Podcast appearances and mentions of Wendy Kopp

There are very different ways of 'doing' education all around the world and my guest this week has spent many years exploring and deeply understanding many of them. As Alex Beard highlights in this conversation really powerfully, "does the purpose match the how or the process?" And how does this align with the values of the communities involved? When there is so much ideological warfare and polarisation around, we need more wise voices like Alex who are deeply expert and evidence-based but also oriented strongly around values and purpose.After starting out as a teacher in a London comprehensive, Alex did his MA at the IOE before joining Teach For All, a growing network of independent organizations working in sixty countries to ensure that every child has access to an excellent education. while building collective leadership and driving systemic changes from within and outside of the education sector. He is the Senior Director at Teach for All (https://teachforall.org/) and leads the Global Learning Lab supporting a global network of leaders working to drive systemic change in the fields of social innovation, school leadership, teacher training and policy-making. He has written extensively about his experiences in search of the practices that will shape the future of learning in publications such as the Guardian, Financial Times and Wired. He is the author of Natural Born Learners: Our incredible capacity to learn and how we can harness it, published in 2018 and he wrote and presented The Learning Revolution, a three part series on the future of education for BBC Radio 4 (2020). I've also had the privilege of chatting to Wendy Kopp, Alex's colleague and founderand CEO of Teach for All in episode 79 so do also check that one out!Alex's website: https://www.alexbeard.org/The Learning Revolution documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h93c/episodes/playerThe Missing Piece report: https://teachforall.org/MissingPieceBriefSocial LinksLinkedIn: @alex-beard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-beard-08901915/

There are few men politically or intellectually smarter than President Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary Robert McNamara. So how did LBJ and McNamara screw up America's involvement in Vietnam so tragically? According to Peter Osnos, the author of LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail, it might have been because the two men were, in their own quite different ways, too smart. For Osnos - a legendary figure in American publishing who, amongst many other things, edited Donald Trump's Art of the Deal - the catastrophe of America's war in Vietnam is a parable about imperial hubris and overreach. According to Osnos, who has access to much previously unpublished material from McNamara, The Best and the Brightest orchestrated the worst and dumbest episode in American foreign policy. Peter Osnos began his journalism career in 1965 as an assistant to I. F. .Stone on his weekly newsletter. Between 1966–1984 Osnos was a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and served as the newspaper's foreign and national editor. From 1984-1996 he was Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Senior Editor at Random House and Publisher of Random House's Times Books division. In 1997, he founded PublicAffairs. He served as Publisher and CEO until 2005, and was a consulting editor until 2020 when he and his wife, Susan Sherer Osnos, launched Platform Books LLC. Among the authors he has published and/or edited are — former President Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, Gen. Wesley Clark, Clark Clifford, former President Bill Clinton, Paul Farmer, Earvin (Magic) Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Sam Donaldson, Kenneth Feinberg, Annette Gordon Reed, Meg Greenfield, Dorothy Height, Don Hewitt, Molly Ivins, Vernon Jordan, Ward Just, Stanley Karnow, Wendy Kopp, Charles Krauthammer, Brian Lamb, Jim Lehrer, Scott McClellan, Robert McNamara, Charles Morris, Peggy Noonan, William Novak, Roger Mudd. Former President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Nancy Reagan, Andy Rooney, Morley Safer, Natan Sharansky, George Soros, Susan Swain, President Donald Trump, Paul Volcker, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Nobel peace prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, as well as journalists from America's leading publications and prominent scholars. Osnos has also been a commentator and host for National Public Radio and a contributor to publications including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. He wrote the Platform column for the Century Foundation, the Daily Beast and The Atlantic.com from 2006-2014. He has also served as Chair of the Trade Division of the Association of American Publishers and on the board of Human Rights Watch. From 2005-2009, he was executive director of The Caravan Project, funded by the MacArthur and Carnegie Foundations, which developed a plan for multi-platform publishing of books. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review from  2007-2012. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Brandeis and Columbia Universities. He lives in New York City, with his wife Susan, a consultant to human rights and philanthropic organizations. His children are Evan L.R. Osnos and Katherine Sanford. There are five grandchildren.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In this conversation, Aldo interviews Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America and Teach for All, discussing her journey in Education Reform.   Wendy shares her motivations for starting Teach for America, the impact of two-year teaching commitments, and the global expansion of her initiatives. The conversation also touches on the challenges of education in crisis situations, the role of social media in mobilizing for social good, and the concept of human flourishing in education. Wendy reflects on her experiences and the importance of collective leadership in fostering change.   Takeaways Wendy Kopp'ss journey began with a thesis idea that evolved into a lifelong commitment to education. The initial recruitment efforts for Teach for America highlighted the disparity in how society values teaching compared to corporate careers. The two-year commitment model has proven effective in creating long-term change makers in education. Teach for All was established to facilitate global learning and collaboration among independent organizations in different countries. Local organizations play a crucial role in responding to educational crises, especially in conflict zones. Social media is a tool, but personal relationships remain essential for mobilizing young leaders for education. Human flourishing in education encompasses agency, self-awareness, empathy, and critical thinking skills. Wendy emphasizes the importance of understanding the pressures faced by future leaders in education. The concept of collective leadership is vital for fostering change within organizations and communities. Wendy's reflections on her journey highlight the fulfillment derived from being part of a global community committed to education. You can find out more about Wendy's incredible work here: https://teachforall.org 

Teach For America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp visits Google for a conversation with former Google vice president Sheryl Sandberg. From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In this Talk, she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools. Originally published in October 2006. Visit http://youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle/ to watch the video.

Join Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach for All, as she shares her inspiring journey and vision for global education reform. In this episode, Wendy discusses:The Birth of Teach for All: From a compelling idea at Princeton to a global network transforming education in 62 countries.The Battle for Equity: Mobilizing leaders to address systemic inequities in marginalized communities.AI in Education: Using technology to democratize learning and enhance educational outcomes.Explore how prioritizing education can reshape our future through collective leadership and social change. Don't miss this thought-provoking conversation!Hosts:Jason RaznickSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-raz-report/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join us in this round table conversation with education giants: Wendy Kopp, Cindy Mi, and Dr. Shannon May as we explore the potential impact of AI on teaching and learning globally.    Aldo's guests discuss the importance of embracing AI with care and highlight the need for governments and education systems to take a proactive approach in adopting it. The panel also discusses the potential benefits and concerns of AI in education, including issues around equity and quality.    Listen in to this conversation recorded for WISE11 in Doha that emphasizes the integration and collaboration of various stakeholders, including teachers, governments, and Edtech companies, to ensure the safe, responsible and effective use of AI.   Takeaways: Embrace AI with care, considering its potential benefits and concerns. Governments and education systems should take a proactive approach in adopting AI. Integration and collaboration among stakeholders are crucial for the responsible and effective use of AI in education. AI has the potential to empower teachers and improve learning outcomes. Wendy Kopp is the founder of Teach for All: https://teachforall.org/ Cindy Mi is the founder of VIPKid: https://www.vipkid.com/teach Dr. Shannon May is the founder and CEO of Newglobe: https://newglobe.education   This Episode is made in partnership with:    Cold Case Inc (use the code MESSY and get an exclusive 15% discount): https://bit.ly/3HN75PD Riverside (get a 20% discount by signing up via this link): https://bit.ly/3HCU4IC Preworn: Get a 25% discount using the code MESSY25: https://bit.ly/49bEXlD The Code Zone: https://bit.ly/3UlspmU

Register for the WISE 11 Summit - Doha, Qatar (28-29 Nov 2023): https://www.wise-qatar.org/wise-11/ As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in history, “learning poverty”—the percentage of 10-year-olds unable to read and understand a simple written text—has increased to 70%, according to the World Bank. And on top of that, we have constantly been hearing the word ‘reform' quite a lot especially since the pandemic. A growing consensus that emphasizes the need for educaiton systems to not only prioritize academic skills, but teach students how to navigate uncertainty and change. In a world where educational landscapes are increasingly complex and challenging, a pivotal question arises: Is collective leadership the key to building a path towards systemic change in education? Does there need to be a more unified effort to achieve these changes, and how do we go about that? To answer these questions, we are honored to have Wendy Kopp, Founder & CEO of Teach For All and 2021 WISE Prize for Education Laureate, as our guest. Wendy's vision of leadership aligns seamlessly with these emerging trends. In this episode, Host of this episode Aurelio Amaral talks to Wendy on redefining education leadership in the face of current challenges and opportunities. They will delve into perspectives on equipping students for an ever-changing future, the importance of unlearning outdated mindsets, and the role of technology in education. Read our latest report on collaborative leadership in education: https://www.wise-qatar.org/collaborative-leadership-report-2023/ Subscribe to WISE On Air: https://pod.link/wiseonair Learn more about Teach For All: https://teachforall.org

Paul's guest on this episode is Wendy Kopp. Wendy is the CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 60 countries across every region of the world that are working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America – which has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity in the United States. She led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy has been recognized with numerous awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.

