Adora Svitak
World's youngest teacher, seasoned speaker & a published author
Adora Lily Svitak has been called a tiny literary giant by respected journalist Diane Sawyer. Thirteen-year-old Adora is the world's youngest teacher, seasoned speaker and a published author. She explores new technologies and their possibilities in education through her teaching and speaking.
Adora's daily video conferences with students from around the world have earned her Berrien RESAs Best Author and Expert award for distance learning three years in a row. To inspire the teachers of tomorrow, she speaks at schools of education including DePaul and Bowling Green State University.
Adora advocates for education innovation around the world. A prolific writer on education and related technology, Adora has written for EdTech Magazine.
She is a prodigious blogger, posting on 21st-century learning at The Educators Royal Treatment, a blog dedicated to education. She was nominated in 2009 for the Edublogs Student Blog Award. Adoras books include:
- Flying Fingers, an engaging "how-to" hand book on writing for parents and kids from a students point of view
- Dancing Fingers, a collection of poetry she co-authored with her sister Adrianna
- Yang in Disguise, a coming-of-age fantasy novel with undertones of political satire.
