Foxcroft Foreign Language teacher Kathleen Dragan will receive the 2008 ISE Language Matters presented by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese during the AATSP annual conference, scheduled for July in San Jose, Costa Rica. 

The Language Matters Award, sponsored by Intercultural Student Experiences, is awarded to:

• "a high school world language teacher who has achieved outstanding success in getting her students to speak the target language through exemplary motivation and creative methods" and
   
• "who has provided authentic immersion experiences outside the classroom for students to apply their speaking skills."