When she was an undergrad at Princeton, she launched a revolution in education with Teach for America, a way to help children in under-served neighborhoods get a good education. With Teach for All, her mission has gone international. In time for a new school year, we revisit this inspiring episode with Wendy Kopp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you a curious leader?   For this Women of Color Rise episode, Analiza talks with African American leader Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder and CEO of Braven. Braven works to ensure underrepresented college students develop the skills, confidence, experiences and networks to get strong first jobs after graduation. Aimée spent the majority of her career at Teach For America leading the organization's groundbreaking work around its human capital and diversity efforts. After graduating from Mt. Holyoke College, she taught sixth grade and led the Breakthrough New Orleans site. She is a 2019 Obama Foundation Fellow, Pahara-Aspen fellow, and lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.   While Aimée did not set out to become CEO, one of the keys to ascent was her curiosity. She was curious about the problems around her: how to make her Breakthrough local site one of the most effective sites in the country, how to scale best practices to all sites, how to address Teach for America's diversity problem, and how to help underrepresented college students thrive at their first job. She even applied curiosity to her personal life - setting an intention to find a partner who was mature enough to know themselves and plan out how to set up childcare so that she could continue to rise in her career.   In Women of Color Rise, we talk about the importance of Knowing Yourself, knowing what gives you energy and surrounding yourself with people with shared values. Aimée is a great example of this - she did not have a set career path, and instead stayed open and curious following what excited her and the “gray” stretch opportunities with people she admired like Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO of Teach for America.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://analizawolf.com/ep-31-be-curious-with-aimee-eubanks-davis-ceo-braven

In this Daybreak episode, Head Podcast Editor Hope Perry sits down with Wendy Kopp '89 to discuss her senior thesis, which formed the initial idea for Teach for America, as well as criticisms of the organization.Print VersionAssociated Press Article

Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America – which has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity for children in the United States – for 24 years. Wendy led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy is the author of A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All (2011) and One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (2000). She holds honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Wise Prize for Education (2021), Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2008) and the Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award (2003). Wendy holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and resides in New York City with her husband and their four children. In the news Quartz, “The World in 50 Years” Diplomatic Courier, “To Remake the World, Let's Rethink Education” NPR's How I Built This With Guy Raz, “Teach For America: Wendy Kopp” The Wall Street Journal, “Copying Singapore's math homework” TIME, “How to help national school systems succeed” The Economist, “High fliers in the classroom” Financial Times, “Philanthropy must shift its focus to the global education crisis” World Economic Forum, “Why it's time for International Development to Put People First” Social Links LinkedIn: @wendy-kopp Twitter: @wendykopp

Wendy Kopp is the founder of Teach for All - an international network placing graduates and professionals in schools and communities where they're needed most. Established over 30 years ago, there are currently more than 15,000 teachers in the midst of their initial two year teaching placement - reaching more than a million students in 60 countries, including in New Zealand. Wendy Kopp is the author of two books, holds honorary doctorates from 15 universities, and has been named among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, recorded LIVE & in person from the 2021 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), YOUR guest is Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach For All & The 2021 #WISEPrize for Education Recipient, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, aka THE Voice of Education, & this is all brought to YOU by WISE! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Learn more about what others are saying about their EdUp experience ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● YOU can follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank YOU for listening! We make education YOUR business!

Yesterday, President Biden spoke on the omicron variant, and last week, the 2022 Baccalaureate speaker was announced.Here's the link for on-campus booster shots and here's the 'Prince' piece about 2022 Baccalaureate speaker Wendy Kopp. 

"It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should." - Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for All Good ideas are a dime a dozen. So what separates the ideas that stay on the shelf from the ones that succeed? That's the topic we explore in this quick episode. Take a listen and let me know what you think.  Enjoy! Have a question? Text me 1-206-309-5177
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Our conversation series with the Yidan Prize Foundation Council of Luminaries continues as Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For All, joins Homeroom with Sal to talk about creating equitable classrooms for students all over the world. Streamed live on September 15, 2021. See the original livestream on YouTube. For more information visit: https://keeplearning.khanacademy.org Khan Academy […]

Welcome to the fifth episode of "The Art and Science of Success." This is part two of our interview with retired Brig General Tom Kolditz, executive director of the Anne and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice U in Houston, Texas.In this episode, Tom continues with his advice and experience for leading people out of lockdown. We start with Tom's research on perhaps the biggest issue in leadership today - cowardice - caused by excessive self interest. He gets into how he developed a truly amazing team and has an extraordinarily simply policy for increasing the likelihood of a successful hire. He also talk about psychological safety and how he creates it (and sometimes fails to). And how he has created a mentoring network for himself and the institute. Hope you enjoy it.Here's the detail of the interview.2.10 – The number one leadership problem? Cowardice (defined as excessive self interest) instead of courage– why leaders do bad things and what we can do about it. 5.30 – How Tom applies service to others in his role developing leaders.8.56 – Arizona Airspeed parachute team – from the best individuals to the best team7.16 – How can you get your people to commit to serving/helping the organisation first?10.00- What qualities should you look for when recruiting people?15.30 – Perhaps the funniest and most useful test for recruiting top team players to your team!16.40 – Psychological Safety – how to create it (and how not to).23.20 – Addressing bullying and harassment – fulfilling the leader's duty.27.15 – how Tom's Institute is turning “competitors” into collaborators. More and better leaders- everywhere.30.30 – The Extraordinary Board of the Institute including Klaus Schwab, Jim Collins, Colin Powell, Al Gore, and Wendy Kopp.35.00 – Creating a demand for your services – how students are now coming to Rice for the leadership.38.00 – Why are you optimistic about the future?42.00 - What advice do you have for people working in an unsupportive or toxic environment?44.00 - Focus on contribution as seen through the people you impact. Hope you enjoy it.

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Not every platform turns into a flywheel for scale. Wendy Kopp founded two networks that each became flywheels for change: Teach for America and Teach for All, where she's currently CEO. Yet the shape of the two networks are surprisingly different. While they both feed similar goals – helping educators find what they need, share what they learn, build enthusiasm, and motivate talent – the two organizations operate under different rules and assumptions. Kopp's journey illuminates how listening, adjusting, and open rethinking are key to building a network that thrives. And how hard-won lessons can produce extraordinary impact.Read a transcript of this interview at: mastersofscale.comSubscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtX

“Father, my life is in your hands.” pleaded the young 18 year old girl to the principal of St. Xavier's College Mumbai. She begged him that she be admitted 3 months after all admissions were closed.     She was born in Mumbai, in circumstances of privilege, and had lived in 5 different countries already by that age. She had come to India for a couple weeks to meet her grandparents during the summer break. However, a chance encounter with some street children at a traffic light in Mumbai, stirred her heart deeply, and she decided she had to stay back.     As destiny willed, the principal agreed and the girl stayed back. Her work since last 30 years and counting, has led to two phenomenal institutions -- Akanksha Foundation and TeachForIndia.    This is the story of Shaheen Mistri, a story of dreams, hope and magic. She founded the first Akanksha (meaning aspiration) Center in 1989, enrolling 15 children and employing college friends as volunteers. The center eventually evolved into the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit project that provides after-school (and school) tutoring to children from low-income communities. Over the past 30 years, the Akanksha Foundation has expanded to 9,800 children in 21 schools across Mumbai and Pune. As the recognition of Akanksha’s work grew, Shaheen saw an opportunity to expand her reach even further and work for more transformative changes when she met Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America. Along with five colleagues, Shaheen launched Teach For India in 2008. In last 13 years, more than 120,000 among India’s brightest and promising youth have applied for the 2 year fellowship program. 3,400+ Fellows have spent 2 years of their life teaching in low income schools across India. Directly, they have impacted 1million+ children and the Fellow Alumni base through their subsequent initiatives, reaches an estimated 33million children (1 in every 10 children in India).   Shaheen has also created projects like the Maya Musical, the Kid's Education Revolution which explore student leadership, creating platforms for student voice and partnership, and TFIx, which is a year-long incubator program for passionate entrepreneurs who are willing to adapt Teach For India’s model to their context and region in rural areas. Seeing the stark inequities due to difference of opportunity everyday, has led Shaheen to seed this huge movement and yet has also brought her humility. “It taught me that there really is very little that you can change. But it also taught me at the same time that what I really can change is myself and there is a lot of power in doing that.  And there is a ripple effect.”  As she set-out as a teacher, some of her most transformative life- lessons came from her children, like Lateef who taught her about depth of human generosity. In between all the compelling responsibilities of strategy, funding, talent management, etc. that come with building and managing organization of such scale, the most important thing for Shaheen still remains staying close to children. “What do children need? What can we do to support their dreams, hope and magic” is a question which she holds closest to her heart.  Her vision for education is one where children are not only provided quality education, but we create “safe spaces for their voice” by deeply listening to them, to engage “kids and educators as partners” by seeing them as equals and ultimately, to support young “kids as change-makers” to help them rise to their potential in service to the society. That way, instead of seeing a seemingly impossible task ahead of educating 320 million Indian children, she sees it as a magical opportunity of 320 million partners to create the “greatest show on Earth”.  In this long and audacious movement, Shaheen wisely remarks that the biggest challenges are not funding, staff etc, but we ourselves. “Inner work is most challenging in staying on the path. External challenges are always there. As you solve a few, more and more will keep coming. To keep going, to find the strength and love in my heart a little bit better each day is the bigger challenge.”   For this inner work, she emphasizes on the importance of little things to transform ourselves and to keep love at the centre of leadership. “If we are grounded in love, we can figure out the rest” whether it is quietly arranging everyone’s slippers outside a classroom or whether it is mobilizing a country to transform education.   Shaheen is an Ashoka Fellow (2001), a Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum (2002), and an Asia Society 21 Leader (2006).  Recently, she was awarded the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for promoting Gandhian values, community service and social development.  Shaheen also serves on the board of Akanksha Foundation and Museum of Solutions (advisory board). She is the author of the book, Redrawing India and the Miss Muglee Children's Books. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and a Master’s Degree from the University of Manchester. Also see, 5 questions we asked Shaheen. 

