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Leah Devine is an online Spanish teacher with the West Virginia Virtual School. 

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Leah Devine is an online Spanish teacher with the West Virginia Virtual School. 

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Email: LDevine@k12.wv.us

Training Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wvwldevine18/

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Leah Devine is an online Spanish teacher with the West Virginia Virtual School. In a K-12 blended delivery setting, Devine aides rural WV students in developing second language proficiency. She currently teaches Spanish in seven middle & high schools in five WV counties (Greenbrier, Kanawha, Monroe, Randolph, & Summers). Her schools are: Western Greenbrier Middle School, DuPont Middle School, Mountain View and Peterstown Middle School, Pickens School, and Summers County Middle and High School. Devine taught for six years in face to face classrooms and the second half of her career in online settings. She is currently in her 12th year of teaching. In May of 2107, Devine earned her masters in Instructional Design and Technology from WVU. Devine is the current president of the WV chapter of AATSP and the secretary of WVFLTA. During the summers, Devine enjoys Spanish Immersion Camps. She participated in the WV Spanish Language Immersion Camp from 2012-2014 and directed a Spanish Immersion Camp in Thomas, WV in the summers of 2017 & 2018. Each Spring, Devine helps plan and coordinate FISEDI, Spanish Immersion Weekend, with the officers of AATSP-WV for Spanish teachers and adult Spanish learners.

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Heidi Trude is a French Teacher at Skyline High School in Front Royal, Virginia. 

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Heidi Trude is a French Teacher at Skyline High School in Front Royal, Virginia. 

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Email: htrude@wcps.k12.va.us

Blog: http://techietrude.blogspot.com/

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Heidi Trude is a French teacher at Skyline High School in Front Royal, Virginia. She has ten years of experience teaching every level of French from French I through French V Honors. She created an international partnership between her school and Lycée-Bazin in Charleville-Mézières, France, to engage her students with the French language and culture. Furthermore, she possesses multiple educational technology certifications and she is a master at integrating technology meaningfully into the foreign language curriculum. She also provides technology training for the faculty at her school and she presents her innovative ideas at professional conferences such as the Foreign Language Association of Virginia and SCOLT. Heidi serves as the secretary and communications chair of FLAVA (Foreign Language Association of Virginia) and as a member of the executive board of the AATF (American Association of Teachers of French) Virginia chapter. At the national level, she has created LANGtalks professional development videos for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

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My name is Yoshimi Yamagata Aoyagi, and I graduated from Ganto Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan.  I majored in British-American Literature; however, I was more interested in linguistics through transformational grammar.  I was planning to be an English teacher in Japan, but I could not speak English.  This was one of the reasons I came to the US to get a higher-educational degree in Applied Linguistics.  My MA is from West Virginia University, where I focused on TESOL.  I was interested in teaching methodologies so I took a course on how to teach Japanese as a foreign language.

After graduating from WVU, I taught at several colleges.  When I started teaching Japanese at Carrboro High School, I found that I really enjoyed teaching high school students.  I am fascinated by their flexibilities, and I focus on challenging their cognitive levels.  As a language teacher, it is more than an honor and pleasure to work with high school students.  Some of them go to four year colleges in Japan, others decide to major in Japanese, some are looking for jobs in Japan.  One of my best student is on the way to Japan for her job.

Teaching is learning.  When I teach high school students, I am learning from them.
yaoyagi@chccs.k12.nc.us

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Hua Zhang is Chair of Chinese Language Department at Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, Florida

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Hua Zhang is Chair of Chinese Language Department at Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, Florida

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Hua Zhang received her MA in Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing. She is a veteran Chinese teacher and was the World Language Department Chair at the Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio. She currently works as the Chinese Language Department chair at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Florida. She serves as the Teacher Training Specialist at UMASS Confucius Institute and the Chinese Council International. She holds an advanced professional license in teaching Chinese in Ohio and Maryland. Hua has published multiple essays and books on Second Language Learning and Teaching since 1989. She has made multiple presentations regarding Chinese Learning and Teaching at different AP Chinese workshops, OFLA conferences, ACTFL, CLTA-Florida, FFLA, Teacher Training workshops at UMASS Boston, Beijing Normal University and Shanghai International Studies University. She has been working as Chinese AP reader since 2008, and as Mandarin content consultant for the Pearson National Evaluation Systems. She currently serves as Target Language Expert for U.S. National Foreign Language Center. She received 2017 Teacher of the Year Award from Florida Chinese Teachers Association and was honored with 2017 Teacher of the Year from Florida Foreign Language Association.

