Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching ‘One Day’ is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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.
Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
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.
Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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.
I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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.
School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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.
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness – we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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.
A core part of Teach For America’s mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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.
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.
Every time a child’s promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.