“Father, my life is in your hands.” pleaded the young 18 year old girl to the principal of St. Xavier's College Mumbai. She begged him that she be admitted 3 months after all admissions were closed.     She was born in Mumbai, in circumstances of privilege, and had lived in 5 different countries already by that age. She had come to India for a couple weeks to meet her grandparents during the summer break. However, a chance encounter with some street children at a traffic light in Mumbai, stirred her heart deeply, and she decided she had to stay back.     As destiny willed, the principal agreed and the girl stayed back. Her work since last 30 years and counting, has led to two phenomenal institutions -- Akanksha Foundation and TeachForIndia.    This is the story of Shaheen Mistri, a story of dreams, hope and magic. She founded the first Akanksha (meaning aspiration) Center in 1989, enrolling 15 children and employing college friends as volunteers. The center eventually evolved into the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit project that provides after-school (and school) tutoring to children from low-income communities. Over the past 30 years, the Akanksha Foundation has expanded to 9,800 children in 21 schools across Mumbai and Pune. As the recognition of Akanksha’s work grew, Shaheen saw an opportunity to expand her reach even further and work for more transformative changes when she met Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America. Along with five colleagues, Shaheen launched Teach For India in 2008. In last 13 years, more than 120,000 among India’s brightest and promising youth have applied for the 2 year fellowship program. 3,400+ Fellows have spent 2 years of their life teaching in low income schools across India. Directly, they have impacted 1million+ children and the Fellow Alumni base through their subsequent initiatives, reaches an estimated 33million children (1 in every 10 children in India).   Shaheen has also created projects like the Maya Musical, the Kid's Education Revolution which explore student leadership, creating platforms for student voice and partnership, and TFIx, which is a year-long incubator program for passionate entrepreneurs who are willing to adapt Teach For India’s model to their context and region in rural areas. Seeing the stark inequities due to difference of opportunity everyday, has led Shaheen to seed this huge movement and yet has also brought her humility. “It taught me that there really is very little that you can change. But it also taught me at the same time that what I really can change is myself and there is a lot of power in doing that.  And there is a ripple effect.”  As she set-out as a teacher, some of her most transformative life- lessons came from her children, like Lateef who taught her about depth of human generosity. In between all the compelling responsibilities of strategy, funding, talent management, etc. that come with building and managing organization of such scale, the most important thing for Shaheen still remains staying close to children. “What do children need? What can we do to support their dreams, hope and magic” is a question which she holds closest to her heart.  Her vision for education is one where children are not only provided quality education, but we create “safe spaces for their voice” by deeply listening to them, to engage “kids and educators as partners” by seeing them as equals and ultimately, to support young “kids as change-makers” to help them rise to their potential in service to the society. That way, instead of seeing a seemingly impossible task ahead of educating 320 million Indian children, she sees it as a magical opportunity of 320 million partners to create the “greatest show on Earth”.  In this long and audacious movement, Shaheen wisely remarks that the biggest challenges are not funding, staff etc, but we ourselves. “Inner work is most challenging in staying on the path. External challenges are always there. As you solve a few, more and more will keep coming. To keep going, to find the strength and love in my heart a little bit better each day is the bigger challenge.”   For this inner work, she emphasizes on the importance of little things to transform ourselves and to keep love at the centre of leadership. “If we are grounded in love, we can figure out the rest” whether it is quietly arranging everyone’s slippers outside a classroom or whether it is mobilizing a country to transform education.   Shaheen is an Ashoka Fellow (2001), a Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum (2002), and an Asia Society 21 Leader (2006).  Recently, she was awarded the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for promoting Gandhian values, community service and social development.  Shaheen also serves on the board of Akanksha Foundation and Museum of Solutions (advisory board). She is the author of the book, Redrawing India and the Miss Muglee Children's Books. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and a Master’s Degree from the University of Manchester. Also see, 5 questions we asked Shaheen. 

Text LEARNERS to 44222 for more... Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Twitter/IG: @RyanHawk12 Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations that are developing collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Today, more than 6,000 Teach For America corps members—outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic disciplines—are in the midst of two-year teaching commitments in over 50 urban and rural regions. Notes: Jim Collins called Wendy “my entrepreneur for this decade.” He continued, “Her organization is truly an entrepreneurial creation that is out to utterly transform education. It’s taking an entrepreneurial, let’s-do-something approach to tackling a massive social problem.” Goal setting: It’s all about setting a goal that’s at the right intersection of ambitious and feasible. The #1 responsibility of a leader is to catalyze a clear and shared vision for the company and secure commitment to and vigorous pursuit of that vision. The differentiator is the “first WHO” principle. It’s what she’s learned. What is it that drives system change in education? “Jim thinks it’s the answer in corporate America, I think it is the difference in social change.” Wendy grew up in a bubble in Texas. She didn't realize the inequity and disadvantages to children born in different situations. At the end of her college years at Princeton, she wrote a 100+ page thesis. She narrowed down to 30 pages... And created a four page plan. She mailed her thesis to 30 executives in an effort to spread awareness and raise money  Everywhere she went, people said, "This is a great idea but college kids won't do this." Wendy was steadfast in her belief that they would... After the first year, Wendy found herself on stage speaking to 500 "Teach For America" teachers... The benefit of naivete: "The world needs you before you become jaded by your experience."  "We need leaders to channel their energy in marginalized communities." What was the key to the first year growth? "It helped writing a plan. I sent 100 letters to potential donors and got rejected or ignored by 98 of them." You have to persevere and have conviction for the idea. Leadership - An idea that magnetizes people. People were drawn to Wendy's mission and purpose. Strategic Framework - What is your core purpose? The core values are what brings people together. Create a sense of mission - "You need to enable a diverse group of people. Articulate it and make it possible for others to engage." Recruit people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Diversity is very important. Why did Wendy do this instead of take a job that would pay well? "I knew myself well. I knew that whatever I did, I would throw myself at it 24/7. I wanted to have a bigger impact on the world." "What keeps me at it? I started gaining the sense of responsibility for so many others." How Teach For America helped Washington D.C. "I met with so many civic leaders who said, 'We've tried everything and it won't work.' DC was 2 years behind Harlem from an educational perspective with their public schools." Washington DC was completely transformed by Teach For America and now has one of the better public school districts in America. How is she so humble? "I realize we're going to get so much wrong." Must learn from what goes wrong and improve moving forward What are some "must-have" leadership qualities? Look at what people have accomplished How have you managed through challenges? People who are passionate about the purpose People who live into the values Optimism Commitment to diversity and inclusiveness What's currently exciting? Seeing the leadership effects in others from Pakistan to Peru The power of locally rooted leadership Commonalities of leader who sustain excellence: Put impact first... Ahead of career ambitions Solve problems Perseverance Optimism Humility - Constantly learning Act on conviction What does Wendy do for fun? Runs and listens to books while running. Which books? Human Kind by Rutger Bregman Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux Life advice: "Solve as early as possible." "Do not put off your passion until after you've had a job for a few years." "Don't think you have to start something new." Look for others who are doing it and join them...

Text LEARNERS to 44222 for more details... Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Jim Collins books include Good to Great, the #1 bestseller, which examines why some companies make the leap and others don’t; the enduring classic Built to Last, which discovers why some companies remain visionary for generations; How the Mighty Fall, which delves into how once-great companies can self-destruct; and Great by Choice, which uncovers the leadership behaviors for thriving in chaos and uncertainty. Jim has also published two monographs that extend the ideas in his primary books: Good to Great and the Social Sectors and Turning the Flywheel. His most recent publication is BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0), an ambitious upgrade of his very first book; it returns Jim to his original focus on small, entrepreneurial companies and honors his coauthor and mentor Bill Lazier. Notes: What Exactly is Leadership?” “True leadership only exists if people follow when they would otherwise have the freedom to not follow.” Many business leaders think they are leading when in fact they’re simply exercising power, and they might discover to their horror that no one would follow them if they had no power. General Colin Powell said, “In my 35 years of service, I don’t ever recall telling anyone, ‘That’s an order.” “Leadership is the art of getting people to want to do what must be done.” When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, one of the first people he called was Jim Collins. Jim asked Steve,“what did you first build upon to emerge from the darkness? What gave you hope?” Steve was talking with perhaps the greatest product visionary of our time.. so he expected him to talk about operating systems or the Macintosh computer or other product ideas.  But he didn’t. What did he talk about? People. "It was all about the WHO." History is the “study of surprises.” There will be no “new normal,” there will only be a continuous series of “not normal” episodes, defying predictions and unforeseen by most of us until they happen. This is why we double down on the “first who” principle. Track the number 1 metric: some say sales or profitability or cash flow or something about products. But there’s one metric that towers above them all that’s rarely spoken about in meetings. And that is: The percentage of key seats on the bus filled with the right people  for those seats. How to know when to shift from “develop” to “replace?” Jim has distilled years of reflection down to 7 questions that he offers to stimulate your thinking when you face the “develop or replace” conundrum.  Are you beginning to lose other people by keeping this person in the seat? Do you have a values problem, a will problem, or a skills problem? What’s the person's relationship to the window and the mirror? Does the person see the work as a job or a responsibility? Has your confidence in the person gone up or down in the last year? Do you have a bus problem or a seat problem? How would you feel if the person quit? Jim spent time at West Point as the Chair for the Study of Leadership… One of they key things he learned from that time was the importance of focusing on your unit and taking care of your people, not your career… “The key to a leader’s impact is sincerity. Before he can inspire with emotion he must be swayed by it himself. Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself believe.” - Winston Churchill Kroger made the leap because they became fanatical about getting the right people in the right seats A key position at your company does the following: Has hiring responsibility A failure by them could expose the company to disaster Their performance has an outsized impact on the business as a whole The Personal Hedgehog Concept You love to do the work You're doing something you're wired for The market will pay you for it Great success in life is when you have people in key seats that fit their hedgehog When analyzing if a person should remain on the team, ask, "What is the person's relationship with the window or the mirror?" We want people who have a tremendous capacity to grow. Be a growth machine. An example of a world-class leader? Wendy Kopp, 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. "Wendy had no power and not much charisma, and yet she got hundreds of thousands of people to sign up and do work that is not fun." That's leadership. "Leadership is the art of getting people to want to do what must be done." The #1 responsibility of a leader is to catalyze a clear and shared vision for the company and secure commitment to and vigorous pursuit of that vision. From Jim, "I'm more of a teacher than a leader. What's my leadership artistry? Trust." Ann Mulcahy saved Xerox. She kept getting promoted... When asked how she earned those promotions, Anne said, "I tried to make my mini-bus a sparkling pocket of greatness." They came to her and said, "We want you to drive the whole bus."

