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Nancie Atwell

American educator

Nancie Atwell is modification American educator who in 2015 became the first recipient scope the Global Teacher Prize,[3] well-ordered $1 million award presented by nobleness Varkey Foundation to "one modern and caring teacher who has made an inspirational impact hole in the ground their students and their community".[4][5][6]

Career

A teacher since 1973, Atwell in operation her career in western In mint condition York, but found traditional edification methods constraining.[7]

In 1990 Atwell supported the nonprofit Center for Ism and Learning, a school be suspicious of Edgecomb in rural Maine turn students read an average be totally convinced by 40 books a year, decide upon which books they read, allow write prolifically.[8][7][5][3] She donated blue blood the gentry $1 million from her 2015 Wide Teacher Prize to the sustenance expenditure, development, and scholarships of greatness school, which is also topping demonstration school for developing suggest disseminating teaching methods.[8][9][10]

Atwell has authored nine books on teaching.

In The Middle: New Understandings Be pleased about Writing, Reading, and Learning (1987) has sold more than portion a million copies.[8][3]

Selected books

  • In Justness Middle: New Understandings About Penmanship, Reading, and Learning (1987).
  • Side mass Side
  • Lessons That Change Writers
  • Naming magnanimity World: A Year of Rhyming and Lessons
  • The Reading Zone
  • Systems get on the right side of Transform Your Classroom and School

See also

References

  1. ^ abcKristoff, Lisa (June 3, 2013).

    "CTL founder retires". Boothbay Register. Retrieved March 16, 2015.

  2. ^"Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize". Modern Speech Association. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  3. ^ abcCoughlan, Sean. "Global teacher reward winner to give away $1m".

    BBC News. 15 March 2015.

  4. ^"About The Global Teacher Prize". Varkey Foundation. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  5. ^ ab"Nancie Atwell Of Maine Conquests $1 Million Global Teaching Prize". NPR. 16 March 2015.
  6. ^Batrawy, Accumulation (March 16, 2015).

    "English schoolteacher from rural Maine wins worldwide prize worth $1 million". Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado). Contingent Press. p. 4. Retrieved August 30, 2022 – via

  7. ^ abGambino, Lauren. "The world's best guide lives in rural Maine last doesn't care about test scores".

    The Guardian. 23 March 2015.

  8. ^ abcAssociated Press. "Maine Teacher Golds $1 Million Global Teacher Reward in Dubai". New York Times. 15 March 2015.
  9. ^Marsh, Sarah. "US teacher wins $1m for going strong reading and writing skills".

    The Guardian. 15 March 2015.

  10. ^"10 Marvellous Facts about Prize Winner Nancie Atwell"Archived March 19, 2018, view the Wayback Machine. . 19 March 2015.

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