Charles Best Quotes
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Access to sports is an important part of a well-rounded education, and it takes committed communities and companies like Dick's to make a real difference in kids' lives.
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We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.
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We really are based on this idea that teachers have all this pent-up classroom expertise and that if we could just empower them to come up with micro-solutions, they're going to come up with smarter ideas than anybody would at the top.
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We aren't prescribing anything. We're not claiming to be the experts. We aren't advocating for or against any program. We are going to create a platform that says very explicitly what it is that teachers experience in their classrooms.
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We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.
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I'd listened to my colleagues in the teachers' lunchroom. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better. They just didn't have the resources. I was frustrated, but I also knew it was a frustration felt by teachers all over the city.
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Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
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We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
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Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or the office rent.
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I do not live off canned soup.
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I've met with titans of Silicon Valley because they're investing in our national expansion. I've had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever.
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To get DonorsChoose.org to scale, we first need to increase the viral appeal of our website.
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KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.
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Our partnership with Dick's Sports Matter program aligns perfectly with our mission to address inequity in schools nationwide.
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When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.
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My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy, paper, and pencils. I just figured there are people out there who would want to help teachers like us if they could see exactly where their money was going.
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I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.
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A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.
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Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.
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We're thrilled to be a part of PNC's longstanding commitment to early childhood learning. Their generosity will help us expand the DonorsChoose.org platform to serve Head Start classrooms nationwide, ensuring that many more pre-K teachers have resources they need to give their students a solid educational foundation.
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Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.
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One question we'll ask is, 'Who are you grateful for,' and a surprising number of people can't name anyone beyond their mother.
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If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need for a great education, that will be the first major step to doing something about it.
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I think it's the strength of the idea that's made Donors Choose work, not me. I mean, I'm determined, and I work hard, but so does everyone else.