Survivor returns to the Mamanuca Islands of Fiji for Season 38. As usual, the 18 castaways competing for the $1 million prize is a diverse group of individuals including firefighters, salespeople, bartenders, college students and teachers. One of the most impressive castaways on Survivor: Edge of Extinction is one of the eldest, Ron Clark. The 46-year-old innovative educator co-founded The Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta in 2007 after being named “American Teacher of the Year” by Disney (out of 70,000 nominees) in 2000, and was Oprah Winfrey’s pick as her “Phenomenal Man.” Winfrey, who always wanted to be a teacher, said Clark is “living my dream.” In 2017, at the academy’s tenth anniversary event, Oprah Winfrey donated $5 million. She said of the Ron Clark Academy, “There’s not a better school, organization, institution in the U.S.A.”
The Ron Clark Academy is a non-profit middle school (grades fifth through eighth) in Atlanta, founded by Clark and Kim Bearden in 2007. During the 2008 presidential election, students at the school created a song “Vote However You Like” set to the T.I. song “Whatever You Like” and were invited to perform at the 2009 inauguration. Ron Clark is the author of four bookx on education including his New York Times bestseller The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator’s Rules For Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child and his latest, Move Your Bus: An Extraordinary New Approach to Accelerating Success in Work and Life. Survivor 38 premieres Wednesday, February 20 at 8 pm on CBS. [CBS streaming: Watch Survivor and/or any CBS show through Amazon Prime or CBS ALL-ACCESS. Both options offer free trials.]
Oprah at the Ron Clark Academy 10th anniversary event…
Ron Clark on Oprah…
The Ron Clark Story trailer…
Matthew Perry and the real Ron Clark pic.twitter.com/0mPoD3kubu
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