Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat McLean-Smith - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Regina Jennings
Pat McLean-Smith, is a published poet and teaching artist. She is the author of two books of poetry and the recipient of several awards. Including 1st place for the Sonia Sanchez/Audre Lorde Poetry Competition, 2nd place for Judith Stark...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ed Ahern "Dear John"
Edward Ahern sometimes detours into literary fiction, but he's best known as a poet and innovative genre writer. He's tucked away several awards and honorable mentions for over two hundred poems and stories and four books. The poems and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Carlo Mazzone - Teachers Make a Difference
Carlo Mazzone is a 2020 Global Teacher Prize top ten finalist. Carlo comes from an educational family: his father was a headmaster, and his mother and sister were both teachers. Carlo himself initially gained a degree in computer science...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Adam F.C. Fletcher - Meaningful Student Involvement
Adam F.C. Fletcher is a writer, speaker and focused on human engagement, education transformation, and social change. Exciting, educating, and empowering are some of the words people have used to describe Adam F.C. Fletcher. A specialist...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jason Acosta - Who am I? The Role of Identity in Education
Jason Acosta attended DreamYard Preparatory High School in the Bronx where he received college advising support from one of New Settlement’s school based counselors.Upon graduating, Jason went to Marist College, where he majored in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herb Kohl - Social Justice
"Herb attended the Bronx High School of Science and studied philosophy and mathematics at Harvard from 1954-1958. At Harvard he was president of the Signet Society and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduating with an AB degree in 1958....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kirsten Olson - Wounded by School
Kirsten holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she focused on issues of social justice and educational policy, and an undergraduate degree in English literature from Vassar College. Kirsten is a member of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lily Brett - Cracked Dreams
Lily Brett is an internationally acclaimed author of six novels, four collections of essays and nine volumes of poetry. She has been the recipient of many literary awards including, the 1987 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award: C.J....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John L. Stanizzi "Wish at First Snow"
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
Esmeralda Gonzalez - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Mexico
Esmeralda Gonzalez is a graduate of the Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont Ferrand, France. She is a Professor at the Facultad de Idiomas UABC Mexicali. Esmeralda also teaches at Escuela Normal Estefania Castañeda.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pegi Deitz Shea "White Privilege"
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
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Maritza in the Street"
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born poet, translator, and educator. Her honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at The Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elisa Albo - "At Any Age"
Elisa Albo’s poetry chapbook Passage to America recounts her family immigrant story and Each Day More is a collection of elegies, both personal and public (Main Street Rag). Her narrative poems about family, food, and humanity are...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD - Teachers Make a Difference - Hannah, Eliana & Tovah
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
Todd S. Jokl - Teachers Make a Difference - Hayes Raffle
Todd S. Jokl is the dean of the College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology. Jokl holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, and a doctorate in education...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sumbul Ali-Karamali - Growing Up Muslim
Sumbul Ali-Karamali grew up in Southern California, answering questions about Islam. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a J. D. from the University of California at Davis, and a graduate degree in Islamic Law from the University...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Danielle McGuire - From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power - Part 1
Danielle McGuire, PhD, is an award-winning historian, public speaker and author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power...
The March of Time
Children in gifted class
MOT 1948: NEW YORK CITY: WS EXT Hunter College building. Hunter College sign. HUNTER COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE: INT Classroom w/ children in Art Class girl working w/ clay girl drawing w/ chalk on mural.
The March of Time
1952: AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN: VS Young elementary grade level school children, boys & girls, crossing street w/ traffic guard. VS Mother & daughter walking to school, waving goodbye. School day, education, learning
MOT 1952: AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN: VS Young elementary grade level school children, boys & girls, crossing street w/ traffic guard. VS Mother & daughter walking to school, waving goodbye. School day, education, learning
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Émile Le Menn - Teachers Make a Difference - Delphine Lebrun
Émile Le Menn is a French primary school teacher based in Paris. In 2017, in order to become a better teacher, he went on a trip around the world to discover innovative and alternative schools. This experience led to the book "L'Ecole...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Preston E. Green - Teachers Make a Difference - Fr. Joseph Brown
Preston Green is a professor of educational leadership and law at the University of Connecticut. At the University of Connecticut, Dr. Green helped develop the UCAPP Law Program, which enables participants to obtain a law degree and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pegi Deitz Shea "Jeanne Baret's First Voyage"
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
Pat McLean-Smith “A Conscious Encounter”
Pat McLean-Smith, is a published poet and teaching artist. She is the author of two books of poetry and the recipient of several awards. Including 1st place for the Sonia Sanchez/Audre Lorde Poetry Competition, 2nd place for Judith Stark...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dianne Bilyak "A Bell of Water, Ringing"
Dianne Bilyak is a Pushcart-prize nominated writer, graduate of the Institute of Sacred Music and Art, and Connecticut disability rights advocate. Her book of poems Against the Turning was published in 2011, and her work has also been...