NEP Video Library
Welcome to NEP's Video Library. Video clips posted here are free for your use if you are an educator or educational support agency. If you want to use NEP videos for professional development purposes, but will not have internet access for your presentation, contact Mia Sanchez about getting these videos on DVD for a nominal charge.
VIGOR is BIGGER than RIGOR
NEP's Mark A. Thompson challenges conventional wisdom on the concept of rigor. He illustrates the differences between rigor and vigor, and outlines the components of vigorous instruction. This is a clarion call for educators to go for more and raise the bar to academic vigor. (Academic Vigor is the fifth of the 5 Keys for Successful Career Academies.)
Run Time - 9:48
NEP's Mark A. Thompson challenges conventional wisdom on the concept of rigor. He illustrates the differences between rigor and vigor, and outlines the components of vigorous instruction. This is a clarion call for educators to go for more and raise the bar to academic vigor. (Academic Vigor is the fifth of the 5 Keys for Successful Career Academies.)
Run Time - 9:48
A PAINFUL DISCOVERY
Take a poignant journey of introspection with Colorado Commissioner of Education, Dwight Jones. He tells how he expected to experience racism when he was named the first black principal of a high school. Where he found it surprised him.
Run Time - 5:13
Take a poignant journey of introspection with Colorado Commissioner of Education, Dwight Jones. He tells how he expected to experience racism when he was named the first black principal of a high school. Where he found it surprised him.
Run Time - 5:13
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Colorado Commissioner of Education, Dwight Jones, provides an amusing anecdote about an elementary school student who mistook him for a famous American he had been studying.
Run Time - 1:34
Colorado Commissioner of Education, Dwight Jones, provides an amusing anecdote about an elementary school student who mistook him for a famous American he had been studying.
Run Time - 1:34
.
.
.