Wendy Kopp Quotes
Top 37 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wendy Kopp
Wendy Kopp Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Wendy Kopp on Wise Famous Quotes.
It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'
In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.
We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
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.
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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.
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
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.
In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.