Nancie Atwell, a teacher from Edgecomb, Maine, won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize. Atwell won against teachers nominated from all over the world.

The award ceremony was held in Dubai this past Friday.

Atwell, 63, founded the Center for Teaching and Learning, a private elementary and middle school in Edgecomb. She still teaches at the school, she has also written nine books on teaching.

The prize is aimed at doing for education what the Nobel Prize had done for science, literature and peace.

Atwell has said if she won she would give the money back to her school.

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