Awards for Professionals

The Nelson H. Brooks Award For Outstanding Leadership in the Profession

The Nelson H. Brooks Leadership Award honors a passionate leader who has made significant contributions to the world language community layered from the local, state, regional and/or national levels. Applicants’ dossiers include evidence of their dedication, influence, and collaboration in service to language learning, language learners, and language educators. The Northeast Conference Board of Directors has honored a member of the profession for distinguished service and leadership since 1968. In 1978, the award was renamed in honor of Nelson H. Brooks, who, through his work and publications about the importance of culture in the world language classroom, dramatically influenced second language instruction. 

Learn more and make a nomination for the Brooks Award here.

The James W. Dodge Language Advocate Award

The Language Advocate Award is presented to honor an individual outside the profession for recognition of work on behalf of languages. Since 1990, this award has been presented at the discretion of the Board of Directors in memory of James W. Dodge, who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Northeast Conference for nearly twenty years.

Learn more and make a nomination for the Dodge Award here. 

The Stephen A. Freeman Award

This Freeman Award is endowed with the interest from a grant by Stephen A. Freeman of Middlebury College. It has been awarded since 1968 at the discretion of the Board of Directors to recognize the best published article on teaching techniques to have appeared in a professional journal during the preceding year.

Learn more and make a nomination for the Freeman Award here.