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Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

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

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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 teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

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Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.

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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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I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

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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.

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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: June 29th, 1967

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