Heidi Trude
Loudoun Valley High School
FLAVA President
Purcellville, VA
Heidi Trude is a French teacher at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville, Virginia. She has 15 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 President of FLAVA, and serves a member of the SCOLT Board of Directors. 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.
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