Helene Zimmer-Loew, Executive Director
of the American Association of Teachers of German for the past
eighteen years, holds a B. A. from Connecticut College, M.S. from
St. John’s University, and M.A. from Middlebury College. She
taught German, Spanish and English in grades 8-12 on Long Island
before serving as an Associate in the New York State Education
Department’s Bureau of Foreign Languages Education. Her final
position in the Department was Coordinator of the Resource
Allocation Plan and the Office of the District Superintendents
where her duties included assisting schools in need of academic
improvement to meet state standards and serving as the
Department’s liaison with the District Superintendents.
She has served as Chair of the Northeast Conference, President of
the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages,
President of the Joint National Committee for Language (JNCL),
President of the National Federation of Modern Foreign Language
Teacher Associations, President of the Foreign Language
Association of Chairmen and Supervisors of Long Island, and
President of the Half Hollow Hills Teachers Association. She has
held leadership roles in the National Council of State Supervisors
of Foreign Languages, the New York State Association of Foreign
Language Teachers, the Long Island Chapter of the AATG, and the
American Forum on Global Education.
She has been honored by the German government first with their
Friendship Award and then with its highest civilian award, the
Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Presently she is a member of the Board of Directors of the
National Foreign Language Standards Collaborative Project, having
served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National
Student Standards Project. She is a member of the ERIC/CLL
National Clearinghouse Committee and the Advisory Board of the
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State
University and the National Capital Language Resource Center in
Washington DC. She has served as Chair of the Alliance of
Curriculum Reform and is a member of the Foreign Language Academic
Advisory Committee for the College Board.
She has been a longtime fundraiser for Connecticut College as well
as having served as president of its Alumni Association and a
member of the Board of Trustees. She is an Executive Board of
Historical Society of Haddonfield.
She has published extensively on a variety of topics and most
recently in the area of professional policy and teacher
professionalism.
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