Wendy Kopp had an idea.  She wanted to borrow a tactic from other industries: if she could convince students fresh out of college to commit to teaching for two years in communities that desperately needed teachers, she could really make an impact in education and broaden the perspectives of the young adults before they move into their planned careers.  Thus, Teach for America was born.  Today, Wendy has broadened her goals, and co-founded Teach for All to impact education worldwide.Wendy shares how her parents' commitment to her education impacted her, and how local communities — not necessary federal governments — are at the core of driving change.Related ContentTeach for AllTeach for America2020 Bush Center Forum on Leadership

DeRay, De'Ara, Sam, and Kaya share their thankfulness affirmations for 2020. DeRay sits down with Vanita Gupta to discuss the Justice Department and the continuing fight to protect democracy. Then, Kaya chats with Wendy Kopp, the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, regarding the long list of issues facing teachers and students across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Podcast: Pod Save the People (LS 76 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Listen To Yourself (with Vanita Gupta & Wendy Kopp)Pub date: 2020-12-01DeRay, De'Ara, Sam, and Kaya share their thankfulness affirmations for 2020. DeRay sits down with Vanita Gupta to discuss the Justice Department and the continuing fight to protect democracy. Then, Kaya chats with Wendy Kopp, the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, regarding the long list of issues facing teachers and students across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crooked Media, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

On today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs, about the recent news that Bertelsmann, the parent of Penguin Random House, will purchase Simon & Schuster and why this does not mean the Amazonization of the publishing industry. Between 1966-1984 Peter Osnos was a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and served as the newspaper's foreign and national editor. From 1984-1996 he was Vice President, Associate Publisher and senior editor at Random House and publisher of Random House's Times Books division. In 1997, he founded PublicAffairs, an imprint of the Hachette Brook Group specializing in books of journalism, history, biography and social criticism. He served as Publisher and CEO until 2005. Among the authors he has published and or edited are; former President Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, Gen. Wesley Clark, Clark Clifford, former President Bill Clinton, Sam Donaldson, Dorothy Height, Molly Ivins, Vernon Jordan, Stanley Karnow, Wendy Kopp, Jim Lehrer, Scott McClellan, Robert McNamara, Charles Morris, Peggy Noonan, Barack Obama, Tip O’Neill, Nancy Reagan, Andy Rooney, Morley Safer, Natan Sharansky, George Soros, Donald Trump, Paul Volcker, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Muhammad Yunus, as well as journalists from America’s leading publications and prominent scholars. Osnos has also been a commentator and host for National Public Radio and a contributor to publications including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and The New Republic.  He has also served as Chair of the Trade Division of the Association of American Publishers and on the board of the Human Rights Watch. He was executive director of The Caravan Project, funded by the MacArthur and Carnegie Foundations, which developed a plan for multi-platform publishing of books. He was Vice Chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Chicago News Cooperative and is active in a number of other journalism and human rights organizations. He writes a regular column called Peter Osnos' Platform on Medium.com. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Brandeis and Columbia Universities. He lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife Susan, a consultant to human rights and philanthropic organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our second Overwrite event featured David Rogier, CEO & Co-founder of Masterclass, and Wendy Kopp, CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All, and tackle the lessons we have learned about how we learn in these unprecedented times. And then we have a special bonus conversation with Josie Jeffies, Design Director at Slack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We share a conversation with Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, and Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, from EdoBEST in Nigeria, about their experiences and ideas on how best to manage and ensure at-scale education response and recovery interventions. Educators, leaders, and parents globally have the responsibility of what seems like an impossible task: To replicate the functions of school for months without a physical classroom or playground. The importance of local leadership from educators as well as innovation around learning with a focus on equity is paramount. In this episode, we talk to two education leaders about their experience and ideas on how best to manage and ensure at-scale education response and recovery interventions.

As schools closed across the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education systems were forced to come face to face with the limitations of traditional schooling. In all sectors, technology picked up the slack when physical work environments became unfeasible, and education was no exception – technologies that were previously relegated to the fringes of pedagogical practice suddenly became the only way teaching and learning could take place. Coronavirus has rapidly accelerated society’s increasing reliance on technology, and any sector entrenched too deeply in the old industrial work organisation risks getting left behind. Is education one of them? Has the crisis exposed ways in which education simply isn’t up to date with the modern world? To discuss this, we caught up via teleconference with Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, Roberto Benes, Director of Generation Unlimited, and Andreas Schleicher, Director of the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills.

Growing out of Teach For America’s commitment to improving educational equity for students in the United States, Teach For All is a global network dedicated to expanding educational opportunities for children. Wendy Kopp, the founder of both organizations, has spent the last three decades working to eliminate systemic inequities in education.

Listen to our conversation with Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, a global network of nonprofit organizations with the aim to increase access to equitable education.

We are absolutely bursting with excitement to share the latest conversation on our TGOW podcast show. We welcomed the accomplished Noorain Khan recently. She is a director in the Ford foundation’s Office of the President where she oversees grantmaking from the foundation’s Reserves Fund and leads cross-foundation strategic projects and initiatives that emerge from the president’s priorities. Before joining Ford in 2015, Noorain was chief of staff to Wendy Kopp, CEO, and co-founder of Teach for All and the founder of Teach for America. Noorain has received the George Parkin Service Award for outstanding contributions to the Rhodes Trust and was honored by Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality with its Distinguished Alumna Award. She appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Law and Policy in 2014 and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Noorain earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, where she was a PD Soros Fellow; an MPhil in migration studies from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar; and her bachelor’s degree from Rice University.

Daniel Oscar: educator, nonprofit exec, marathoner. Listen in to Daniel's gems of wisdom for staying the course in the nonprofit world. Daniel helped Wendy Kopp build Teach for America and has been in various roles in the nonprofit/education reform sector since then. He shares his tips on how to run the marathon and not the sprint, how to prioritize self-care and his best advice to young people starting out in nonprofit. My favorite takeaway: focus on being helpful instead of being right. For more about Daniel and Center for Supportive Schools, check it out here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nonprofitlowdown/support

