Spotlight on: Laura Parker, recent graduate

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Shout out for Laura Parker, a 2011 graduate of Appalachian State University’s Master of Arts program in romance languages and 2004 graduate of Appalachian’s English and French undergraduate programs, who was recently named the North Carolina French Teacher of the Year by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (NC-AATF). Parker teaches French at Burns High School in Lawndale.

Appalachian was founded as a teachers college and continues to offer one of the largest undergraduate teacher preparation programs in North Carolina.