FLAG Teacher of the Year Award
Sandra Lee Hunt
Tift County High School, Tifton, GA
FLAG Year 2003 Awards
Presented at the SCOLT/FLAG Annual Conference,
March 1, 2003, Atlanta, GA
Jim Chesnut, Awards Coordinator
Best of FLAG!
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Each year FLAG conference attendees send in nominations for the best session they attended during the conference. The "Best of FLAG" decision is then made at the Spring Executive Board meeting of FLAG. The recipient represents FLAG at the following annual SCOLT conference.
FLAG Teacher of the Year Award
Sandra Lee Hunt
Tift County High School, Tifton, GA
Ms. Hunt currently teaches Spanish IV, V/VI at Tift County HS
Tifton, Georgia and has taught Spanish, French, Italian, and German for
32 years. She received a B.S. in Education from Kent State University
and has add-on certificates in French, German, Italian and ESOL.
She also holds an M.A. fromTrinity College and is working toward completion
of National Board certification. Professional recognition and activities
include the following: "Best All-Around Teacher" & "Most Dedicated
Teacher" - Tift County HS - 2001, 2002; Atlanta Journal Constitution's
Honor Teacher Award - 2001; Teacher of Excellence Award - Tift Education
Foundation - 2001; "Be Your Best" Teaching Award - one of 10 national recipients
- 2001; National Board Certification Scholarship winner; Georgia's Teacher
of the Year - finalist - 1998; Teacher of the Year - Douglas County (GA)
School System - 1997; South Carolina's Spanish Teacher of the
Year - 1994; Teacher of the
YearGeorgetown County (SC) School System - 1990; Jennings Scholar
- Ohio's highest teaching honor 1973; "Who's Who Among America's Teachers"
- numerous entries. Of all her accomplishements, Ms Hunt is most
proud of being able to offer Spanish IV, V/VI to her students.
Dr. Saunders is currently Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in French from Michigan State University, and a B.A. from the Colorado College. While teaching high school French, Dr. Saunders was recognized as the Fulton County "Teacher of the Year" and was a semi-finalist for the state of Georgia "Teacher of the Year." She also was selected as "Star Teacher" at her high school and, in 1982, received the "Teacher of the Year" award from the Foreign Language Association of Georgia. In 1994, Dr. Saunders received a scholarship from the Embassy of France to participate in a summer study seminar in Poitiers. Last year she was recognized by the Southern Conference on Language Teaching as their "Outstanding Teacher, Post-Secondary." Her dissertation research was on Georgia's Elementary School Foreign Languages Model Program and she currently has a book, co-authored with Marcia Spielberger, in press about the Model Program
FLAG has chosen Deborah Riedmiller and Michael Alexander as joint recipients of the FLAG 2003 Leadership Award, P-12 for their continuing support of foreign languages in the Atlanta Public School System. Ms Riedmiller is currently Foreign Language Coordinator for Atlanta Public Schools, a position she has held for five years after 22 years of classroom teaching experience in Ohio and Georgia. She received her B.S. in Education, Ohio State University (1972), and her M.A. in Humanities Education, Ohio State University (1974). Her professional activities and recognition include Professor du Laureat, American Association of Teachers of French, 1996 and 1997; FLAG Teacher of the Year, 1993; and Rockefeller Fellow, 1986. Mr. Alexander is the Executive Director for Teaching and Learning with Atlanta Public Schools. He holds a B.A. in Elementary Education, University of Illinois Chicago (1973), an Ed.M. in Administration Planning & Social Policy from Harvard University (1999), and is working on an Ed.D. in Administration Planning and Social Policy, also at Harvard. He has directed such projects as the rollout of a systemic adoption of New American Schools comprehensive school reform designs, the development of a comprehensive evaluation design to document, monitor and inform planning and implementation of comprehensive school reform, and the establishment of university partnerships to develop more effective teacher education programs and an alternative teacher certification program.
Dr. McAllister has served in several capacities at Kennesaw State University since 1986. She is currently Director of the Center for Hispanic Studies, having also served as Department Head of Foreign Languages at KSU. Dr. McAllister received her B.A. (1968) from Georgia State College, the M.A. (1970) and the Ph.D. (1982) from Georgia State University. She has worked primarily in education (teaching French, Spanish and History in high school and postsecondary) but also in management consulting (as a research assistant) and with the federal government as a language program manager for the largest command within the Department of Defense. She served as President of AATF Georgia and FLAG, received the Palmes Académiques in 2000, was the FLAG representative to the Atlanta Committee for Olympic Games, hostess for Claude Simon during the Cultural Olympiad and assisted with Octavio Paz, also during the Cultural Olympiad.
Dr. Bloodworth has served as President of Augusta State University since 1993. He received his B.S. degree in English, from Texas Lutheran University, 1964; his M.A. degree in English, Lamar University, 1967; and his Ph.D. degree in American Civilization, the University of Texas at Austin, 1972. His research interests have led to articles and books on American literature, especially the literature of the American West and the literature of political reform. FLAG recognizes the strong support Dr. Bloodworth has shown for foreign languages throughout his career: "The benefit of studying a foreign language lies, first of all, in the study of language itself, the most human and most important of all subjects. The study of a foreign language, then, is far more than a practical or interesting enterprise (although it is that as well) because, by entering and joining the linguistic world of another people, it expands and deepens one's own humanity. We live in a world where such expansion and deepening is more needed, more necessary, every day."
Dr. Bostick is currently professor of French at Howard U., Washington, DC. He received his higher education at Morehouse College, Atlanta U., Middlebury College, U. of Paris (La Sorbonne}, and Ohio State U. He has held the positions of Foreign Language Consultant for Georgia; Department Chair at Morehouse College, at Texas Southern U., as well as at Howard University; and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Howard. His professional leadership includes Founder of SCOLT, First President of FLAG, President of The College Language Association, and Secretary of The Board of Directors of the National Museum of Language. He is recipient of several distinguished honors, awards and fellowships.
Dr. Adams, President of UGA, earned his master's degree in political communications in 1971 and a doctorate in political communications with an emphasis in educational administration in 1973. He was named a University Fellow, the highest academic recognition at The Ohio State Graduate School, and he is the recipient of more than 20 national awards for leadership in higher education. FLAG is recognizing President Adams for his support for foreign languages, specifically his effective and strong letter published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last Fall during the debate over the high school diploma and the foreign language requirement. As President of one of the State's major institutions of higher learning, Dr. Adams gave his full and unequivocal support for keeping foreign languages as a requirement for the high school diploma.