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KEN STEWART (BA International Studies and Spanish UNC-Chapel Hill; MA Spanish NC State University) is the 2006 ACTFL National Foreign Language Teacher of Year. He currently teaches Spanish at Duke University in North Carolina. A National Board Certified high school Spanish teacher, he has taught middle grades through college. Ken is a recent member of the ACTFL Board of Directors, the SCOLT Board, and the Executive Council of the AATSP. In 2014, he was the recipient of ACTFL’s Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education K-12. Ken has been a consultant to the College Board since 1992. He has served on the AP Spanish Language and Culture Test Development Committee, as a question leader at the AP Reading, and has been a national consultant for over 25 years. He has conducted over 200 AP and pre-AP workshops and summer institutes throughout the US as well as in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Previously, Ken was honored as the Central North Carolina Teacher of the Year by the State of NC, Teacher of the Year by the AATSP, Foreign Language Teacher of the Year by FLANC (The Foreign Language Association of North Carolina) and as Regional Teacher of the Year by SCOLT (Southern Conference on Language Teaching). He is a frequent presenter at state, regional and national conferences. Ken works as a freelance world language consultant and keynote speaker. An aficionado of travel, he speaks Spanish, Portuguese and some French; he has traveled in 43 countries.
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LAURA ZINKE, a native of Arizona, has been an AP Spanish teacher, on the campus of McClintock High School, for 36 years, and has been the department chair of the Foreign Language Department for 16 years. Laura has been actively involved in AATSP for the past 27 years; serving as the current State President of the Arizona Chapter and the National President. Laura has a Bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University and a Masters from Middlebury College and is a Gifted Endorsed teacher in the State of Arizona. She has served as a reader, a Table Leader and a Question Leader at the AP Spanish Reading and currently serves as an Exam Leader. Laura was a member of the AP Spanish Language Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee and served as the high school co-chair of the AP Spanish Language and Culture Committee for five years. Laura has been an Advanced Placement Faculty Consultant since 1994 presenting both weekend workshops and summer institutes; she has been a presenter at various regional and national Foreign Language and AP conferences and is a former Fulbright Teacher exchange participant to Córdoba, Argentina.
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ANGELICA JIMENEZ retired in June 2018 after thirty-six years as an educator. All but two of those years were at Redwood High School in Visalia, CA. Before this, she taught first grade at Eastman Avenue School in East LA from 1982 to 1984. While at Redwood, she taught all levels of Spanish but her favorite assignments were “Spanish 1 for Spanish Speakers” and “AP Spanish Literature and Culture”, the latter since 2003. During the late 1980s she had the opportunity to be an adjunct Spanish instructor at College of the Sequoias, teaching Spanish to adult students. Jimenez earned her BA in Chicano Studies from UCLA in 1981, and her teaching credential from UCLA in 1982. Jimenez has been an AP Spanish Reader for AP Spanish Literature & Culture since 2005 and began as a College Board Workshop Consultant in AP Spanish Literature & Culture in 2007. In 2008, she trained as a “mentee” and later became a Mentor for the College Board’s consultant pool. She served as a member of the “AP Spanish Literature Test Development Committee” in 2010-11. Now retired, she lives in the foothills near Lindsay, California.
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