National Youth Day South Africa | Education Matters | FuseSchool "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Sacrifices are made by the youth of our time. People lay down their lives...

Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she...

Manley is recognized as an award winning international keynote speaker, business leader, and author whose work has been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox, and in The New York Daily News, Entrepreneur, American Express Open Forum...

Erin Klein is an award winning educator, national keynote speaker, author, and mother who has been twice selected to serve on the Scholastic, Inc. Top Teaching Team based in New York. Her recent publication, Amazing Grades, was a...

Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark.A native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 70 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to...

Professor Harris has written for more than 50 publications over the past 25 years, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New Haven Register, Northeast Magazine, and USA Today. He currently writes a column for...

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...

Mike Klonsky is a retired educator, writer, school/community activist, BBall coach. He hosts a radio program Hitting Left on WLPN 105.5 FM Chicago. He became one of the leaders of the modern small schools movement. His academic work...

Leah Juelke is an teacher at Fargo South High School, North Dakota, in one of the largest English Language high school programs in her state. As a resettlement city, the majority of her students are refugees, who come from camps and...

Pupil outcome: I can engage with the plot of 'The Day the Crayons Quit'. Key learning points: - 'The Day the Crayons Quit' is a children's picture book. - The book is compiled of letters from the crayons to their owner, Duncan,...

Even as a child, Juline Anquetin Rault knew she wanted to become a teacher, but there was a time when she doubted whether her dream would come true. When she took the national exam to become a history and geography teacher, she ranked...

Adeola Adefemi is an award winning public school teacher with a passion for the promotion of quality education for children, especially the marginalized ones in her community.She is a Fulbright alumni, a certified Microsoft Innovative...

Steven Kolber was a top 50 finalist for the 2021 Global Teacher Prize. With parents who valued education, it was perhaps inevitable Melbourne English and history teacher Steven Kolber would enter the profession, which he credits with...

Donnie Piercey is the 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year and teaches fifth grade in Lexington, Kentucky. After graduating from Asbury College and earning his master’s from Auburn Montgomery, he has been teaching in Kentucky since...

From new shoes and clothes, to school supplies, a new backpack and more, kindergarten is a big day for children of all nationalities and backgrounds. In her debut book of the series, Nyla’s First Day of Kindergarten chronicles one little...

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, and raised in Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York City, Sean Frederick Forbes is the author of Providencia (2013). Sean identifies as Afro-Latino and connects to the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Recent poems...

Richard Blanco’s mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City, and eventually settled in...

Michael Gorman, is a graduate of Western Michigan University, Indiana University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has partnered with ISTE and various educational, governmental, and business organizations and foundations. He oversees...

A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day....

"Peter DeWitt (Ed.D.) is a former school principal in Upstate, NY, and he is now a Visible Learning trainer. Before becoming a principal he taught elementary school for eleven years. His syndicated blog Finding Common Ground is...

Jitu Brown, National Director of the Journey for Justice Alliance (J4J) is a long-time community organizer born on Chicago’s south side. He is a product of Chicago’s public school system and is a proud parent and husband. Jitu...

Jerry Mintz has been a leading voice in the alternative school movement for over 30 years. In addition to his seventeen years as a public and independent alternative school principal and teacher, he has also helped found more than...

Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...

This video features interviews from the Environmental Education 40th anniversary celebration in addition to Everglades nature and education program footage (8 min. with closed-captions).