2025 Recipient: Chelsea Lawrence
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the K-12 Leadership Award! Chelsea Lawrence is a Spanish teacher at UMS-Wright Preparatory School in Alabama. Her impact on the local community and her students is evident in her portfolio and letters of recommendation.
A leader is one who knows his or her strengths and leverages them at the right time to bring forth growth in a team or community. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) and state organizations like the Alabama World Languages Association (AWLA) play a crucial role in developing, empowering, connecting and advocating for teachers and world language education. As a Spanish teacher at UMS-Wright Preparatory School, I have had the blessing to engage with and follow incredible leaders within my school institution and the organizations above that have transformed me into the educator I am today. Furthermore, they have provided me the opportunities and support to develop my own leadership skills through various roles and positions – and for this I am very grateful! While I am firm in the belief that growth as a leader is endless, I am humbled to receive the 2025 SCOLT K-12 Leadership Award.
Previous Recipients:
2024 –
2023 Julie Roberts (MS)
2022 Grisell Santiago (FL)
2021 Tavane Moore (GA)
2020 Mara Cobe (NC)
2019 Patrick Wallace (GA)
2018 Jon Valentine (GA)
2017 Mark Linsky (GA)
2015 Pam Benton (FL)
The SCOLT Leadership Award is given for K-12 educators who have demonstrated excellence in language teaching through service to the school, community, active participation in SCOLT, and leadership and advocacy at the local, state, and/or regional or national level. The nominating documents for this award include a letter of nomination, a statement from nominee of acceptance of nomination (paragraph), a CV/Resume, and two letters of support.
Nominate a colleague for the Leadership Award! Deadline for applications is January 15.
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The Language Connects Foundation congratulates the five Regional Language Teachers of the Year! Learn more about each of these amazing educators at: https://bit.ly/3Ur2cDm @cslang4all @_SCOLT_ @swcoltorg @pncfl1949 @NECTFL
We had a blast in March at SCOLT 2024 in Atlanta. Thank you, everyone, for making it a success.
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