Teacher Power
[Summer 2005 - NRTA Live & Learn - AARP] At age 13, Fred Mednick gave an impassioned bar mitzvah speech about how he would change the world by improving education around the globe. Thirty-four years later, after a 20-year career as a high school principal in Los Angeles and Seattle, Mednick is making good on that promise. As founder of Teachers Without Borders (TWB), he has created an ever-expanding, mostly volunteer network of more than 5,000 teachers in 84 countries who are helping one another build dynamic education systems in the communities that need them most. ...