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Nancie Atwell is one of the most highly respected educators in the U.S.
and around the world. As the winner of the Varkey Foundation's
inaugural Global Teacher Prize, she dedicated the entire $1 million
award to the Center for Teaching and Learning, a non-profit
demonstration school she founded in 1990. Nancie was the first
classroom teacher to receive the NCTE David H. Russell Award and
the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for distinguished research in the
language arts. Nancie is the author of the classic text
In the Middle
,
now in its third edition, which has been described as "the greatest
book on literacy teaching ever written in this country."
Anne Atwell Merkel teaches seventh and eighth grade writing,
reading, and history at the Center for Teaching and Learning. A
graduate of Amherst College, she taught sixth grade English in the
Washington, D.C., public school system for a year, and then spent
three years teaching sixth through eighth grade language arts at
Friends Community School in College Park, Maryland. Anne conducts
presentations about her work at conventions of the National Council
of Teachers of English. She also coordinates the Center for Teaching
and Learning’s intern program for visiting teachers who wish to adopt
the school's award-winning methods for teaching writing and reading.
Anne Atwell Merkel
Nancie Atwell