This is by far the best list I’ve ever made!
Michelle Rhee, Dave Levin and others are people I really look up to. Teach For America is a fantastic organization and I’m so proud to be associated with it!
Here is the full list and article:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/corps-values.html?page=0%2C2
Fashion Week got a little Olympic infusion tonight with Bergdorf Goodman’s “Play with the Pros” in conjunction with Fashion Night Out.
Olympic Speed Skating Champion Joey Cheek, Olympic Figure Skating Champion Sarah Hughes and myself along with Olympic Hopeful Georgina Bloomberg and a number of great designers including Tom Brown celebrated this night of fashion with games on the main floor of BG.
Had a great time and thank you to all the people who turned out! (Especially the fencers and Teach For America folks! Meant a lot! GO Fencing/TFA)
PS check me out competing at the Fencing Masters on November 17th at Hammerstein Ballroom! Tickets on sale now! www.fencingmastersnyc.com
I was a guest teacher today for an amazing bunch of 8th grades at MS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy as part of Teach For America Week. Brushes off the skills I honed as a 7th grade social studies teacher in Washington Heights for 3 years and returned back to the neighborhood where I attended elementary school at Central Park East I.
I definitely miss teaching and interacting with kids on a regular basis! Hope they enjoyed the visit…I wish I had smart boards when I was teaching…those things are amazing! lol
Congrats to all of the students on their hard work and recent High School acceptances! I look forward to seeing all the great things they will do for this world in the near future. Maybe some future Olympians in the bunch? Hope so!
Special thanks to Mr. Peak and the principal for letting me visit their great school. Also to Erin Brooks and Josh Dormont for being awesome escorts and all the people who are sponsoring Teach For America teachers!
Can’t thank Millard Drexler, the CEO of J. Crew, and Caroline Kennedy enough for their support of Teach For America. Had a very humbling evening with both of them and my Teach For America family at the J. Crew store on 17th and 5th to celebrate the efforts of some great leaders in New York who are supporting TFA.
I’m going to teach at a public school in Harlem tomorrow as part of Teach For America week in NYC. So excited!
Teach For America Week:
Teach For America Week draws community leaders nationwide to support educational excellence for all children. These volunteers will visit the classrooms of Teach For America teachers, also known as corps members, and teach lessons based on their experience in business, politics, and beyond. An annual event since 1997, Teach For America Week will take place in 30 regions across the country in 2010.
Over 20 confirmed participants are designers Kate and Andy Spade; Sherrie Westin, Sesame Workshop Chief Marketing Officer; David Westin, President of ABC News; Amy Astley, Editor in Chief Teen Vogue; Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money; stylist Frédéric Fekkai and Drew Nieporent, owner of Nobu and other Myriad Restaurant Group establishments.
More about TFA and to donate: www.teachforamerica.org
Dear Friends,
Please help me in supporting one of the most impactful non-profit organizations in our country, Teach For America.
All you need to do is shop this weekend – to get your coupon just click and print!
From TODAY, Thursday, March 18th – Sunday, March 21st, you can receive 30% off any in-store purchases at Banana Republic, Gap, and Old Navy — with 5% of your net purchases going to benefit Teach For America!
To date, Gap’s Give & Get campaign has raised nearly $700,000 for Teach For America, thanks to the enthusiastic participation of our Teach For America “friends and family.”
Dear Fencers and Friends,
I’m in need of your quick and easy (and free!) assistance to support a great cause. In case you didn’t watch the above video, James Williams, Ben Igoe, Daryl Homer and I (Aka The US National Men’s Saber Fencing Team) are supporting Jumpstarts world-wide campaign to promote early literacy.
Jumpstart is a national early literacy organization and Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is their annual campaign to raise awareness about the crisis that exists in early education for children in low-income communities.
This year, Jumpstart is inviting anyone and everyone to choose the 2010 official book for Jumpstart’s Read for the Record! When you vote for your favorite book, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record’s founding sponsor and partner, the Pearson Foundation, will donate $1* to support Jumpstart’s yearlong program. *Up to $200,000
Olympic Fencer James Williams reads at least an hour daily
Choose from one of the following children’s book titles –Blueberries for Sal, Make Way for Ducklings, Peter’s Chair, and The Snowy Day. Voting closes on February, 28. The book that receives the most votes will be announced in March and will become the centerpiece of Jumpstart’s fifth annual record-breaking campaign!
Ways to Vote:
Visit www.readfortherecord.org/vote and vote now!
You can also text your vote (up to five times)! Text the words below to 90999:
Pass this along to your friends and family and help Jumpstart raise awareness of the crisis in early literacy!
Thank you,
Tim Morehouse
PS I appreciate your support! www.readfortherecord.org/vote (takes 5 seconds to help raise money and make a difference!)
While covering the 100 day countdown to the Vancouver Olympic Celebration at Rockefeller Center I was excited to find some familiar faces!
Amongst the hundreds of local children in attendance were severeal current and former Teach For America teachers and their students!
The kids and teachers all got some pretty jazzy Olympic gear and the students got to sign autographs, meet many Olympians and ice skate!
Now Teach For America does an ice skating event in Central Park, but I think this one might be hard to top with Olympic Gold Medalist Sarah Hughes skating with them!
Kids from Mott Hall 3 and various other schools were there! Such a perfect day. The Olympics and TFA! 
Capitol Hill last week and now the United Nations…(I’m so focused on the end goal sometimes I forget to appreciate the daily stuff, but this was truly amazing!)
I had the amazing privilege of being on a panel at the 6th Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations for a session titled “BE THE CHANGE Making a Difference Around the World.”
Around 700 20-somethings from around the world were in the audience. They are all participating in a three day conference, aimed at bringing together youth who are already making big differences in their various countries to network and build their skills.
Truly inspiring group of young people!
When you meet so many socially minded and “goal driven for good” people it’s impossible to not walk out the door and feel like you can take on anything!
I spoke about my experiences and what it takes to reach your goals and also talked a lot about Teach For America and it’s founder Wendy Kopp. She is truly the best example of what can be accomplished with a powerful goal and the right mindsets and she started the program at the same age as most of them in the room.
One of the highlights of the day was getting to see Jessica from Boys Town New York! (pictured above) Jessica was one of the students I met earlier in the year when I spoke at their school in Brooklyn.
It’s amazing to see her continuing to turn her life around and to see that’s she’s now looking to help others! (GO JESSICA!)
Special thanks to my teammate Jason Rogers for setting up this opportunity for me. Really appreciate it J-Rog!
Last week, I was invited by my friend Edna Novak, the executive director of Teach For America Connecticut, to speak to their incoming corps at their induction!
With my friend Jeff Imrich,we drove from NYC to Connecticut to talk to the 100 or so new corps members and future teachers/difference makers!
I had a great time and since I spent so much of my working career at Teach For America (7+ years!) it was fun to reconnect especially with the newest recruits. They’re off to NYC themselves this weekend to begin their journey at Institute…
GOOD LUCK CONNECTICUT CORPS!!!!!!!!!
Jason Rogers and I spoke today to approximately 250 9th and 10th graders at the High School of Arts and Technology.
We had a fantastic time presenting to the students and hope they realize just how much potential they have if they aim high and go for it! (You guys are amazing! Believe it!)
Special thanks to Lisa Chen for inviting us to speak and the administration for having us!
The school also has 7 fabulous Teach For America corps members finishing their first years! (Congrats guys!) and many more alumni so I felt right at home! (Go TFA!)
The Teach For America crew!
The students watching us present
Jason defeats me this time! (PS the student who just learned about fencing is refereeing and doing a great job!)
