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Brainwaves Video Anthology
David Paul Kuhn - Teachers Make a Difference - Mike Chiaverina, Nicolet High School, Milwaukee, WI
David Paul Kuhn recalls his high school teacher, Mike Chiaverina, who sponsored the student newspaper and introduced him to journalism. Chevarina encouraged Kuhn’s independence and curiosity, giving him the freedom to pursue stories as...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kirsten Cuppen - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Jenniskens
After eight years teaching at a primary school and two years at a high school, Kirsten Cuppen currently works at an intermediate vocational college in the Netherlands that prepares trainees for jobs related to a specific trade or...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ann Sørum Michaelsen - Teachers Make a Difference - Svein Johansen
Ann S. Michaelsen, is an administrator, teacher and author of 2 books. She is currently working at Sandvika vgs, a high school in Norway.
Sandvika is a high school with 850 students in the age group 16 to 19. The school is...
Sandvika is a high school with 850 students in the age group 16 to 19. The school is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - Respecting the Humanity of Students
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ann Sørum Michaelsen - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Norway
Ann S. Michaelsen, is an administrator, teacher and author of 2 books. She is currently working at Sandvika vgs, a high school in Norway.
Sandvika is a high school with 850 students in the age group 16 to 19. The school is...
Sandvika is a high school with 850 students in the age group 16 to 19. The school is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kirsten Cuppen - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - The Netherlands
After eight years teaching at a primary school and two years at a high school, Kirsten Cuppen currently works at an intermediate vocational college in the Netherlands that prepares trainees for jobs related to a specific trade or...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christopher W. Albrecht - The Rediscovery of Hope and Purpose
Christopher Albrecht has been a teacher for over a quarter century. He spent the first three years of his career in New Martinsville, West Virginia. In his first year, Albrecht was named a Sallie Mae First Class National Teacher of the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Cara Fitzpatrick - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. McDermott
Cara Fitzpatrick is a Story Editor for Chalkbeat National and New York. She covered education at newspapers in Florida and won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2016 for a series about school segregation. The series also was...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael Roth - Legacy Admissions
Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael Roth - Teachers Make a Difference -Victor Gourevitch & Henry Abelove
Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal...
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...
Curated Video
Soldier’s Memory Lives On Through The Kick Of A Soccer Ball - Kicks For Nick
In the town of Wilton, Connecticut, soccer has made a huge impact. Sitting in the town center is a collection basket filled with soccer balls. These soccer balls will make a very unique journey around the world to reach the hands...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy Snyder - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Ralph Bender
Timothy Snyder is one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals, and enjoys perhaps greater prominence in Europe, the subject of most of his work. He is the Richard Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - Being Human as a Relationship
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - For 'Biola'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - 'The African Burial Ground' by Yusef Komunyakaa
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - Teachers Make a Difference
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - 'On The Pulse Of Morning' by Maya Angelou
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...
Reading Through History
George HW Bush Biography
The following is a short biography about the life of George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States. *** George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12th, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, but he lived most of his young life in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jonathan Zimmerman - Teachers Make a Difference
Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History and Director of the History of Education Program, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History of NYU's...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jonathan Zimmerman - Too Hot to Handle A Global History of Sex Education
Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History and Director of the History of Education Program, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History of NYU's...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Baer - Are You Creative
John Baer has been teaching at Rider since 1992. Before that he worked as a test developer and researcher at the Educational Testing Service (in Princeton, NJ); taught middle and high school and helped run a large gifted/talented...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jack Andraka - Breakthrough How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World
JACK ANDRAKA was just a fifteen year old Maryland high school sophomore when he invented an inexpensive early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. Now, at seventeen, Jack’s groundbreaking results have earned him...