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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Wendy Kopp

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Tags: world, better, well being

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Tags: america, working hard

About Author
Wendy Sue Kopp (born June 29, 1967) is 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 (TFA), a national teaching corps.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of...

Wendy Kopp

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of...

Tags: community, parents, american

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Wendy Kopp

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Tags: change, school, america

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

Wendy Kopp

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

Tags: technology, children

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

Wendy Kopp

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

Tags: time, short, child

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Wendy Kopp

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Tags: education, country, see

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

Wendy Kopp

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

Tags: school, political, higher

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Wendy Kopp

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Tags: opportunity, mission, teach

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

Wendy Kopp

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

Tags: america, think, development

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 advant...

Wendy Kopp

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 advant...

Tags: freedom, important, results

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nati...

Wendy Kopp

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nati...

Tags: alone, challenges, problems

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and moti...

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and moti...

Tags: success, perseverance

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Wendy Kopp

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Tags: work, education, hard work

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then...

Wendy Kopp

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then...

Tags: education, experience

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.

Wendy Kopp

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.

Tags: diversity, live, problem

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 teache...

Wendy Kopp

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 teache...

Tags: leadership, achievement

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.

Wendy Kopp

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.

Tags: money, process, think

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

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Tags: strong, support, management

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn ten...

Wendy Kopp

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn ten...

Tags: change, great, school