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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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
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More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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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.