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Checkout quotes by Wendy Kopp on Experience

• ‟ More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.

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• ‟ Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

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• ‟ In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.

  - Wendy Kopp