Jessica Haxhi is honored to have worked as the Supervisor of World Languages in NHPS for 8 years. Before that, she taught Japanese for 20 years in Waterbury, CT. She has taught world language methods courses at Southern Connecticut State University for 15 years and served on the Board of the Northeast Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) and as Co-President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ).  She was a recipient of the Milken Family Foundation National Teacher Award for CT (2002), the U.S.-Japan Foundation  Elgin Heinz Outstanding Japanese Teacher Award (2008), and the International Women’s Day New Haven Award for Outstanding Public Service (2019).   Jessica is the President of ACTFL, the national world language teachers' association, for 2021.