Adora Svitak

Called a “tiny literary giant” by Diane Sawyer, Adora Svitak is the world’s youngest teacher 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 RESA’s “Best Author and Expert” award for distance learning two years in a row.

To inspire the teachers of tomorrow, she speaks at educational institutions 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. Adora’s books include Flying Fingers, an engaging how-to handbook on writing for parents and kids from a student’s point of view; Dancing Fingers, a collection of poetry she co-authored with her sister Adrianna; and Yang in Disguise, a coming-of-age fantasy novel with undertones of political satire.