2009 Robert G. Mead, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award

The Robert G. Mead, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award is given to an AATSP member in good standing who has shown leadership within in the profession as a whole and who has made scholarly contributions to the profession.

The 2009 winner of the Robert G. Mead, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award is Myriam Met of the National Foreign Language Center in Washington, DC. 

Met has served leadership roles in a variety of foreign language associations. She founded the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages and was the organization's first president. She was a founding member and president of the National Network for Early Language Learning.

She developed and served as co-chair of the New Visions Project in Foreign Language Education and served on the ACTFL executive board from 2002-2005. She has also served the AATSP in various capacities. She was a member of the writing team for the National Standards in Spanish, an associate editor of Hispania, and co-chair of the Pacesetter Spanish National Task Force.

Met also has been recognized as a prestigious researcher in field. However, it is as a speaker and presenter that Met is most well known. Attendees crowd into her sessions, workshops and keynote addresses because, as noted in her letter of nomination, "...everyone knows that after listening to Mimi, they will think about their teaching differently and will expand their knowledge of research-based pedogogy."