Nínive Clements Calegari
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Nínive Clements Calegari is the co-founder of 826 National and the founding executive director of 826 Valencia where she also serves on the board of directors. 826 Valencia and the eight related locations of 826 National are a group of non-profit writing centers for students ages 6–18.
Ninive is also the founder of The Teacher Salary Project, a non-profit designed to build the political will necessary to transform how our society values effective teachers. The project will use film, the internet, and the general public to communicate its mission.
In 2008, Ninive was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to the San Francisco Arts Commission. She also serves on the boards of Learning Points Associates and the George Lucas Education Foundation.
Ninive is a veteran public school teacher who has had ten years of classroom experience. Before teaching in her family's hometown in Mexico, Nínive worked at Leadership High School, San Francisco's first charter school, where she also served on the Board of Directors. Nínive went to Santa Catalina School and graduated in 1989, later going to Middlebury College to receive her bachelors degree and her masters from Harvard University. Her former students include renowned San Francisco State graduate student Cassidy Kelly.
Nínive is coauthor with Dave Eggers and Daniel Moulthrop of Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (The New Press, 2005),[1] which argues that increasing teachers' salaries is a critical piece to meaningful school reform and essential to making sure that our students consistently get the quality teachers they deserve.[2]
In 2007, Ninive received Edutopia's 2007 Daring Dozen award.[3] She has been the recipient of an NEH Fellowship, the William Coe Award for study at Stanford, the Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and most recently The Jim Henson Community Honor, 2010, for her work with 826 National.[4] She holds a Masters in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
References
- Jim Henson Community Honor
- 826 National Biography of Calegari
- The New Press
- SF Arts Commission Annual Report
External links
- The Teacher Salary Project
- Review of Teachers Have It Easy in The Washington Post
- Do the Right Thing, Middlebury Magazine
- Learning Points Associates
- Scottish Book Trust Audio Interview
- Education Mavericks
- 5 questions for Ninive Calegari
- ABC-7, KGO-TV, San Francisco, CA
- Video of ABC-7 Profile of Excellence on Calegari