About movement, building a family atmosphere in the classroom, and being recognized as the ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year.
William Lee has been the Latin teacher at Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio, TX, for the past 20 years. He taught at Barbara Bush Middle School and Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio for three years prior to accepting his current position. William is currently a member of the College Board's AP Latin Development Committee, and he currently serves as Vice-President of Texas Foreign Language Association, Vice-President of the Texas Classical Association, President of the San Antonio Classical Society, and as one of the State Co-Chairs of the Texas State Junior Classical League. In the past, he has held various leadership positions with the National Junior Classical League, and he also served as the Chair of the American Classical League's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
In recognition of his excellent teaching and remarkable service to the profession, William received the Society of Classical Studies Excellence in Teaching at the Pre-Collegiate Level Award in 2019 and the Texas Classical Association Gaylan DuBose Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. In addition, William was named the 2021 Texas Foreign Language Association Teacher of the Year, the 2022 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching Teacher of the Year, and the 2023 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) National Language Teacher of the Year.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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