Volunteer - The Movie


Rushton Hurley is a high school teacher in Santa Clara, California, who started and runs NextVista.org, an online library of free videos by and for teachers and students everywhere. He attended Project Amigo’s December Work Week. To learn more about the efforts of NextVista.org, contact Rushton at rh@nextvista.org

Rushton has been a Japanese language teacher, a principal of an online high school, a teacher trainer, an educational technology researcher, and a school reform consultant who has worked and studied on three continents. In early 2006 he started an educational nonprofit called Next Vista for Learning, which is dedicated to providing free video insights about academic topics, service to others, and introductions of communities around the world.

In addition to his regular work, he devotes time to the community through Rotary and as a member of the city of Santa Clara's International Exchange Commission. In early 2005, he was awarded the Baha'i Unity of Humanity Award in Texas for his work developing online and international programs for at-risk students. He also juggles, though he has never received an award for it.