In 2014, she was selected as the 2015 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year. She has continued to teach full-time while serving as a member of the Instructional Quality Commission, an advisory body to the California Department of Education, and providing more than 100 hours of professional development a year to teachers all over North America. In 2016, she was named a local LearningMedia Digital Innovator by PBS. TAGSAmerican Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languagecore practicesglobal competencyworld language SHARE