kamel Official Language School in Banha, Qualubiya, Egypt. Lamees also works as a Teacher Educator for the British Council and is also an ICT Trainer, training teachers on how to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Joseph Ross "Nelson Mandela Speaks to Trayvon Martin"
Joseph Ross is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (forthcoming in 2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York...