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Gladys Lipton is the Director of America’s National FLES* Institute, and serves as a consultant to schools, school Districts and other agencies. She has directed national teacher development institutes at the University of Maryland. Her past leadership positions include Program Coordinator in Foreign Languages and ESOL for the Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland, and Director of Foreign Languages for the New York City Public Schools. Dr. Lipton has served as Editor of the newsletter of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. She has chaired the national FLES* committees of both the AATSP and the AATF. She has also served as an Associate Editor of the AATSP journal Hispania, and as national president of the AATF. She has received many awards for her work in the profession, including ACTFL’s Steiner Leadership Award and, in 2010, the award of Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, from the French government. In 2015, she was awarded the Médaille de Mérite from La Renaissance Française.