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" Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs. "
Wendy Kopp
History
Learning
Rich
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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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Understanding
Diversity
Me
" The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. "
Wendy Kopp
Culture
Trying
Building
" Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students. "
Wendy Kopp
Dream
Education
Today
" People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people. "
Wendy Kopp
Born
Teachers
People
" Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite. "
Wendy Kopp
Gut
People
Some People
" Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. "
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Powerful
Education
Growth
" Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it. "
Wendy Kopp
America
Experience
People
" It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter. "
Wendy Kopp
Social Justice
Say
Justice
" We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week. "
Wendy Kopp
Week
Talk
Go
" 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. "
Wendy Kopp
Worth
You
Easy
" If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation. "
Wendy Kopp
Situation
Teachers
Reach
" 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. "
Wendy Kopp
Person
Train
People
" When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush. "
Wendy Kopp
You
Think
People
" I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist. "
Wendy Kopp
Admit
Hopeless
Optimist
" 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 accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement. "
Wendy Kopp
Run
Education
Experience
" 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 nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level. "
Wendy Kopp
Alone
Problems
Challenges
" I usually don't really have breakfast. "
Wendy Kopp
Really
Breakfast
" 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
Talent
Short
Time
" Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon. "
Wendy Kopp
Moon
Men
History
" 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
Teach
Opportunity
Mission
" 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?' "
Wendy Kopp
Living
Impact
Yourself
" Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way. "
Wendy Kopp
Space
Competition
Healthy
" 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
Up
Money
More
" You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. "
Wendy Kopp
Make A Difference
History
Day
" I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later. "
Wendy Kopp
Bed
Go
Wake Up
" Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools. "
Wendy Kopp
Teachers
Great
More
" 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. "
Wendy Kopp
Country
Size
Impact
" 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. "
Wendy Kopp
Results
Important
Freedom
" 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
Work
Leadership
Hard Work
" 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
Support
Mind
Strong