Teacher to give million dollar prize to school

The winner of the first ever million-dollar Nobel-style award for teaching has pledged to donate the prize fund to a school she founded 25 years ago.

Nancie Atwell, from Maine in the US, picked up the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, which recognises an “exceptional” individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.

Ms Atwell has said she will donate the full award to the Center for Teaching and Learning, a non-profit school she founded in Maine in 1990.