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.   Eve Picker: Hey, everyone, this is Eve Picker, and if you listen to this podcast series, you're going to learn how to make some change. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.    Eve Picker: Hi there.  Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.  My guest today is Laura Callanan, The founding partner of Upstart Co-Labs. Upstart believes that creative people solve problems. It is disrupting how creativity is funded by connecting impact investing to the creative economy.  One way the creative economy drives impact is in communities. Laura brings a powerful background to Upstart Co-Lab.  Just a few of her many past roles include serving as senior deputy chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts;  consultant with McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office and associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation  Be sure to go to evepicker dot com to find out more about Laura on the shownotes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, SmallChange.   Eve Picker: Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Laura on the Show Notes page for this episode and be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.   Eve Picker: Hi, Laura. It's really a pleasure to have you here. Thank you for joining me. I've come to know you through your most recent enterprise, Upstart Co-Lab, where you're a founding partner. I'm wondering if you could just tell us a little bit about Upstart's mission and goals?   Laura Callanan: So Upstart Co-Lab is a field builder, a catalyst, a connector. We are connecting impact investing to the creative economy. We know that creative people solve problems. Like all entrepreneurs, they need capital to do it. Most creative entrepreneurs are very socially minded. Artists care about the human condition and that extends to the work they do through an enterprise model. So, the capital that fits them best is social capital, impact capital. Upstart Co-Lab is trying to unleash more of that impact investment capital for the creative economy.   Eve Picker: That's great. How do you propose to accomplish that? I know you have a few different strategies you've been working on, but I'd love to hear more.   Laura Callanan: Well, from the beginning, we realized that what we were doing for the creative sector, in a lot of ways, followed on from what leaders had done around gender lens investing, so we went to the mothers of gender lens investing, and we said, "How did you do it? How did you take this idea, and, in a pretty short period of time, it really infused the notion of gender lens throughout the impact investing space?" They said it was a three-part recipe: make the case, build the coalition, and bring investable products to market. So, that's what we've tried to do.   Laura Callanan: We have undertaken research to get facts, and case studies, and examples in hand to be able to really articulate the opportunity for investors and the demand for capital in the creative sector to really represent that case. We have shared what we've learned through the research published on our website, through opinion pieces in the Financial Times and other publications, in conference panels and keynote talks. We've been trying to get these ideas out into the world. That's how we've done the first step.   Laura Callanan: Building the coalition, we have been working with strategic partners from the very beginning. We've taken an approach of being small, nimble, spunky; trying to take our ideas and work with much larger, older, better-established partners to get the idea of the potential for the creative economy to make change and do good, infused into the work of community development - finance institutions, impact platforms, like CapShift, and Small Change, your own platform, and work with partners who can help us make these changes happen quickly.    Laura Callanan: We've also been building relationships on the investor side. Through a number of conversations in small and large meetings, we've really started to build this community of impact investors who recognize the power of art, and design, and culture, and heritage, and creativity to drive change. We have recently re-oriented our approach to what we're calling Upstart 2.0, and we're really going to focus on building a member community of the ambassadors, the evangelists who - as donor-advised funds, as private foundations, as endowed cultural institutions - want to take these ideas back to their peer group.   Laura Callanan: Then, the third step - bring investable products to market - our greatest example of that to date is work that we did with the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) to launch a New York City Inclusive Creative Economy Fund. This is working with the oldest and largest national community development finance institutions, harnessing the power of their AA rating; harnessing their ability to underwrite and manage loans to real estate projects - in this case, affordable workspace for multi-tenant creative economy businesses.   Laura Callanan: We've found this to be really exciting, because we set out to raise $5 million of impact capital for the New York City Inclusive Creative Economy Fund. We closed the fund after about six months, having raised $6.2 million [cross talk] all Foundation that capital is fully deployed. We're talking with LISC now about what a $100 million National Inclusive Creative Economy Fund could be [cross talk] That's been our approach: make the case, build the coalition, and bring investable products to market to make it easier for investors to deploy their capital.   Eve Picker: I think you must be a very focused person not to get distracted, because that's ... You make it sound easy, but it's pretty big. I'm very familiar with LISC; one of our would-be issuers on Small Change actually tried to use that program. She didn't end up being able to buy the building, but it was that program that would have made it possible for her. That's pretty great. How do you think that LISC might expand that? Are you talking to them about expansion?   Laura Callanan: As I said, the national fund is in the works, so let's just wait and see when that's ready to be announced.   Eve Picker: Okay, very good. I have to backtrack a little bit and say, why is all of this important to you, personally?   Laura Callanan: I majored in theater in college. I started my career working in the arts. My husband, my late husband, was a playwright and a novelist. So, in my personal life, I've always had a connection to creative people and the work that they do. I guess, now about eight or nine years ago, I had a lunch with a guy named Jim Howden, a founding artistic director of an off-Broadway theatre company in New York, Signature Theatre Company. And I at that point, I'd known Jim for about 20 years. I had known him from the very first days at the very beginning of his founding Signature Theatre Company.   Laura Callanan: We were having a lunch, and catching up, and he was talking to me about the $70 million Signature Theatre Company had raised in a public-private partnership to create a new three-theatre complex in West 42nd Street in the Times Square area. He was talking about how that new space would allow Signature Theatre to expand their programming. He reiterated the commitment to be sure that every ticket for every play was affordably priced at about $25. He was just describing all of the vision and what was going to happen next.   Laura Callanan: The architect on the project was Frank Gehry. They were designing a 7,500-square-foot open lobby space that would be a community center ... A community green in the middle of Hell's Kitchen was how Jim talked about it. He was just describing all of these plans. I knew where this company had started. The budget for their first year with $30,000. They were in a borrowed space way downtown. Things had not always been smooth and easy. They had made a commitment to equity and access from the early days. I knew that it had not been a smooth trajectory, but here was Jim talking about what was happening next.   Laura Callanan: It was at a moment that I was working at McKinsey & Company in the social sector office. I was in the middle of an engagement with the school foundation, so I was thinking a lot about social entrepreneurship. I heard these words coming out of my mouth. I said, "Jim, you're what they call a social entrepreneur, but nobody calls you that because you're working in the arts and you don't call yourself that because you're working in the arts. But take it from me. I am a highly paid McKinsey consultant. I know this stuff, and this is what you are."   Laura Callanan: I left the lunch really scratching my head and thinking, if this guy were not a friend, would I put him in the same group as Muhammad Yunus, Wangari Maathai, Paul Farmer, Wendy Kopp, all of these card-carrying social entrepreneurs? If Jim is objectively a social entrepreneur of that caliber, is he the exception that proves the rule? Is there nobody else in the arts who could be called a social entrepreneur, or is there this whole overlooked cohort of talented, socially oriented, potentially hugely successful leaders who, for some reason, have not benefited from the grants, the networks, the incubators, the accelerators, the impact capital that other social entrepreneurs have access to?   Laura Callanan: I thought about this for a while. A few years later, in my role as the senior deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, I started to explore what it would take to close this gap for creative people who've decided to move beyond the studio, beyond the theatre, beyond the concert hall, and to work in their communities and to work as every bit of a social entrepreneur. That's the background and how we got started with Upstart Co-Lab.    Eve Picker: That's pretty fabulous. So, I suppose the question is - what's the end goal for Upstart Co-Lab? What does it look like when you've succeeded?    Laura Callanan: When we've succeeded, every impact investment advisor on their website, next to talking about how they can help their clients invest in community development, and environmental sustainability, and by using a gender lens, they'll also have a nice tab, a nice page, that talks about all of the ways that their clients can invest in the creative economy. We want to see this be as much of a theme, as much of a focus for impact investors as all of the other things that are already grabbing attention and investment dollars.   Laura Callanan: Our goal is to integrate this into the thinking of all impact investors and, frankly, to welcome a whole set of potential impact investors who've been sitting on the sidelines up to this point. By our calculation, more than $58 billion sits in the endowments of our museums, performing arts centers, libraries, or just endowed foundations, schools like Juilliard and RISD.    Laura Callanan: These are institutions that are, at the moment, under some pressure for taking small donations from folks connected with opioids, tobacco, fossil fuels, and weapons. There's been a lot in the headlines in recent months about cultural institutions declining contributions from these tainted sources. But the conversation stopped a bit short, and folks have not yet recognized that these are institutions controlling billions and billions of dollars and, unless they have taken active steps, are likely invested in, and earning returns from tobacco, and fossil fuels, and weapons, and private prisons, and some of these other things.    Laura Callanan: The future that we hope we're building through Upstart is one where all impact investors have more access to the great opportunities happening in sustainable food, ethical fashion, social-impact media, and other parts of the creative economy, and that artists, art lovers, arts institutions, who are investing, are able to learn about and are welcomed into a larger conversation about socially responsible investing through the door of the creative economy.   Eve Picker: Be sure to go to EvePicker.com and sign up for my free educational newsletter about impact real estate investing. You'll be among the first to hear about new projects you can invest in. That's EvePicker.com. Thanks so much.   Eve Picker: It's really a shift in thinking, isn't it? You're an early pioneer in thinking that the creative arts are social impact, and you really have to wait until that idea takes hold with the masses. That's a pretty hard road-    Laura Callanan: Introducing any new idea takes some time, and some patience, and some moral fortitude. We're trying to bring all of that to our work.   Eve Picker: Yeah, that's pretty wonderful. That brings us to real estate, which is really my interest and the interest on this show. You talked about investment in creative enterprises. What do those enterprises look like?    Laura Callanan: Let me describe one where real estate is a really core component. It's interesting because it's actually in the social-impact media space. When you hear social-impact media and you think about film and TV, music, video games, things like that, you think about content. That seems to be the furthest thing- as far as away as possible from real estate. But actually, real estate can play a crucial role.   Laura Callanan: I'm speaking to you today from the Hudson Valley of New York. One of my neighbors is the actor-director Mary Stuart Masterson. She is an example of a creative person who is also very much a social entrepreneur. She is launching a film and TV studio here in the Hudson Valley called Upriver Studios. She is doing it, in part, because she would like to be able to work where she lives, when she acts, and directs, and produces. But she also understands that film and TV can be a significant economic driver for a region.    Laura Callanan: There's a tax credit in this region of New York state, as in the rest of the state, and other places around the country, that incents producers to bring their projects here. One of the obligations to qualify for the tax credit is that your project needs to spend two days shooting on a certified soundstage in the geography, or the tax credit doesn't apply to you.    Laura Callanan: Mary Stuart, and her business partner, Beth Davenport, are launching Upriver Studios, a women-led New York State benefit corporation that will be environmentally friendly. They're looking at solar power, and a green roof, and some other features like that, as well as environmentally friendly on-set practices.   Laura Callanan: It's a hoteling model. They will have the state-of-the-art facility, and producers, directors, projects will come in; rent the space. It's very fit for purpose. It's a specialized space. There is sound attenuation; there are loading docks. There are high ceilings. There's shop space. There are all of these things that are very particular to what it takes to film a TV series.   Laura Callanan: The advantage of this, for the community, is a couple-fold. First of all, every TV series generates between 150 and 200 production-crew jobs. We all think about the actors, and the writers, and the directors who are behind some of our favorite programs, but in fact, they're the minority of people working on the show. There are all of the electricians, and the grips, and the sound folks, and the hair and makeup folks. You look at all those names that run on the credits at the end of a movie or at the end of a TV show [cross talk]    Eve Picker: -Yeah, pretty long list.    Laura Callanan: -150 to 200 people. These are quality jobs. Most of them are union jobs. They pay between $75,000, and $250,000 dollars a year. They have excellent health benefits. To bring this sort of work to this region creates a real opportunity for folks to work in those jobs. There's a sister nonprofit to Upriver Studios, called Stockade Works, that is training the 21st century production crew to be ready to take those jobs.   Laura Callanan: There's also an economic multiplier benefit. There's also a tourism benefit. People like to go to the place that they learn about on their favorite TV show. So, the real estate is crucial to all the rest of this working; to the training program paying off; for the graduates of the training program to have a place to work; to attract folks to come, in partnership with the tax credit; provide the access to the sound stages that will make people really want to come to this region. That's an example of real estate, as I said, connected to a content-focused industry - TV and film.   Eve Picker: So, that's a pretty sexy use. While you're speaking, I'm thinking that also, I think, restaurants are creative.   Laura Callanan: Absolutely. We are working right now on a deep dive around sustainable food, as it pertains to the creative economy. Obviously, there's a big focus, within impact investing, on food and agriculture. We're not looking at the crop. We're looking at what it is on your plate. As I was thinking about it earlier today, we're not focused on the milk, but we are focused on the cheese, right?   Eve Picker: Yes, yeah ...    Laura Callanan: So, the cheese factory is an example. We're not focused on the groceries as much as we are the recipes. Those recipes get turned into delicious dishes in kitchens ... We see a lot of community kitchens and commercial kitchens that can support multiple small-scale entrepreneurs. So, absolutely. Then, the restaurant, as an experience - the setting, the location, the ambiance, the type of building that it's in - it's all part of thinking about food and eating as a form of culture and community, not just nutrition.   Eve Picker: So, I'm realizing we're actually talking to someone who may be a neighbor of yours about a restaurant idea, which is really immersed in the community. They would like to open the door for investment at a very small amount - $250 per investor - because they really want to involve the community. That's another interesting way to look at it. From what I understand, creative enterprises seep into a lot of different things. I have to remind myself from time to time what a creative enterprise is; probably, Small Change is a creative enterprise, because I'm trained as an architect. Do architects count, Laura?    Laura Callanan: We see that a lot of creative people are creative in many ways. They get trained as architects, or painters, or actors, and they decide to start different enterprises. We don't talk about creativity as a skill set or a mindset. We focus on creativity from an industry perspective. We think that's the way that investors can understand best. We had to do a lot of thinking early on about how we were going to scope our focus, because you're right, people can be creative in many fields. But in terms of the type of work we're trying to support and that we're trying to get impact investors to pay attention to - food, fashion, media, other types of creative businesses, and the sorts of real estate projects that we're describing here that make it possible for those creative activities to take place.   Eve Picker: That makes a lot of sense. This is a general question I usually ask - do you think socially responsible real estate is necessary in today's development landscape? I don't know how much you know or are involved in just real estate development. Do you have thoughts about that?   Laura Callanan: Well, it's something that people who think about arts and the creative sector can't overlook, because, as I'm sure you think about often, creative people are pioneers in different ways, not just in terms of the work they do, but where they choose to live and do their work; often looking for affordable places to be to give themselves the flexibility and the capacity to experiment and take risks.   Laura Callanan: Increasingly, we see examples where creative people are in neighborhoods that are ripe for gentrification. There can be confused conversations about the role that the presence of creative people plays in stimulating or contributing to that gentrification. Obviously, I believe that gentrification is a problem that lands on the doorstep of the asset owners and the developers, not the residents and the renters in a neighborhood. The creatives are frequently, like other residents, in a renter capacity.    Laura Callanan: We spend a lot of time looking at academic research and other reports about how the presence of artists and creatives in a neighborhood is not the precipitating factor for gentrification, but actually occurs after the gentrification has begun. We think a lot about what different paradigms could be that would enable residents in a neighborhood to benefit as the neighborhood strengthens; how they can be rewarded for being good neighbors, for sweeping their stoops, for keeping their sidewalks clean - all that stuff that makes the neighborhood inviting and habitable - and what the system could look like - where the folks who are responsible for growing the value of the real estate assets in a community can actually benefit, even if they're not the owners, themselves.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I do think that there is also a piece of this that government is responsible for, because if there's an open free market, then it's very difficult to control, but there are ways to control gentrification that benefit everyone, if you think about it early enough. I'm wondering, are there any current trends in arts innovation that interest you?   Laura Callanan: We don't think about arts innovation, specifically. We're thinking about that larger creative economy; we're thinking about the role that industry plays [cross talk]    Eve Picker: -that's Upstart Co-Lab, but I'm just wondering if there's anything that fascinates you.   Laura Callanan: Anything that fascinates me ... I'm intrigued by our hunger for experience, and this is something where creative people are playing a role. I'm sure that you're familiar with Meow Wolf, the phenomenon that started in Santa Fe that's spreading to Denver, and Las Vegas, and Phoenix, and Chicago, and Washington, and on, and on, and on.   Laura Callanan: This is something where artists have come together. They transformed - in the Santa Fe example - an abandoned bowling alley. They turned it into this funhouse; this art gallery; this community space. It's a place that attracts folks of all ages. All economic, demographic, sociological backgrounds, come, and walk through, and participate in Meow Wolf and find it intriguing.   Laura Callanan: The appetite for these types of immersive experiences, I think, is a reflection of our very isolated, tech-enhanced daily life. I love it that creative people - whether it's through a food experience, whether it's through an art experience, a music experience - that they are at the heart of what people choose to do when they leave their laptop.   Eve Picker: Yes. I think probably Starbucks was one of the first companies that realized this and created an experience out of coffee, right?   Laura Callanan: Exactly.   Eve Picker: What should those of us who are not in the creative world be following? What of these trends do you think is most important for the future of our cities?    Laura Callanan: There's an important role in the creative future for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Put aside the moral and ethical imperative. There's just an imperative in terms of what's going to come out- what's going to generate the most intriguing content, the most relevant experience, the most interesting food, or fashion.   Laura Callanan: As you know, heterogeneous groups of people have been shown to solve harder problems, better and faster. If you think of both challenges and opportunities as problems to be solved, the more engaged the broader set of actors can be in contributing to imagining what comes next, the better the results will be. From a serious point of view, it's a more effective solution. From a more lighthearted point of view, it's that beautiful, delicious, joyful, wonderment experience, right?   Eve Picker: Yes.    Laura Callanan: That having a variety of perspectives, a variety of experiences, a variety of backgrounds, a variety of skills brought together to imagine what's next will get us the best result.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I think you're probably right about that. It's just very hard getting there, isn't it?   Laura Callanan: It depends. If you hang out with enough creative people, it can make you ridiculously optimistic, so ...    Eve Picker: That's what I need to do, then ... Because you have a very different point of view than many of the people I've talked to, who are developers, or work in the securities world, or are really focused on the built environment. You have sort of a more expanded view, I think. How do you think we need to think about our cities and neighborhoods so that we build better places for everyone? You may have just answered that.   Laura Callanan: Well, we think that the creative people and creative organizations, meaning arts- and design-type organizations, have some lessons that are useful to the rest of the economy. We've started to articulate values for an inclusive, creative economy. I can just share them with you because our hope is that we can transform; we can improve; we can strengthen the entire economy by sharing some of these lessons from the creative economy.   Eve Picker: Yeah, that would be great.   Laura Callanan: These are things that we've touched on already, but one is an orientation that's open and experimental. So, openness and experimentation, I think, is crucial. It will help us to keep pace in our rapidly changing world. Continuous improvement, radical new approaches, that's what we need. Incremental change is insufficient given the dynamism, the complexity of the world that we're in. Sometimes, small improvements are just simply inadequate, and you need something that's much more bold.    Laura Callanan: You get that by being curious and having this learning orientation. Artists, designers, very much are built that way, and I think that's a general approach that can benefit all types of businesses, all sorts of real estate projects, governments, philanthropy. I think everyone benefits from that approach. That's the first value that we think the creatives can share with the rest of the economy.   Laura Callanan: The second one - diversity and inclusion - we've already talked about; the capacity to solve problems better and faster that comes when you've got diverse perspectives on the task. It's not just that it's the ethically right thing to do. It's that there's business value. There is a strategic advantage to approaching it in this way. Creativity simply can't be optimized if you don't have both diversity and inclusion at play.   Laura Callanan: The last idea is one around tradition and innovation and recognizing that communities have both - I'll call it - knowledge and wisdom. With that, they're able to learn from the past experience and apply that to what's coming up next in the future. You know that creative people are always reacting to what came before. They might be building off of it. They might be rejecting it outright and trying to do something very different, but creative work is always in context, and it's in context with what has preceded it.   Laura Callanan: The long-term thinking, the sense of stewardship that social-sector leaders and impact investors hold, I think, is very compatible with the way creatives do their work. I think creative take it even a step further; having a really deep respect and awareness of prior tradition, but not being restrained by that or being held back by that; using that actually as a launch pad to innovation.   Laura Callanan: Those are the three ideas that we think are crucial. Creatives just know this in their bones to be open and experimenting, to welcome in diverse perspectives and be very inclusive of various voices and to connect to tradition and innovation. We think that those are ideas and lessons that can strengthen the entire economy.   Eve Picker: I'm very honored that you asked to partner with Small Change and that we're now highlighting creative economy projects on our site. I'm just wondering what you think equity crowdfunding- how you think it can play a role in building these special creative economy projects and communities?   Laura Callanan: I think it's crucial as a way for projects like Upriver Studios that I mentioned a minute ago, or a Meow Wolf, that started in one community and is now expanding to the next six or so communities around the country. I think it's important for these organizations, these enterprises, to engage the communities that they're in, in an active way.   Laura Callanan: This is a way to signal that it's not just building something for a small group of employees or a small group of investors. If you are a Mary Stuart Masterson and you're launching something that you hope is going to really boost the economy of the Hudson River Valley, this is a way to say, "And you, my neighbor, can have a stake in this. You can benefit as we grow this thing together," whether or not your $250 dollars, your $1,000 dollars, whatever the small bite size might be of investment that's facilitated through Small Change ... It's a really clear communication to local folks that this is for them and that they're welcome.   Laura Callanan: I think it's a really strong indicator for larger-scale investors who want to test the morals and the intentions of a real estate developer. It gives them a really strong indication. If the developer is going to take the time and engage with the local community and allow them to participate through a crowdfunding structure, then they're serious about boosting the local community. If they can't be bothered, I think that is a real question mark about the intention of the developer.   Eve Picker: That also extends to planning departments and zoning hearings. If you can bring along a crowd of people who are supporting the project, that's a very strong statement, I think, in many ways-   Laura Callanan: Absolutely.   Eve Picker: Where do you think the future of impact investing lies? I ask this because I'm afraid it's still just a word that people use. I have yet to really believe that people will take a lesser return because a project is socially responsible. Perhaps that's coming, but still hard to believe.   Laura Callanan: Well, I would disabuse you or anyone listening to this podcast that impact investing is asking people to take a lesser return. I know that 25 years ago, when I started to get into the impact investing space - when the space was very new and impact investing was not the term it went by - that there were a few early, less sophisticated, less professionally managed investment opportunities, and that might have been the story back in the 1990s.   Laura Callanan: I would say that we have Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, UBS, Morgan Stanley - all these large names, these premier financial institutions, participating in the socially responsible and impact investing sector, not because they and their clients are expecting to make less money. We can have a whole separate conversation about the whys and wherefores for this. We can talk about the risk management component of introducing social, responsible ESG factors into decision-making, but I would hate for anyone to hear this conversation and walk away thinking that they're going to lose money by engaging in impact [cross talk]    Eve Picker: I don't think lose money but let me just pose the question a bit differently in what I see, and that is, in particular, affordable housing. As a real estate developer, when you work in an underserved neighborhood, it is very hard to get projects to pencil out; very, very difficult. That's why there are so many subsidies around affordable housing projects, and that's why it's slow to build them fast enough.   Eve Picker: If you want to keep a project- an asset like that affordable for the next 15 or 30 years, it's not an asset that will increase in value. It's a difficult thing to invest in. Absolutely, investors in those types of projects will have to take a lesser return than if they invested in a more traditional real estate project. There's a real differentiation there, and I would love to have this conversation with you-    Laura Callanan: No, that suggests that each investment's looked at in isolation, and an investor is looking at their total portfolio. There should be some things that are lower risk and commensurate return, and here are some things that are going to be higher risk and commensurate return.   Laura Callanan: When we were talking with investors about the New York City, the LISC New York City Inclusive Creative Economy Fund, we were talking to them about an eight-year note with full recourse to a AA-rated issuer that was paying 2.75 percent annual interest. As I talk to you today, in September of 2019, and we sit with an inverted yield curve, the 2.75 interest on a seven-, eight-year investment from a AA-rated issuer is looking awfully good. So, a lower-risk commensurate-return opportunity, which has a place in everybody's portfolio.   Eve Picker: I see it- I'm not seeing it yet in my world, but I hope to see it. I think there's still a lot of people who don't think that way ... Maybe we can convince them. There's just some sign-off questions that I'd like to ask.   Laura Callanan: Sure.    Eve Picker: What would be the key factor that makes a real estate project impactful to you?   Laura Callanan: Well, the community orientation, clearly, is something that we would probably both agree on. I see that- it's not a surprise to me that a lot of the creative economy real estate projects that I'm aware of are deeply focused on their role in their community, whether it's Meow Wolf, Upriver Studios ... We haven't yet talked about Greenbelt Hospitality, which is launching out of Phoenix. These are examples where the entrepreneurs behind the projects all are really thoughtful about their community, and real estate is core to what these businesses are all about. The businesses can't succeed if the community is not engaged. I think that that's fundamental.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I agree. If you're looking at the real estate landscape in the U.S., which you see every day, if there were one thing that you could change to make it better, what would that be?   Laura Callanan: Well, I think there's got to be a regulatory solution to the gentrification question. Obviously, improving communities is a good thing. The only reason that we have a term like gentrification that conjures up something that's really, really bad is because when the community improves, there are winners and losers. I think there needs to be a regulatory fact or a solution that comes into play to close that gap, because the notion of keeping communities where they are already and not allowing them to strengthen is not an alternative. It's not a solution to the issue.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I totally agree with you. Thank you very, very much. Thanks for spending the time with us. I really enjoyed the conversation, and I'm going to continue having conversations with you off the air, okay?    Laura Callanan: My pleasure. Thanks, Eve.   Eve Picker: Thank you. Bye-bye. That was Laura Callanan of Upstart Co-Lab. She shared some powerful concepts with me. First, that strategy and focus are key to accomplish big goals, like the goals that Upstart Co-Lab has. Second, that creative endeavors can bring every bit as much to the economy as any other enterprise. Third, that artists, by nature, are suited to community development. Art is built on tradition, whether it embraces it or not. Expect to hear more about creative economy investment opportunities in the next few years, because that is what Laura is determined to do. Eve Picker: You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access the show notes for today's episode at my website, EvePicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today, and thank you, Laura, for sharing your thoughts with me. We'll talk again soon, but for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America in 1989, which leveraged recent college grads against educational inequity in the US. Applying that same approach globally, she co-founded Teach For All in 2007. Wendy has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People & was awarded the presidential citizens medal for her work. On the couch, Wendy talks about how to sustain passion in a career that has spanned 30 years (12:40 ) and why inexperience can actually be a strength (23:53). This episode of Skimm’d From the Couch is sponsored by AC Hotels by Marriott. 

