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Todd Whitaker. Todd Whitaker is an American educator, writer, motivational speaker, educational consultant, and professor. A leading presenter in the field of education, Dr. Whitaker has published over 60 books on staff motivation, teacher leadership, technology, middle level practices, instructional improvement, and principal effectiveness, including the national best-seller, What Great ...
Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator.Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975.
[22] [26] Yogananda was the first Hindu teacher of yoga to spend a major portion of his life in America. [27] He lived in the United States from 1920 to 1952, interrupted by an extended trip abroad in 1935–1936, and through his disciples he developed various temples and meditation centers around the world. [28] [29]
“The next year, as I was still scribbling my own stories, my English teacher (bless you, Mrs. Jacobsen!) introduced me to the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien,” the biography read.
Babar Ali (born 18 March 1993) is a teacher from Murshidabad in West Bengal. He was called the "youngest headmaster in the world" by BBC in October 2009, at the age of sixteen. He had begun teaching at nine years of age, mostly as a game, and then decided to continue teaching other children at a larger scale. [3]
Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. [1] At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma , an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. [ 2 ]
Sharon Christa Corrigan was born on September 2, 1948, in Boston as the oldest of the five children of accountant Edward Christopher Corrigan (1922–1990), who was of English and Irish descent; [5] and Grace Mary Corrigan (née George; 1924–2018), a substitute teacher, [6] [7] [8] whose father was of Lebanese Maronite descent. [5]
House in Madanapalle, in which Krishnamurti was born Krishnamurti in 1910. The date of birth of Krishnamurti is a matter of dispute. Mary Lutyens determines it to be 11 May 1895, [2] but Christine Williams notes the unreliability of birth registrations in that period and that statements claiming dates ranging from 4 May 1895 to 25 May 1896 exist.