2017 Awards Winners
President’s Award Miguel Santiago, Assemblyman, California’s 53rd Assembly District, author of Assembly Bill 2290 which requires revisions to the existing World Language Content Standards for California Public Schools and a pursuant adoption of curriculum framework as well as evaluation criteria for instructional materials that are aligned to the revised California World Language Content Standards.
Hal Wingard Lifetime Achievement Award Mary Anne Lyman-Hager, Director of the Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) and Professor off European Studies and French, San Diego State University
Lorraine D’Ambruoso Award for Meritorious Service M. Carol Brown, teacher and professor (ret.), Spanish, CSU, Sacramento, Co-Director of Capital World Language Project
CLTA Outstanding Teachers
Thomas Beeman, Spanish, California Virtual Academies, Simi Valley
Diniz Borges: Portuguese, Tulare Union High School
Nicole Elenz-Martine, Spanish, Aragon High School, San Mateo
Karen McDowell, French, Aptos High School
CWLP Teacher Leader
Baocai Paul Jia, Chinese, Cupertino High School
CLTA California Teacher of the Year (and Southwest Conference on Language Teaching award winner!)
Ying Jin, Chinese, Cupertino High School, Homestead High School & Fremont High School
Centro Mundo Lengua Grant + LangAbroD Nancy Pérez, Spanish El Diamante High School, Visalia
LangAbroD Grants
Suzanne Contreras, Durham High School
Memorial Scholarship
Maylén Rafuls Rosa, French, San Ysidro High School, San Diego
Spanish Embassy Grant
Joy Keifer, Spanish, Cupertino High School