Today, Tom Vander Ark is speaking with Richard Barth, CEO of KIPP and Chairman of the Board at Braven. Prior to these roles, he also worked with Teach for America from 1989-1996, was President of District Partnerships for Edison Schools for seven years, and served as a Member of the Board at General Assembly.   After helping Teach for America get off to a good start, Richard Barth married the founder and CEO, Wendy Kopp. Richard went to work for a school developer and in 2005, he joined a foundation supporting a fledgling charter school network called KIPP. Richard has facilitated the growth from 40 schools to 224 schools, serving almost 100,000 students, nationwide. Along the way, Richard and the KIPP team have learned a lot about getting young people into and through college. They learned about the importance of helping students, as well as how to help them leave high school with a passion, a purpose, and a plan.   Listen in to today’s conversation as Richard speaks to Tom about the lessons he has learned while leading KIPP!   Key Takeaways: [:14] About today’s podcast with Richard Barth. [:58] Tom welcomes Richard to the podcast! [1:12] Why did Richard originally joined the start-up, Teach for America, in 1989? [5:28] Richard recounts the KIPP origin story from when it was first founded in 1994. [8:03] Richard explains how he has seen the KIPP organization mature over the years since he joined in 2005. [13:16] Since 10 years ago, KIPP began to get their first college completion data but it wasn’t as high as they had anticipated. Since then, how have Richard and his colleagues worked towards improving college-going rates as well as college completion rates? [19:07] About KIPP’s incredible commitment to supporting graduates while they’re in college. [22:01] What could higher institutions be doing to help KIPP’s students and other students finish college? [25:48] In addition to KIPP’s efforts to improve college completion, KIPP has also made efforts to improve teaching and learning. Richard summarizes some of the strides they’ve made there! [28:50] Richard gives his thoughts on how serving as a Board Member of General Assembly has made him think differently about learning and post-secondary opportunities. [34:58] As more and more students move into work and learn ladders, how does KIPP help them in school and make good decisions about their career once they’re out of school? [36:30] Richard speaks about the exciting non-profit he is the Chairman of the Board for — Braven. [39:12] Tom thanks Richard for joining the Getting Smart Podcast!   Mentioned in This Episode: Richard Barth (LinkedIn) Teach for America KIPP Foundation Gates Foundation General Assembly Braven Edison Schools (now Edison Learning)   For More on Teach for America, Check Out Last Week’s Episode: Episode 212: “”   If You’d Like to Hear More on Productive Charter Schools and District Relationships, Listen to Episode 65: “Backstabber to Lovetrain: Don Shalvey on District-Charter Relations”   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You’ve Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You’d Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast’ in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!  

