Brainwaves Video Anthology
Enid Martinez - Teachers Make a Difference
Enid is a literacy consultant working with educators across the nation and the world to strengthen reading and writing instruction. Enid was a Senior Staff Developer for more than 10 years at the Teachers College Reading and Writing...
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Leisha Lucente - Passion Projects
Leisha Lucente is a 3rd year History teacher at Trailside Middle School in Ashburn, VA.
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Kenneth Ngwa - What We Can Learn from the Exodus Story
Dr. Ngwa is the Associate Professor of the Hebrew Bible at Drew Theological School. He holds a Ph.D. and a Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Master of Divinity from the faculty of Protestant Theology in Cameroon.
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Linda Hillringhouse - Teachers Make a Difference - Miss Kimble
Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...
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Alisha Collins - Teachers Make a Difference - Geetha Narayanan
Alisha is a designer and educator interested in exploring experiential and experimental ways of integrating storytelling, craft, wellness, play, and interactive technologies to create participatory learning practices. Her practice...
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Michelle Garnaut AO - Teachers Make a Difference - David Pittock
Michelle Garnaut began her career as one of China's most celebrated restaurateurs in 1989, when she opened M at the Fringe in Hong Kong. It swiftly grew into a city institution, and in 1999, M on the Bund opened, the first independent...
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Roberto Carlos Garcia - Teachers Make a Difference
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...
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Richard Leider - Teachers Make a Difference - Viktor Frankl
Richard Leider, founder of Inventure – The Purpose Company, is one of America’s preeminent executive-life coaches. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the “Top 5” most respected executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a “legend in...
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Özgür Akas - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Turkey
Özgür Akas is Head of Mathematics Department at Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey. Recognized globally for her pioneering work in innovation and educational technology, Özgür Akas has 27 years of experience in education as a Mathematics...
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Mirela Tanc - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Romania
English subtitles are available. Please click on closed captions (cc) for the translation.Mirela Tanc is a Romanian language and literature teacher born in Oradea, in a family of dedicated teachers. Her mother, Maria Ursu, a vocation...
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Mirela Tanc - Teachers Make a Difference - Rashmi Kathuria
English subtitles are available. Please click on closed captions (cc) for the translation.Mirela Tanc is a Romanian language and literature teacher born in Oradea, in a family of dedicated teachers. Her mother, Maria Ursu, a vocation...
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Mark Tredinnick "Lotus Pond"
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron Pretty...
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Mags Webster - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruth Mulliner
Mags Webster is a poet, researcher, freelance writer and editor, whose poems, essays and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and America. In 2020 she completed a PhD in creative writing at...
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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Cattleya Trianae in Seventh Grade Garden"
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...
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Hiba Ballout - Teachers Make a Difference - My Parents & Mrs. Prema
Hiba Ballout is Head of secondary cycle, Head of Science Department and a Biology Teacher at Saint Georges schools - Lebanon. Hiba is an Educator at Adyan Foundation for interfaith dialogue and coexistence. She is also an Advisor for...
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Donna Marie Merritt "Come"
Donna Marie Merritt is the author of seven books of poetry . . . Bible Poems for Reflection and Response (2020), No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk (2017), We Walk Together (2015), Her House and Other Poems, (2013), What’s...