Teach For America
American nonprofit organization founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp that recruits and places recent college graduates and professionals as teachers in low-income communities to address educational inequity; headquartered in New York City.
Books
This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.
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1. Teaching As Leadership
The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
A practical guide grounded in classroom-tested practices that defines what highly effective teachers do to close the achievement gap, presenting a clear framework that combines instructional skill, leadership mindset, rigorous goal-setting and data-driven decision making. Drawing on corps members’ case studies and research, it describes strategies for building strong classroom culture, planning and delivering high-impact lessons, using assessment and feedback to accelerate learning, and collaborating within schools to sustain improvement. The book also offers tools, rubrics, and coaching approaches for recruiting, developing, and evaluating teachers so schools can reliably raise student outcomes.