The MY HERO Global Educator Award honors individuals who provide access to quality and compassionate learning environments for students around the world. These leaders understand the power of connectivity and provide tools and a voice for young people to share their vision and exchange ideas and values. These leaders demonstrate how we can use media, art and technology to enrich learning for students, parents and teachers. We are so grateful to these educators for their commitment to digital literacy, media arts and most importantly to serving the needs of children for today and the future .
These outstanding educators are leveraging the power of information and technology in our digital age to bring awareness and understanding to help young people create positive change in the world.
2022 TEACHER HERO - JEFFREY RUDKIN
By: 7th grade Students from Batchelor Middle School
A wonderful media arts educator who inspires his students with a focus on hero based storytelling!
Jeffrey Rudkin Receives 2022 MY HERO Teacher Award
By: Deborah Neff, Staff writer
Dr. Mandeep Rai – The Values Compass
By: Abigail Richardson
Eva Haller Salon - Dr. Mandeep Rai
Eva Haller
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
Media Arts Educator | Holly Carter
BYKids
Holly Carter is a leader in media arts production with youth around the world
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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.
Meet Wendy Milette MY HERO's Film Festival Director
Celebrating MY HERO's Film Festival Director, Wendy Milette
By: Abigail Richardson
Celebrating MY HERO's International Film Festival Director, Wendy Milette
Stories
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.
2019 MY HERO Global Educator Award Winner Melinda Gates
By: Betty Bailey
Melinda Gates' women heroes in Africa and India teach her how to uplift the women in their communities through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. James Doty
By: Wendy Jewell
James Doty, M.D., FACS, FICS is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.
Taking Flight
By: Abby Pflueger
In an area where traditional education fails students, one Mayan woman starts her own school in order to rebuild her community from the ground up.
Global Educator Award - Sal Khan Acceptance
Khan Academy
Global Educator Award 2017 - Sal Khan Acceptance video
WOJ!
Produced by:by Jeanne Meyers & Wendy Milette
Esther Wojcicki shares her vision for a Moonshot Movement in Education.
Erin Gruwell Wins MY HERO's 2015 Global Educator Award
MY HERO Global Educator Award - Paul Cummins
Produced by:The MY HERO Project
MY HERO honors Paul Cummins at the 2014 MY HERO International Film Festival
Global Educator Award - Peter Copen - iEARN 25
Produced by:The MY HERO Project
Peter Copen, Founder of iEARN receives the Global Educator Award at the 2013 MY HERO International Film Festival
Peter Copen
By: David Kemker
Peter Copen
is the founder of iEARN (International Education and Resource Network).
Global Educator Award - Elizabeth Daley
Produced by:Cassandra Brooksbank
Dean Elizabeth Daley is presented with the 2011 Global Educator Award at USC.
Rowena Gerber's Solar Oven Project & Environmental Studies
Produced by:Skip Blumberg & Jeanne Meyers
Rowena Gerber: Global Educator Award 2010
George Lucas
By: David Kelly
founded Edutopia to spotlight teachers using creating learning programs for the benefit of educators around the globe.
Mali Bickley and Jim Carlton Global Educators
Mali Bickley And Jim Carlton Honored As Global Educators share lessons about their creative use of technology in the classroom.
Cheikh Darou Seck - Global Educator
Produced by:MY HERO
Cheikh Darou Seck is the 2009 winner of the MY HERO Global Educator Award.
Films and Stories Honoring Teachers Who Use MY HERO in the Classroom
Jerrilyn Jacobs - Media Arts Educator Award 2017
Produced by:Evan Morton
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.
Mali Bickley
By: David Kemker
Mali Bickley
is proud of her students who won Best Film (Rainforest Fable), Elementary category, of the 8th Annual MY HERO Film Festival.
2020 Media Arts Educator Award
The MY HERO Project honors Actuality Abroad (Aubrie and Robin Canfield) at the 2020 MY HERO International Film Festival.
Ala Lungu
By: Lungu Nicoleta
Bill Belsey
By: Jesse from Calgary
Bill Belsey
teaches his students and others how to stand up to bullying.
Cheikh Darou Seck
By: Seny from Dakar
Cheikh Darou Seck
is an English teacher in Senegal who inspires his students to become MY HERO reporters and filmmakers.
Guillermo Ojeda-Lajud
By: Wendy Jewell from The My Hero Project
Guillermo Ojeda-Lajud
is teacher in Mexico who helps his students gain filmmaking skills.
Barry Kramer
By: David Kemker
Barry Kramer
empowers students to ask questions and find answers through Learning Circles, a telecollaborative learning experience.
ODILE DEWAR
By: Cheikh Darou Seck
Photographs of Some of the Teachers Who Use MY HERO With Their Students to Enrich Learning
Eveline Freitas: Brazil
Credit: Eveline Freitas
Margaret Chen: Taiwan
Credit: Margaret Chen
Coleen Bondy: United States
Credit: C. Bondy
Anissa Benabdallahayari: Tunisia
Credit: A. Benabdallahayari
Humaira Asif: Pakistan
Credit: Humaira Asif
Cornelia Platon: Romania
Credit: C. Platon
Abdelaziz Rhazzali: Morocco
Credit: A. Rhazzali
Mendy Kanu: Sierra Leone
Credit: Mendy Kanu
Geeta Rajan: India
Credit: Geeta Rajan
Ala Babcinetchi: Moldova
Credit: A. Babcinetch
Joe Ruggieri: United States
Credit: J. Ruggieri
Madeline Gillum: United States
Credit: M. Gillum
Films Featuring Amazing Teachers
WOJ!
Produced by:by Jeanne Meyers & Wendy Milette
Esther Wojcicki shares her vision for a Moonshot Movement in Education.
Freedom Writers: Stories From an Undeclared War [Trailer]
Produced by:Freedom Writers Foundation
Inspired by their teacher, Erin Gruwell, and the writings of Anne Frank, the students discover a new way to express themselves.
Notes on a Violin
Produced by:Dir. Taly Oehler
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.
Supercharging the Classroom: Using Technology to Support Personalized Learning
Produced by:Edutopia
Sal Khan founded a school on the same principles of personalization that drove the success of his YouTube tutorials.
Stories Highlighting Amazing Teachers
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.
Atsuko Shiwaku
By: David Kemker
Atsuko Shiwaku
set up the International Intercultural Mural Exchange Project to promote peaceful coexistence.
Erin Gruwell
By: Jerrilyn Jacobs
John Seigel Boettner
By: Betty Bailey
John Seigel Boettner
brings his classroom out into the world and the world into his classroom through bikes and film.
Tommie Hamaluba
By: Claudia Herrera Hudson
Tommie Hamaluba
is a teacher in Botswana, Africa, working to eradicate malaria.
Ruty Hotzen
By: Reverend Charles F. Harper
Ruty Hotzen
inspires students from around the world through Talking Kites, iEARN.
Fauzia Minallah
By: Joanne Tawfilis
Fauzia Minallah is the founder of Funkor Childart Centre, a filmmaker and an ARTIVIST.
Peter Copen
By: David Kemker
Peter Copen
is the founder of iEARN (International Education and Resource Network).
The Art Miles Mural Project Joanne Tawfilis
By: Slater
The Art Miles Mural Project
Joanne Tawfilis
teaches respect and understanding through art.
Janet Miller
By: David from The MY HERO Project
Janet Miller
is a teacher who stepped up to prevent bullying of LGBT students.
Art
What Sandy Hook taught us about teachers
Always Remember to Thank a Teacher
Stories and Poems by Students about their Teachers
