Wendy Kopp
Wendy Kopp
Wendy Sue Koppis the CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries and the Founder of Teach For America, a national teaching corps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 June 1967
CountryUnited States of America
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.
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We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.
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We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
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We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.