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KIPP School Summit
"Every child deserves a life full of opportunities."
Every Kid Needs a Chamption, Rita Pierson
"We're born to make a difference."
Wright's Law
"And as long as we care about each other, that's where we go from here."
To This Day, Shane Koyczan
"See, they asked me what I wanted to be, then told me what not to be."
Pass On, Michael Lee
"The brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long."
Ronald Davis
"No matter what people think about me, I know I'm a human first."
If I Should Have a Daughter, Sarah Kay
"And you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.”
What Teachers Make, Taylor Mali
"Teachers make a goddamn difference! Now what about you?"
Undivided Attention, Taylor Mali
"Let me teach like a Steinway, spinning slowly in April air.."
Miracle Workers, Taylor Mali
"All I did was give you what I knew you needed..."
I'll Fight You For The Library, Taylor Mali
"Fifth grade english teacher, Ph.D., eighth degree blackbelt, sensei, hooah."
Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh-Grade Viking Warrior, Taylor Mali
"He died with his sword in his hand and went straight to Heaven."
Videos
The Shared Experience of Absurdity, Charlie Todd
"And I think, as adults, we need to learn that there's no right or wrong way to play."
The Power of Vulnerability, Brene Brown
"Because when we work from a place that says, "I'm enough," then we stop screaming and start listening. We're kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we're kinder and gentler to ourselves."
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, Randy Pausch
"Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
Convocation Speech, Nikki Giovanni
"We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid."
Home, Jorge and Alexa Narvaez
"Home is wherever I'm with you."
Rebuilding a Neighborhood with Beauty, Dignity, Hope, Bill Strickland
"I believe in your hopes and dreams."
The World is Just Awesome
"Boom de yada, boom de yada."
Nike Motivation
"Passion has a funny way of trumping logic."
Shine, John Legend and KIPP Orchestra
"Are we afraid to see them, prisoners of history?"
A Pep Talk from Kid President
"It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance."
Four Life
"You look like an over-sized baby."
Shake It Out, Capital Children's Choir
"And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back, so shake him off."
How Schools Kill Creativity, Ken Robinson
"And the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future."
The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Adichie
"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
The 3 As of Awesome, Neil Pasricha
"One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever, or two, you can grieve and then face the future with newly sober eyes."