Words matter. These are the best Charles Best Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Students can’t dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits – or even paper, pencils, and paste.
My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn’t get the resources that would excite our students about learning.
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.
One question we’ll ask is, ‘Who are you grateful for,’ and a surprising number of people can’t name anyone beyond their mother.
No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.
Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child… won’t you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?
Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.
Our partnership with Dick’s Sports Matter program aligns perfectly with our mission to address inequity in schools nationwide.
We are so humbled and grateful to Google for their devotion to our teachers and students.
I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students’ respect.
People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.
We think there’s nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.
My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life… And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
I’m not tech savvy at all.
For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured ‘The Little House on the Prairie’ book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of ‘Farmer Boy,’ one of the later installments in the ‘Little House’ series.
We’ve heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes – and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.
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.
We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.
I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.
Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.
We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.
People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
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.
It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn’t have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.
I’ve been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.
Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we’re distracted by routine habits.
Our mission is to help students in need and to democratize philanthropy.
At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.
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.
I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper – literally – and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.
An art project, a hands-on science experiment, or a special field trip can transcend textbooks and flash cards. No one knows this better than those teaching students with autism.
We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.
Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.
We’ve long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.
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.
Hardworking, passionate teachers know their students’ needs better than anyone else in the school environment. If we can tap into their needs, we can unleash smarter solutions and empower those people on the front lines.
Acknowledging someone is an act of altruism in the first place, so converting that act of altruism into a pizza party or company fleece jacket or a gift card is fine, but it’s not in keeping with spirit in which it all began.
If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.
DonorsChoose enables teachers not just to go public with learning needs in classrooms but also to unleash their imaginations about the best ideas to help students learn.
America’s best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
To get DonorsChoose.org to scale, we first need to increase the viral appeal of our website.
Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.
I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
Imagine someone with $10 finding a classroom project that speaks to them personally, seeing where their money is going, and realizing that they don’t need to be a millionaire to make a difference.
One thing that gets missed a lot is that DonorsChoose is merely a place where teachers post wish lists. That doesn’t do justice to the level of innovation that we see taking place on our site.
Teachers are heroes.
I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn’t have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.
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.
Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea – that anyone can make a difference.
