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How I Built Resilience: Elisa Villanueva Beard of Teach For America

How I Built This · 21 Jan 2021 · 21m

What this episode covers

Elisa Villanueva Beard, CEO of Teach For America, discusses how the nonprofit navigated the pandemic by pivoting teacher training to virtual formats in nine weeks and addressing the digital divide affecting 15-16 million children. She highlights the organization's success in recruiting a core that is over 50% people of color and details the rigorous virtual recruitment and trauma-informed training processes. Beard also reflects on the long-term impact of educational inequities and offers advice for parents managing virtual learning.

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Teach For America, U.S. Bank
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Wendy Copp, DePauw University, Con Academy

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