American - Public | June 29, 1967 -
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
Wendy Kopp
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Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
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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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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.
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We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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