World's top teacher uses $1m prize to bring artists to schools

The London art teacher who won this year's global teacher prize has been lauded for founding a charity that will bring artists into schools.

Andria Zafirakou announced she is using the $1 million she won in March with the Varkey Foundation global teacher prize - a kind of Nobel Prize for teaching - to set up a campaigning charity to get more artists and arts organizations into Britain's schools.

Zafirakou said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution. "We are going to make a change and do something quite incredible," she said. "I knew what I had to do, I had to start a mission, a crusade, to help fix a mess, to raise the profile of arts in our schools."