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is a German teacher with over 20 years experience in the classroom and extensive knowledge of the AP World Language and Culture Exams.

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kurstinbush@hotmail.com
kurstin.bush@wcs.edu
Centennial High School
Franklin, TN

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Teacher of German I - IV AP at a nationally ranked high school for 14 years. AP reader, Table Leader and Question Leader since 2006. Served as Co-Chair of the AP German Test Development Committee from 2012-2017. Former TNAATG President and member of TFLTA.

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hutchinschristine4@gmail.com

I have been teaching Chinese for 17 years. I am an AP Chinese Reader,  KWLA Board Member, and active presenter at the local, state, regional, and national level. I am an Oral Proficiency Tester of Chinese through ACTFL. In 2015, I learned how to take proficiency-based instruction and make it stronger  by attending the first LILL: Leadership in Language Learning workshop, sponsored by ACTFL, CLASS, and CLTA,.
I wrote a blog recently about finding my voice as a world language teacher. My journey in finding my voice started when I helped form the Kentucky Association of Chinese Language Teachers (KACLT) in 2007. Since then, there have been many different officers. Little did I know that ten years later, I would find myself the 2017 recipient of the Outstanding Chinese Teacher Award, nominated by the same organization that I helped form!

From there I was put in the running for the coveted KWLA “Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Award. I never thought that I would then be named the 2017 Outstanding Teacher from so many worthy candidates. I was shocked! I was terrified to then move on to the next level.

I have never attended SCOLT before. I was nervous to find out that I would be representing my entire state, speaking and representing teachers of all languages, at all levels. I felt I had reached a new place, a chance to be mentored by amazing teachers. Getting to know the other SCOLT TOY nominees left me energized.

Now I had a chance and a platform to put all the advocacy tools to use. Working with the state Division of Program Standards at the Kentucky Department of Education, I had data and used social media to garner support from teachers from around Kentucky. I used ACTFL’s advocacy tools, the LEAD WITH LANGUAGES campaign data, BYU Research on Foreign Language demand, information from the Kentucky Export Initiative, and also from the KY Cabinet for Economic Development.

I’ve had many teachers contact me showing interest in how to advocate. I finally found my voice! I feel confident how to speak up, and back up what I say with data!

If I had not become a Teacher of the Year, I would not know how to do all of this! I feel ready to give speeches now, based on what I had to do in the TOY interviews at SCOLT. I can’t wait to keep strengthening my voice, and not only empowering myself, but new teachers as well!

I received my Master’s in Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my undergraduate from Marshall University, in Huntington, W.Va. I earned my teaching credentials at Northern Kentucky University. I am available to present locally, at the state level, national and international. My passion is working with new world language teachers at all levels! I am also the Louisville, KY, Director of the Certificate course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language for  Via Lingua. I have been working with STARTALK programs each summer since 2006 to 2017.

Please contact me!

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lucy.solano@petalschools.com                                          NBCT Lucy Solano is a Colombian native, who has worked as a Spanish teacher, law enforcement and military personnel trainer, and Federal Court interpreter for more than 20 years. After finishing her MATL program at USM, Ms. Solano has continued advocating foreign language and culture learning in any way she can. She was chosen Petal HS and Petal School District TOY in 2014. Her main goal is to expand students' worldview and help them become more understanding and respectful of other cultures while enjoying language learning.

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lucy.solano@petalschools.com                                          NBCT Lucy Solano is a Colombian native, who has worked as a Spanish teacher, law enforcement and military personnel trainer, and Federal Court interpreter for more than 20 years. After finishing her MATL program at USM, Ms. Solano has continued advocating foreign language and culture learning in any way she can. She was chosen Petal HS and Petal School District TOY in 2014. Her main goal is to expand students' worldview and help them become more understanding and respectful of other cultures while enjoying language learning.