This Black High School Teacher Won The $1 Million Global Teacher Prize

Essence Magazine:

By Malaika Jabali ·Updated November 12, 2021

High school English teacher Keishia Thorpe won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize awarded by the Varkey Foundation.

As per the foundation, “she was selected from more than 8,000 nominations and applications from 121 countries around the world.”

This honor complements Thorpe’s previous awards: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan awarded her the Medal of Excellence and she was named National Life Changer of the Year for 2018-2019.

As the foundation stated, Thorpe

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