Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kristin Henning - Teachers Make a Difference - Jean Koh Peters
Kristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law, where she and her law students represent youth accused of delinquency in Washington, DC. Kris was previously the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. Getting Into Good Trouble at School: A Guide To Building An Antiracist School System
Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. is the founder and chief executive officer of Revolutionary ED, LLC. He is a nationally recognized educational leader, antiracism activist, published author and college professor who unapologetically...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tedd Wakeman - Student Engagement Matters
An expert teacher at GameDesk’s PlayMaker School, Tedd Wakeman has been working with children in education, recreation, and research for two decades. He worked locally with LAUSD, teaching inner-city youth for 13 years, while...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - No Child Left Untested
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education (NPE). Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Hugo Maldonado Figueroa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Mexico
Hugo Maldonado Figueroa teaches at CBTis No.66, in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. He holds a BA in English Language by the Universidad Veracruzana. He has taught elementary to university levels in private and public institutions. He has been a...
Next Animation Studio
Realnetworks offer free facial recognition tech to US K-12 schools
Aimed at making schools in the U.S. safer, Realnetworks has announced that it will offer facial recognition technology to schools for free, Geekwire reports.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Askhat Zhumabekov - Teachers Make a Difference - Ms. Lyudmila Stepanovna
Physics teacher Askhat Zhumabekov, from Nazarbayev Intellectual school of Physics and Mathematics, Semey, Kazakhstan, is a progressive educator who advocates a global viewpoint and differentiated learning techniques for each of his...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
William Doyle - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Finland
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Van Hartmann "Fiddleheads"
Van Hartmann teaches English at Manhattanville College. He received an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a doctorate in English from UNC at Chapel Hill. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. His first...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Roberto Carlos Garcia - Elegy in the Key of Life
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Palma Garcia Hormigo - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Algeciras, Spain
Palma García Hormigo, Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain, is a title-holder and ambassador of the prestigious “Global Teacher Award”, which officially recognised her as being “one of the best teachers in the world” for her long-standing commitment...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kevin Krenitsky, M.D. - Teachers Make a Difference - Kenneth Wapnick
Kevin Krenitsky is a medical doctor and author of The Still Point. Despite leading a life deemed outwardly “successful”, he lived with a deep background of anxiety, fear, and stress that waxed and waned since early childhood. At the age...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Keisha McIntosh Allen - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Rue
Dr. Keisha McIntosh Allen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Allen’s research focuses on how issues of race, culture, and identity influence teaching and learning for...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Teachers Make a Difference: Ms. Thompson, Dr. Barksdale & Dr. Davis
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kevin Hancock - Teachers Make a Difference - Eugene Whitney
Kevin Hancock is an award-winning author and speaker. The CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and best known family businesses in America, he is a recipient of the Ed Muskie Access to Justice award, the Habitat for Humanity...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yuseva Ariyani Iswandari - Teachers Make a Difference - My Parents and Mr. J.B. Gunawan
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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
12 On Intellectual Pluralism
In late 2015, JW Mason and Arjun Jayadev went to speak with Axel Leijonhuvud, in retirement in Pismo Beach, to ask about his work and the intellectual paths not taken after 1968. Over a couple of days with him and his wife Earlene, they...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Van Hartmann "Shiva Dancing"
Van Hartmann teaches English at Manhattanville College. He received an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a doctorate in English from UNC at Chapel Hill. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. His first...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John L. Stanizzi Teachers Make a Difference - Theresa Vincenzo
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jamie Vander Broek - Teachers Make a Difference - Margaret Carroll
Jamie Vander Broek is a Librarian for Art & Design at the University of Michigan. This summer, she bought a book made of cheese for her library. You can read about it on saveur.com. She holds a tailored Master’s degree from the U-M...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jaekyung Lee - Teachers Make a Difference - Sookja Baek
Jaekyung Lee, PhD, is a professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Lee is an internationally recognized leader in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Erin Hynes - Teachers Make a Difference - Joseph Rella
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,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Avi Loeb - Extraterrestrial:The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Antonio Pérez Moreno - Teachers Make a Difference - Don Manuel Peña
Antonio Pérez Moreno is a Physics and Chemistry teacher at the Instituto de Educación Secundaria Ies Sierra Luna, Cádiz, Spain. Antonio began teaching support classes in primary and secondary school when he was studying Chemical Sciences...