Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) - Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 12 January 2011

⏱️ 61 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It's my pleasure to introduce Wendy Copp. As you likely know, she founded Teach for America 20 years ago,
0:24.6	and she's grown Teach for America to over 8,000 people, teaching in 39 urban areas and rural communities,
0:34.6	and there's a network of over 20,000 alumni. Who is part of Teach for America here today?
0:39.3	Raise your hand.
0:40.3	Let's give them an ovation for the work that they do.
0:47.3	Wendy is also the co-founder and CEO of Teach for All,
0:51.3	a global network of independent organizations working
0:55.0	to expand educational opportunity across the world. And she's the author of two books. The first
1:01.6	is one day all the children. The unlikely triumph of Teach for American what I learned along
1:07.0	the way, published in 2000. How many have read it? Great. Shame on the rest of you.
1:12.2	Buy it. And then there's a new one just coming out, a chance to make history. What works and what
1:18.1	doesn't in providing an excellent education for all. Wendy, we are so thrilled to have you here.
1:23.3	Welcome to Stanford. Thank you. Well, I am really excited to be able to, I'm feeling badly about the people who are standing
1:35.3	in the back, but hopefully you all can sit down if you'd rather, et cetera.
1:39.3	I'd love to just have a real discussion with you all.
1:45.0	I'm going to tell some merger between the kind of entrepreneurial story of Teach for America
1:51.0	and the story of, I guess, why I myself and my colleagues in this work feel just extraordinary
2:00.0	urgency and sense of possibility about the future in this effort
2:06.1	to ensure educational opportunity for all. But I'll just kind of start with this story and just
2:13.7	say that I feel very, very lucky that I somehow landed on this idea a little over 20 years ago when I was a senior at Princeton University.
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