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We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
— Charles Best
Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
— Charles Best
I'm not tech savvy at all.
— Charles Best
Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.
— Charles Best
If you track your organization's creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you're missing out. It's more important to capture those unplanned sparks of inspiration that so often come when we're cooking dinner, taking a shower, or commuting to work.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
We make friends with people we admire, including those you might consider competitors, like charity: water, Kiva, and Global Giving. We get on a call with them and exchange ideas.
— Charles Best
Whether you're saying 'thank you' to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.
— Charles Best
Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
We believe in the wisdom of the front lines.
— Charles Best
To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks.
— Charles Best
At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that classroom teachers often know their students better than anybody else in the system and that their front-line experience gives them a special kind of wisdom.
— Charles Best
It's hard to enlist the support of people you don't know, but it's critical to growing your career, finding new customers, and building out your team.
— Charles Best
Whether you're raising money for a cause, a personal need, or a project, most crowdfunding sites center on you hitting up people you already know. These sites make it easier to tap your social network for funds, but only the most compelling cases inspire support from strangers.
— Charles Best
Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.
— Charles Best
America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?
— Charles Best
At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.
— Charles Best
Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.
— Charles Best
DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
At DonorsChoose.org, we've seen what technology can do for a classroom. We make it easy for teachers to request the materials they need most for their classrooms and for donors to make a meaningful contribution to education.
— Charles Best
Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.
— Charles Best
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
— Charles Best
Teachers are heroes.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class.
— Charles Best
At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.
— Charles Best
Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.
— Charles Best
You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
I do not live off canned soup.
— Charles Best
Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.
— Charles Best
I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.
— Charles Best
The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business plan.
— Charles Best
In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.
— Charles Best
I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students' respect.
— Charles Best
To get DonorsChoose.org to scale, we first need to increase the viral appeal of our website.
— Charles Best
If anything, we hope that DonorsChoose.org is going to be a prompt, a nudge in the side of the public school system to improve and to start delivering these materials and experiences that students need and to make it easier for teachers to innovate.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.
— Charles Best
We are so humbled and grateful to Google for their devotion to our teachers and students.
— Charles Best
Teachers know how to improve education.
— Charles Best
We want to use our site to galvanize people to give but also to take important steps toward real change.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
Donorschoose.org is the one place where somebody with $10 gets the same level of impact and feedback from the recipients that Bill Gates gets when he's making a million-dollar gift.
— Charles Best
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?
— Charles Best
Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.
— Charles Best
People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
— Charles Best
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.
— Charles Best
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