Name Nancie Atwell Occupation Educator Role Educator | Years active 1973–2013 Spouse Toby McLeod Website c-t-l.org Children Anne Atwell-McLeod | |
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Awards Global Teacher Prize (2015)NCTE Award for Outstanding American Middle School English Teacher (2003)MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize (1987) Books In the Middle: New Und, Lessons that Change, The Reading Zone, In the Middle - Third Edit, Side by Side: Essays o Similar Milton McPike, George O. Abell, Stacey Bess | ||
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Nancie Atwell is an American educator who in 2015 became the first recipient of the Global Teacher Prize, a $1 million award presented by the Varkey Foundation to "one innovative and caring teacher who has made an inspirational impact on their students and their community".
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- Nancie atwell global teacher prize global teacher prize winner 2015
- Global teacher prize winner nancie atwell on bbc world news
- Career
- Selected books
- References
Global teacher prize winner nancie atwell on bbc world news
Career
A teacher since 1973, Atwell started her career in west New York, but found traditional teaching methods constraining.
In 1990 Atwell founded the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning, a school at Edgecomb in rural Maine where students read an average of 40 books a year, choose which books they read, and write prolifically. She donated the $1 million from her 2015 Global Teacher Prize to the upkeep, development, and scholarships of the school, which is also a demonstration school for developing and disseminating teaching methods.
Atwell has authored nine books on teaching. In The Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning (1987) has sold more than half a million copies.
Selected books
