Heidi Trude

Background

About Heidi Trude

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. Prior to joining LCPS, Heidi spent the first eleven years of her teaching career with Warren County Public Schools. 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) and the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT). Heidi serves as the President of FLAVA, and is 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, a 2019 ACTFL Language Teacher of the Year finalist, and the 2019 EF Excellence in Education Award for Language Teaching recipient.