Supercharging the Classroom: Using Technology to Support Personalized Learning

Sal Khan is the Founder and CEO of KHAN ACADEMY and the Global Educator Award Winner of the 2017 MY HERO International Film Festival.

HE NAMED ME MALALA is a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.

Global Educator Award 2017 - Sal Khan Acceptance video

Jerrilyn Jacobs has been inspiring students to create meaningful media for over a decade. MY HERO salutes her dedication as a teacher and director of the Taft Media Program.

Sal Khan founded a school on the same principles of personalization that drove the success of his YouTube tutorials.

Apps & Girls, an organization that teaches young girls how to code their own websites, and Carolyne Ekyarisiima, the founder of Apps & Girls, became a mentor.

Esther Wojcicki shares her vision for a Moonshot Movement in Education.

Righteous Conversations Project mentors youth to tell stories that promote tolerance.

A device made from paper promises to make microscopes as widely available as pencils.

NOTES on a VIOLIN is a short documentary film which follows a violin teacher who wants to promote beauty in an otherwise dissonant world. With his unusual methods of recruitment as well as teaching, Darren Briggs' contagious passion attracts students and the curious. This quirky, slice of life story invites us to rethink our ability to live harmoniously among discordancy.

"Everything you do makes a difference and all of your choices have consequences."

Self-sacrifice means a lot more when the hero saves more than one person. Liviu not only saved a large majority of his classroom, but also became an inspiration for his surviving students and so many others.

"He deserves more than the footnote history books accord him"

"My hope is a good life, good education. I want a positive change"

"I think teachers are like second mothers and your role is to help them walk. They start walking with small steps and they will move on walking with bigger steps till they go. I think a teachers role is to help them walk, and to stand proud."

In this film azerbaijani kids speak about their heroes who take an action to help others

this film is about my sister,my hero...

My mother was always there for me,no matter of times

THis video is about my mother! She will always be my hero because she can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take!

This is a short introduction of Azerbaijani kids did for My Hero project Learning Circles.

This fall marks the release of 'Leonardo's Brain,' the book that Director Tiffany Shlain's father and best-selling author, Leonard Shlain, finished days before he passed away. Tiffany builds off her father's ideas to explore the future of our species.