2025 LFLTA Conference keynote speaker and workshop leader
Heidi Trude is a French teacher at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville, Virginia. She has 16 years of experience teaching every level of French from French 1 through AP French Language and Culture. She created an international partnership between her school and Lycée-Bazin in Charleville-Mézières, France, to engage her students with the French language and culture. Furthermore, she possesses multiple educational technology certifications and she is a master at integrating technology meaningfully into the world language curriculum. She also provides technology training for the faculty at her school and she presents her innovative ideas at professional conferences such as the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA), the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) and ACTFL. Heidi serves as the Immediate Past President of FLAVA, and served as a member of the SCOLT Board of Directors from 2019 -2023. Heidi is the 2017 Region IV Virginia Teacher of the Year; the 2017 FLAVA David Cox World Language Teacher of the Year; the 2018 SCOLT World Language Teacher of the Year and 2019 ACTFL Language Teacher of the Year finalist. In her free time, Heidi absolutely loves decorating cookies with royal icing, traveling, and spending time with her husband and her beagle, Crumpet.
Friday Pre-Conference Workshop
NOTE: This requires a separate registration and additional fee. See our 2025 Conference Registration page for details!
Friday Keynote
Saturday Workshop
Friday Pre-Conference Workshop
NOTE: This requires a separate registration and additional fee. See our 2025 Conference Registration page for details!
Friday Keynote
Saturday Workshop