Instructional Video1:19
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David Paul Kuhn - Teachers Make a Difference - Mike Chiaverina, Nicolet High School, Milwaukee, WI

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:42
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Kirsten Cuppen - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Jenniskens

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:28
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Ann Sørum Michaelsen - Teachers Make a Difference - Svein Johansen

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:14
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Lewis R. Gordon - Respecting the Humanity of Students

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 Video6:59
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Ann Sørum Michaelsen - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Norway

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video7:47
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Kirsten Cuppen - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - The Netherlands

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:58
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Christopher W. Albrecht - The Rediscovery of Hope and Purpose

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:52
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Cara Fitzpatrick - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. McDermott

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:43
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Michael Roth - Legacy Admissions

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:43
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Michael Roth - Teachers Make a Difference -Victor Gourevitch & Henry Abelove

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:10
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Julian Vasquez Heilig - Teachers Make a Difference - Tom Heslop

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:19
Curated Video

Soldier’s Memory Lives On Through The Kick Of A Soccer Ball - Kicks For Nick

3rd - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:58
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Timothy Snyder - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Ralph Bender

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video8:26
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Lewis R. Gordon - Being Human as a Relationship

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 Video2:35
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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 Video3:08
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Lewis R. Gordon - 'The African Burial Ground' by Yusef Komunyakaa

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 Video3:12
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Lewis R. Gordon - Teachers Make a Difference

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 Video7:09
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Lewis R. Gordon - 'On The Pulse Of Morning' by Maya Angelou

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 Video8:48
Reading Through History

George HW Bush Biography

6th - 11th
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...
Instructional Video1:44
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Jonathan Zimmerman - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:13
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Jonathan Zimmerman - Too Hot to Handle A Global History of Sex Education

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:52
Reading Through History

History Brief: George Orwell

6th - 11th
The following video provides a brief biography of the author known as George Orwell, including his childhood, young adult life, and writing career. For an educational unit on Orwell, click hereref='http://bit.ly/2l2Ipage target='_blank'...
Instructional Video9:08
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John Baer - Are You Creative

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video8:38
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Jack Andraka - Breakthrough How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World

Higher Ed
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...