TT55 - Teaching our own children, traveling with students and creating student advocates and ambassadors for our programs: Nathan, ACTFL National T.O.Y. and super-star advocate for WL programs

June 26, 2026 00:30:42
TT55 - Teaching our own children, traveling with students and creating student advocates and ambassadors for our programs: Nathan, ACTFL National T.O.Y. and super-star advocate for WL programs
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TT55 - Teaching our own children, traveling with students and creating student advocates and ambassadors for our programs: Nathan, ACTFL National T.O.Y. and super-star advocate for WL programs

Jun 26 2026 | 00:30:42

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Show Notes

In this episode, we are all privileged to hear from Nathan, a National Teacher of the Year for world languages. More importantly, however, we are inspired by Nathan’s passion, dedication and stories about being a dad, advocate, colleague, friend and teacher. Nathan and I share so many things in common… from being passionate advocates… to having our own children as our students in class… to traveling with students all over the world during the summer…to advocating for better opportunities in education for our students on the local, state and national levels.  Nathan says, “student success is our advocacy”, which is why…

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