Addison Trail teacher named 2024 New Teacher of the Year by Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Addison Trail world language teacher Macy Sherwood (pictured above) has been named as the 2024 New Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ICTFL).

According to https://www.ictfl.org/new-teachers-award.html#/, this award “recognizes individuals who have recently entered the … teaching profession and who show outstanding promise of becoming professionally active ICTFL members, as well as capable teachers of world languages, including English as a second language.”

Sherwood was nominated by one of her college professors, Jude Krushnowski, Director of World Language Teacher Education at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She was then selected as this year’s honoree by a jury of ICTFL officers and other members, who scored the entries.