Today the Getting Smart team is speaking with Elisa Villanueva Beard, Teach for America’s CEO since 2015.   Imagine following one of the most recognizable CEOs in the world and taking on an organization that was shrinking and was facing financial and political pressure. Elisa did just that in 2013, following Wendy Kopp as CEO of Teach for America. She cut 40% from the central budget and rejuvenated the organization, ensuring that all 51 TFA programs are connected to their local community. Today, more than 7,000 members reach more than 400,000 students in 2500 schools across America. Of the 53,000 alumni, 85% work in education or careers serving low-income communities — that includes over 1200 school leaders, 400 school system leaders, 500 policy and advocacy leaders, and 200 social entrepreneurs! TFA has an amazing legacy of leadership. And for Elisa, it all started by responding to the opportunity to teach in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1998.   Tune in to hear all about Elisa’s unique journey; what she has learned over the years working at TFA in her roles as Chief Operating Director, Co-CEO, and CEO; some of the early challenges she faced with the organization and how she has overcome them; what she has learned about organizational leadership; and what she believes are the key elements for effective teacher preparation and development today.   Key Takeaways: [:14] About today’s episode with Elisa Villanueva Beard. [1:25] Tom welcomes Elisa to the podcast! [1:33] How did Elisa make her way to Bethune Elementary School in 1998? [2:15] Why did Elisa decide to stick with Teach for America and take on a leadership role? [4:39] What does Teach for America offer to college students today? [6:53] Elisa explains what Teach for America’s mission is all about. [9:43] During Elisa’s years as the Chief Operating Officer from 2001-2013, what were some of the big challenges? [13:30] Around 2013, Elisa took over as Co-CEO for Wendy Kopp. What does she remember from that time and her transition into the role as CEO? [15:28] Elisa speaks about some of the early challenges she faced as a new CEO to the organization. [19:52] How does Elisa think about TFA’s movement today? [20:54] Having been in the education space for almost 20 years, how does Elisa think about effective teacher preparation and development today? What does she believe are the key elements? [23:35] What has Elisa learned over the last decade about organizational leadership? [27:34] What kinds of talents and dispositions does Elisa look for in regional leaders? [29:52] What’s next for TFA? [31:51] Where to learn more about TFA!   Mentioned in This Episode: Elisa Villanueva Beard (LinkedIn) Teach for America   For More on Teacher Preparation, Listen to: Episode 191 with leaders from Northeastern University and Episode 188 with James Tracey from Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning at MIT.   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You’ve Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You’d Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast’ in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!  

