Instructional Video3:56
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Pat Mottola - Teachers Make a Difference - Will Hochman

Higher Ed
Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She also teaches art and poetry to senior citizens throughout Connecticut....
Instructional Video2:35
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Lewis R. Gordon - For 'Biola'

Higher Ed
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Instructional Video3:43
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Kenneth Ngwa - 'On Liberty and Slavery' by George Moses Horton

Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video3:01
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Joseph Ross - Teachers Make a Difference - Teresita Fay

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:08
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Edwina Trentham - Teachers Make a Difference - Tony Connor

Higher Ed
Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in May 2009. She has published poetry in a variety of...
Instructional Video2:40
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout' by Shel Silverstein

Higher Ed
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT by Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out. She'd wash the dishes...
Instructional Video5:20
Poetry Foundation

Chrysanthemum Tran reads "I Don't Even Like Sports"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Chrysanthemum Tran (she/they) reads her poem, “I Don't Even Like Sports
Instructional Video6:38
Oxford Comma

High School Favorite: Not Waving But Drowning

9th - 12th
As my school's senior English teacher I feel a personal, self inflicted pressure to convince my students that poetry has relevance and value in their lives. I want them to see that by reading and writing poetry they can share a part of...
Instructional Video2:19
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'Sick' by Shel Silverstein

Higher Ed
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Sick by Shel Silverstein "I cannot go to school today," Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a...
Instructional Video1:26
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Vivian Shipley - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Sue Walker

Higher Ed
Vivian Shipley is the author of several books of poetry, including All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2010), Greatest Hits: 1974–2010 (Pudding House Press, 2010), and Hardboot: Poems, New &...
Instructional Video3:33
Brainwaves Video Anthology

James Finnegan - Teachers Make a Difference - Howard Schwartz

Higher Ed
During his senior year in college as a business major, a course in creative writing changed James Finnegan’s life. Until that time, he had thought of poetry as a relatively antique art form. But an excellent teacher exposed him to the...
Instructional Video20:36
Religion for Breakfast

Is Marvel's Loki Accurate?

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode we examine the topic: Is Marvel's Loki Accurate?
Instructional Video1:23
The Kiboomers

Mary Had A Little Lamb | Nursery Rhymes | Children Songs | Baby Songs | The Kiboomers

Pre-K - K
MAY HAD A LITTLE LAMB LYRICS Mary had a little lamb, Little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb It's fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. It...
Instructional Video3:17
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz "Yolie's Return"

Higher Ed
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an award-winning Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on racial literacy in teacher education, Black girl literacies, and Black and Latinx male high school...
Instructional Video2:24
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Joseph Ross "Martin Luther King - Epilogue"

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:15
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bill Holmes "Legacy"

Higher Ed
Bill Holmes is a Philadelphia poet whose lifetime goal has been to become a successful writer and author. He is the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word CD Asphyxiation, and the newly released full-length poetry book...
Instructional Video6:57
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Randall Horton - Write and Wrong One Man's Journey

Higher Ed
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and, most recently, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is...
Podcast6:06
Good Words

Thinking Differently is Part of Autism

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Each year, thousands of children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. People with autism may learn, think, communicate, and behave in ways that are considered unorthodox, or different from what is traditionally expected. Rather...
Instructional Video3:10
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Pat McLean-Smith “My Gift”

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:15
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mercer Hall - Teachers Make a Difference - My 6th Grade English Teacher

Higher Ed
Mercer Hall has been teaching for over sixteen years at an independent school on Long Island, New York. He is a five-time honoree as Teacher Of The Year, and he has been awarded both the Thomas J. Reid Excellence In Teaching Award and...
Instructional Video1:26
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams'

Higher Ed
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving...
Instructional Video3:39
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'The Poet is Freed'

Higher Ed
Antoinette Brim, author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a...
Instructional Video2:14
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ravi Shankar "Carousel"

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video8:58
The Art Assignment

Do Not Try to Eat This

9th - 12th
Dada was a movement known for collage, upturned urinals, and its radicality--a reaction to the horrors of World War I. It was NOT known for its food, but in 1961 artist Man Ray offered this "Menu for a Dadaist Day," and we cooked it for...