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Edgecomb Maine Global Teacher Prize: Career

Nancie Atwell has been a teacher since 1973. She found traditional teaching methods constraining and in 1990 founded the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning in Maine, where students read an average of 40 books per year of their choosing and write prolifically. She donated the $1 million from her 2015 Global Teacher Prize to support the school, which develops and shares her teaching methods. Atwell has authored nine books on teaching, including The Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning, which has sold over half a million copies.

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Edgecomb Maine Global Teacher Prize: Career

Nancie Atwell has been a teacher since 1973. She found traditional teaching methods constraining and in 1990 founded the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning in Maine, where students read an average of 40 books per year of their choosing and write prolifically. She donated the $1 million from her 2015 Global Teacher Prize to support the school, which develops and shares her teaching methods. Atwell has authored nine books on teaching, including The Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning, which has sold over half a million copies.

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Career

A teacher since 1973, Atwell started her career in west New York, but found traditional teaching
methods constraining.[7]

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.[8][7][6][4] 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.[8][9][10]

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. [8][4]

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