The International Day of Education is observed on January 24 every year. It looks at education from a broader perspective. The quality of education varies for children around the world, with millions still deprived of this basic human right. The day is created to campaign for better education reforms and improve access to education for all. It’s a day to celebrate and advocate for access to education.
Yasmine Sherif - Director of Education Cannot Wait
Yasmine Sherif is the Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN's global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. A lawyer specializing in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (LL.M), she has over 30 years of experience with the United Nations and international NGOs.
Yasmine has served in some of the most crisis-affected areas of the world, including Afghanistan and the Middle East, the Balkans, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan. She has also led teams in New York and Geneva – from where she continues to conduct regular missions to countries affected by armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate-induced disasters and other crises.
Yasmine Sherif: Winner of the 2020 Global Educator Award
By: Shannon Luders-Manuel
Yasmine Sherif, who leads Education Cannot Wait, is the winner of MY HERO's 2020 Global Educator Award.
Yasmine Sherif Global Educator Award Winner
Kitty Richardson
Congratulations to Yasmine Sherif, the Director of Education Cannot Wait and the winner of the 2020 Global Educator Award.
Yasmine Sherif in Conversation with Mohamed Sidibay - Eva Haller Salon
The MY HERO Project for Eva Haller Salon Series - Edited by Katie Graubart
Yasmine Sherif - 2020 Global Educator Award Zoom Presentation
Jeanne Meyers, Wendy Milette
Global Educator Award Yasmine Sherif, Director of UN Global Fund ECW
The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session
By: Yasmine Sherif
Esther Wojcicki
Esther Wojcicki is a pioneer in education who has spent 30 years building an outstanding high school journalism program at Palo Alto High School. Her book, “Moonshots in Education: Blended Learning in the Classroom,” provides an important platform for a global education movement devoted to radically improving teaching and learning around the world.
Esther Wojcicki
By: Wendy Milette and Jeanne Meyers
WOJ!
Produced by:by Jeanne Meyers & Wendy Milette
Esther Wojcicki shares her vision for a Moonshot Movement in Education.
MY HERO STORIES CELEBRATING EDUCATORS
2023 Global Educator - Martin Smatana
By: Union Square & Co
Martin shares about creating his book A YEAR OF GOOD NEWS!
Dr. Mandeep Rai – MY HERO's 2022 Global Educator
By: Abigail Richardson
Dr. Rai, author of The Values Compass wins MY HERO 2022 Global Educator Award.
My Hero Awards Holly Carter 2021 Global Media Educator
By: Abigail Richardson
Holly Carter, founder and Executive Director of BYkids, has been awarded the Global Media Educator Award in 2021 by The MY HERO Project
Samar Minallah Khan
By: Abigail Richardson
Samar is a filmmaker, anthropologist and activist. In the media, she has been referred to as ‘The Savior of Souls,’ one of the ‘Women who rock the world,’ ‘The Crusader with the Camera’ and the ‘Women that changed Pakistan.’
Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, Hero and ‘Mother of Afghan Education’
By: Abigail Richardson
Pakistani Teacher Humaira Asif Awarded MY HERO Outstanding Educator Award
By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Pakistani Teacher Humaira Asif Awarded MY HERO Outstanding Educator Award for her work with students and MY HERO.
Pashtana Durrani
By: Deborah Neff
Pashtana Durrani, who received the Malala Fund Education Champion award for her work on behalf of education for Afghan girls, is determined to continue providing educational opportunities for women and girls, even if she has to resist the Taliban and go underground.
Techo and Techo para Aprender
By: Annie Merkley
Techo and Techo para Aprender are nonprofits in Chile that help empower impoverished communities through leadership, housing and education.
Jeffrey Rudkin Receives 2022 MY HERO Teacher Award
By: Deborah Neff, Staff writer
Iqra - Read (A Prayer for the Girls of Afghanistan and Pakistan)
Producer: Fauzia Minallah
This film promotes the education of the girl child in Afghanistan and Pakistan through Mural Art.
Japan Art Mile
Producer: Cheikh Seck
Atsuku Shiraku shares her enthusiasm for global peace through collaborative art murals.
Dina Fesler opens a unique school in Afghanistan
By: David Conrads <br> Contributor of The Christian Science Monitor<br> <h5>Perm...
Dina Fesler went to Afghanistan to learn how to teach U.S. students about the country. Now she's opened a school there.
Meet Leonid Nevidomiy - an inspirational physics teacher from Ukraine
Leonid Nevidomiy
By: Abigail Richardson
In September 2022, Leonid Nevidomiy a teacher from Yelanetskyi the Mykolavyiv region, Ukraine encouraged students to submit 10 pieces of work to the MY HERO Project.
The Forgotten Hero - Carl Lutz
Daniel Joseph Taylor
This video is about the Holocaust hero Carl Lutz, who saved 62,000 Jews during his lifetime.
MORE AWARD-WINNING EDUCATORS
Goldman Environmental Prize Wins MY HERO Media Award
By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded Media Award at the MY HERO 17th Annual Film Festival
The Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize
2021 MEDIA AWARD WINNER - The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's foremost award honoring grassroots environmental activists
2021 Global Educator Award - Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Blythe Lappé
Produced by:The MY HERO Project
Learn about Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Blythe Lappé in this video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Book Diet for a Small Planet.
Frances Moore Lappé (Lappe)
By: Rosemary Pritzker
Hero Frances Moore Lappe is a passionate and pioneering thinker and activist who fights world hunger.
Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary
By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary with new edition.
Eva Haller Salon - Frances Moore Lappé
Eva Haller
From Child Soldier to Human Rights Activist - Mohamed Sidibay on his Heroes - Kailash Satyarthi and the Dalai Lama
By: Mohamed Sidibay
A former child soldier from Sierra Leone, Mohamed is now a human rights activist who is fighting for quality education for all regardless of national origin or gender.
Eva Haller Salon with Mohamed Sidibay
Produced by:Eva Haller
2022 TEACHER HERO - JEFFREY RUDKIN
7th grade Students from Batchelor Middle School
A wonderful media arts educator who inspires his students with a focus on hero based storytelling!
2022 IFF Global Educator
Credit: MY HERO
Eva Haller Salon - Dr. Mandeep Rai
Eva Haller
Related Pages
Learning Circle
By: Laura Nietzer
A Place for Educators to Learn About the MY HERO Learning Circle Partnership with iEARN
Learn about MY HERO's Teachers Room with Learning Circle Director Laura Nietzer
The MY HERO Project
Laura Nietzer gives tips on how to use the Teacher's Room Resources to bring classrooms to life. Laura is available to mentor teachers as they integrate MY HERO with their classes.
Samar Minallah Khan Wins 2 Prestigious Awards at Festival
By: Abigail Richardson
Shalom Ukraine (YouthBridge)
By: Olga Kotlytska
A film about Ukrainian teenage refugees from different parts of Ukraine, who with their art and talents convey to Europeans the truth about Ukraine.
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