Nancie Atwell Wins $1 Million Global Teacher Prize & Donates It To Her School

Educator and author Nancie Atwell has been awarded the $1 million Global Teacher Prize and has donated it to the school she founded.

Here’s some additional information:

This first tweet links to a contribution she made to my Education Week Teacher blog…

Congrats 2 @NancieAtwell 4 winning #TeacherPrize Read what she suggests we do 2 help our stdnts become better readers http://t.co/gZ1Lth8RSb

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) March 15, 2015

Congratulations, Nancie Atwell for winning the first #TeacherPrize! Celebrating her work & the work of all teachers! pic.twitter.com/INGFFyTfIT

— Global Teacher Prize (@TeacherPrize) March 15, 2015

U.S. writing teacher Nancie Atwell wins "Nobel Prize of Teaching," “It’s like a miracle. It’ll mean life for my school for another decade.”

— Greg Toppo (@gtoppo) March 15, 2015

Congratulations, 2015 #TeacherPrize winner, Nancie! http://t.co/ngBBLcn9fh pic.twitter.com/VEzA8XVTAh

— Global Teacher Prize (@TeacherPrize) March 15, 2015

Global teacher prize winner gives away $1m is from The BBC.

The (Million-Dollar) Value Of Great Teaching is from NPR.