Teaching as Collective Leadership - A Conversation with Wendy Kopp

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