Deborah Levine
@deborah_levine
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writer, editor, beach comber, mom of teens
Brooklyn, NY
Joined February 2009
This #DayOfTheGirl, let’s remember: sustainable progress in girls' education comes from local leadership. 🌍💪 Maliha Fawzia from @TeachForAll shares how teachers & communities are driving lasting change.📖 Read more:
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As the first female maths teacher in a low-income school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I witnessed how deeply ingrained cultural and societal barriers continue to block girls' access to quality education....
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This International #DayOfTheGirl we passed on the mic to girls around the world to hear from them their vision of the future! This is what they shared with us:
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“Climate #education makes learning fun and interesting for us. Even though climate change seems big, we can do something about it” - 9 yr old Cybill, grade 3 Governor, Kwa Njenga Primary School @Teach4Kenya #GC23Kenya @TeachForAll
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"I want to make a passionate call...to prioritize scaling interventions for refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers and advocate for policy shifts that promote their wellbeing and dignity" Please read this incredibly powerful piece by @TEACH4UG's David Moses Okello #eie
Why it is important to recruit teachers and staff with lived experiences in emergency contexts? David Moses Okello, Head of Programs at @TEACH4UG shares 💬 #EiE
https://t.co/e2fjfzMmjN
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So excited to be hiring for this role! If you know any great video editors baesd in the countries below, who want to tell the stories of inspiring educators, innovators & young people across the globe, please tell them to apply 🙏🌎📹
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨! We're looking for a creative short-form #Video Producer/Editor 🎥 to join our Public Affairs team! 💻#Remote locations: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru Learn more & apply: https://t.co/WWpAEvpfX2
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This is THE BEST news! Congratulations Edson on this huge honor - I know your students are as excited as we all are 🎉🌍💪 @TeachForAll @teach4zim #COP27
We just received news that Edson won his category at the #TeachersCOP - which means that he will present his work (online) in front of the IPCC at #COP27 !🎉🎉 GO Edson! @teach4zim
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"On those days when you feel like there are not lights in the work that you're doing, just remember the ripple effects - we are a small cog in a huge wheel and there's something so inspiring about that" @TeachFirst alumna Ndidi Okezie @TeachForAll 15th anniversary
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"I think the community is the hope" @TeachFirst alumna & @NowTeachOrg co-founder @KatieWaldegrave @TeachForAll 15th anniversary
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"The one thing that keeps me going in my work is learning about the inspiring experiences of my students" Aramide Kayode @Teach4Nigeria alumna who founded a school for out-of-school children @TeachForAll 15th anniversary
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"I've chosen to stay, because I don't find anything else to be as meaningful" Sandra Fomotskin @nooredkooli alumna on her choice to continue to work in education, at the MOE in Estonia @TeachForAll 15th anniversary
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"Education is not just about the student, it's about the family - and that's what keeps me going" @DoegarAniket @haqdarshak @TeachForAll 15th anniversary
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One of my students and a @TeachForIndia and @Akanksha_India student alumna, Shruti, shares her reflections from speaking at the @TransformingEdu summit: https://t.co/FRKfQkK7Ye 💪🏼🙌 Thank you to @TeachForAll for the opportunity, and @deborah_levine for your writing support!
teachforall.org
I never imagined speaking at the United Nations. This opportunity was huge and I could not be any more grateful to all my teachers and mentors who believed in me and encouraged me to speak at the...
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"There is a long way to go towards building a world where girls have equal opportunities to thrive...Yet, if we work together...a gender equitable world seems within reach in our lifetime" Great piece by Farihah Fahmy on #DayOfTheGirl
https://t.co/5spxbvFnqH
@TeachForAll
teachforall.org
As a young female history and English teacher in Perak, Malaysia, I taught in a secondary school where gender archetypes of leadership were deeply entrenched in all spaces. Year on year, there was no...
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Important words from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 👉 “We can’t forget: It is the women that make it work. We have to find a way to focus on how to address the many years of discrimination of women that have not allowed them to make a difference” #PeopleFirstDev
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“Listen to the people, respect their priorities, take some risks so that those who are learning have capacity. In all of this, those who do it best are #women” @EllenJohnSir @TeachForAll #peoplefirst #UNGA
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“Don’t say you’re #peoplefirst unless you really mean it. As a donor you have to be ready to cede control”@darrenwalker @FordFoundation @TeachForAll #UNGA
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“We support all these programs, but we’re going to have to support women.” @EllenJohnSir #peoplefirst @TeachForAll #UNGA
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“One of the most powerful roles in any society is not the head of state, it’s the citizen” @CarenWakoli @EPLeaders #emergingleadersfoundation @TeachForAll #peoplefirst #UNGA
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“If you have seen…smelt…felt poverty, it has a way of dehumanizing individuals. As I kept asking the question why such inequality, the answer was #leadership” @CarenWakoli @EPLeaders #peoplefirst @TeachForAll #UNGA
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“Finding people who’ve always seen themselves as the caretaker of their community” - Anne Marie Burgoyne @EmCollective on finding inroads to supporting local leaders #peoplefirst #collectiveleadership @TeachForAll #UNGA
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