Heidi Trude earned a BA in French and History from Sweet Briar College (2007), a M.Ed from the University of Mary Washington (2009), and a certificate in Instructional Technology & Language teaching from the University of Colorado Boulder (2019).  Heidi is a French teacher at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville, Virginia. She has 17 years of experience teaching every level of French from French I through AP French Language & Culture. Prior to teaching at Loudoun Valley, Heidi taught French at Skyline High School in Front Royal, VA.  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 the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Heidi serves as the Immediate Past President of FLAVA, and served as the Social Media Chair and Program Director for 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, the 2019 ACTFL Language Teacher of the Year finalist, and the 2019 EF Excellence in Language Teaching Award recipient.  

Email: techietrude@gmail.com

Twitter: @htrude07