‘We must ensure all students have the opportunity to succeed and no laws or policies should strip them of that’: U.S. teacher wins $1 million global educator prize
On hearing she had won, Thorpe, surrounded by members of her family and watching the prize ceremony in Paris via video link, first laughed and then sobbed, her head buried in her hands."This is to encourage every little black boy and girl that looks like me, and every child in the world that feels marginalized and has a story like mine, and felt they never mattered," Thorpe told the ceremony host, French actress Isabelle Huppert.
Thorpe teaches English to 12th-grade students who are English language learners at the International High School Langley Park in Bladensburg, Maryland. Thorpe grew up in poverty in Jamaica, before immigrating to the United States on a track and field scholarship. While studying, she volunteered as a tutor in an inner-city school, and was inspired to become a teacher when she saw the lack of opportunity facing students.
The Global Teacher Prize is sometimes described as the Nobel Prize for educators. It was founded by the Varkey Foundation, a philanthropic fund, and organized in partnership with the Paris-based United Nations cultural organisation UNESCO.
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