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We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
Charles Best
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We really are based on this idea that teachers have all this pent-up classroom expertise and that if we could just empower them to come up with micro-solutions, they're going to come up with smarter ideas than anybody would at the top.
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No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.
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I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper - literally - and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.
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Learning is a critical part of our mission and organizational culture.
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DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.
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People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
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We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.
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We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.
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It's hard to enlist the support of people you don't know, but it's critical to growing your career, finding new customers, and building out your team.
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Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.
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Whether you're saying 'thank you' to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.
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