Wendy Kopp, Class of 1989, was a groundbreaking social entrepreneur long before the term was invented. She conceptualized Teach for America as part of her senior thesis and founded the organization shortly after graduation. It is based a single big idea: the most promising future leaders coming out of college could have profound social impact … Continue reading "Wendy Kopp: On 30 years of educational disruption"

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In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve public education in the US. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent college grads to teach in needy schools. One year later, she launched the nonprofit, Teach for America. Today, TFA has close to 60,000 alumni and continues to place thousands of teachers across the country. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with 19-year-old CEO Abby Kircher who turned a peanut butter obsession into Abby's Better Nut Butter.

On this episode of Never Stand Still, I spoke with my long-time friend Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, whose senior year thesis at Princeton turned into one of the largest nonprofit educational organizations in the world today. We talked about optimism as a key to success and the responsibility of organizations – whether in corporate America or the nonprofit sector – to nurture peoples’ desire to make a positive impact in the world.

Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach for All and Founder of Teach for America, joins host Dan Loney live at the Wharton Global Forum NY 2018 to discuss leadership through teaching on Knowledge@Wharton. http://www.whartonnewyork18.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Education reform is often referred to as the "civil rights issue of our time." But what would have happened if "edupreneurs" (like Mark Zuckerberg, Wendy Kopp or Dave Levin) had used their money, influence, connections and access to solve the riddle of why we can't integrate schools? Have You Heard talks "segrenomics" with Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education.

In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve American public schools. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent college grads to teach in underserved schools. One year later, she launched the nonprofit, Teach for America. Today, TFA has 50,000 alumni, a budget of nearly $300 million, and continues to place thousands of teachers across the country. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how a game of Secret Santa led Chris Waters to create Constructed Adventures, elaborate scavenger hunts for all occasions.

Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, students, and other key stakeholders. Truth For America is co-hosted by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig and Dr. T. Jameson Brewer. Episode 11 was LIVE at the 2016 Save our Schools March and Conference held at the Lincoln Memorial and Howard University. The episode features a conversation with David Green (experienced teacher of teachers), Tina Andres (Santa Ana special education teacher), and Emma Howland-Bolton(TFA alum, Detroit teacher, and founding member of Learn with Detroit & the Corps Advisory Board). The conversation includes a discussion about the contracts that TFA signs with districts and universities, the role of Teach For America in school privatization in Detroit, New Orleans and elsewhere. We also discuss Wendy Kopp's original vision for TFA, how communities can influence conversations about TFA and review some of the conversations from the first ten Truth For America podcasts Truth For America is sponsored by the Network for Public Education Action. Copyright permission from REM for use of song "World Leader Pretend" in Truth For America podcast worldwide: https://www.dropbox.com/s/80jynkybgpz5r29/REM%20World%20Leader%20Pretend%20Permission.pdf?dl=0

Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, students, and other key stakeholders. Truth For America is co-hosted by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig and Dr. T. Jameson Brewer. Episode 9 features a conversation with Dr. James Ladwig and Dr. Barbara Veltri, education professors who were involved with Teach For America in the 1990s. The podcast includes background about Wendy Kopp and the conversations that occurred during the birth of Teach For America, discussion about the very first summer training Institute, the idealism of the original TFA corps members and much more. Truth For America is sponsored by the Network for Public Education Action.

ESMT talked to Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach For America and CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All at the ESMT Annual Forum 2015 in Berlin. Wendy Kopp received the ESMT Responsible Leadership Award at the ESMT Annual Forum 2015.

Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach for All, candidly reflects on her experiences leading Teach for All and Teach for America, with thoughts on the future of both organizations.

Former Senator Jon Kyl explains why 2014 may finally be the year our immigration system gets fixed; Teach For America Founder Wendy Kopp, and Education Policy Program Director Kevin Carey discuss a new strategy for educating the world. (Note: the second half of this podcast was recorded in early December, before New York Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio decided to appoint Carmen Fariña as the new city chancellor.)

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach For America reflects on 20 years of leading this national teaching corps and talks about how it has changed American (and global) education.

Wendy Kopp describes her life journey and the challenges that she faced founding Teach for America.

Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp delivered the main address at Dartmouth College's 2012 Commencement exercises on Sunday morning, June 10.

In A Chance to Make History, Wendy Kopp shares what she has learned in her 20 years at the center of a growing movement to end educational inequity in America.Kopp shows that we can provide children in low income urban and rural communities with an education that transforms their life prospects, if we engage in the hard work required to achieve extraordinary outcomes in any endeavor -- establishing ambitious visions for success; developing capable teams to pursue the vision; building strong cultures of achievement and management systems that foster continuous improvement; and above all, doing whatever it takes to achieve the desired outcomes.Offering insights and recommendations that may surprise Teach For America's champions and critics alike, A Chance to Make History sets forth what it will take to "scale up" the growing number of examples of education trumping poverty.Presented in partnership with Teach For America Baltimore. All author proceeds from the book will support Teach For America corps members in urban and rural communities. Recorded On: Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Kopp will speak about what needs to be done to improve achievement among low income students in America and about her new book, A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All.

In 1988 Wendy Kopp proposed Teach for America in her undergraduate senior thesis. She describes how she realized the idea and understood that it had potential to be a successful business. (January 12, 2011)

Wendy Kopp, Teach For America's CEO and founder, is driven to end educational inequity across the nation. In this seminar, Kopp shares her entrepreneurial story of starting Teach For America straight out of college, and articulates the sense of urgency that she and her organization still feel for producing fundamental changes to education in America.

Wendy Kopp, Teach For America's CEO and founder, is driven to end educational inequity across the nation. In this seminar, Kopp shares her entrepreneurial story of starting Teach For America straight out of college, and articulates the sense of urgency that she and her organization still feel for producing fundamental changes to education in America.

Wendy Kopp, Teach For America's CEO and founder, is driven to end educational inequity across the nation. In this seminar, Kopp shares her entrepreneurial story of starting Teach For America straight out of college, and articulates the sense of urgency that she and her organization still feel for producing fundamental changes to education in America.

Teach For America places thousands of energetic and committed college graduates as teachers in under-resourced schools for their first jobs. In this audio lecture recorded at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wendy Kopp shares why and how she started Teach for America in 1980, and its progress in raising the bar for under-achieving children. She also discusses how the organization rode out its "dark years," when enthusiasm and corporate support for the effort began to wane. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/wendy_kopp_-_raising_the_bar_for_low-income_students

Teach for America founder and president Wendy Kopp spoke at Mount Holyoke's 170th commencement Sunday, May 27, 2007.

In an effort to narrow the gap in educational opportunities, Teach For America currently places over 5,000 teachers in low-income and poorly performing schools across the country. Its growing corps of alumni is also taking their educational experiences into careers in law, public health, policy making, and leadership. In this audio interview, Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America, tells host Sheela Sethuraman about the history, goals, and ideals of that program. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/wendy_kopp_-_narrowing_educational_gaps_across_america