It was recently announced Logansport Community School Corporation Superintendent Michele Starkey was nominated by the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association as a recipient of the 2026 IFLTA Walter Bartz Distinguished World Language Administrator award.
This award is intended to recognize an administrator who has supported the expansion, teaching, and creation of programs in a school or in a district and was announced by Israel Herrera, chair of the IFLTA Awards Committee, in an email to Starkey last week.
The award presented to Starkey at the IFLTA gala awards ceremony as part of the annual IFLTA conference on Friday, November 6, at the Marriott East in Indianapolis.
“The awards committee was very impressed by all the actions you have done to educate multilingual learners in your community. Your nominators Professor Chunmei Guan, Dr. Michael Miller, Dr. Jocelyn Aguilar Castro, and Professor Shane Le Faure highlighted your dedication, efforts, and all the contributions to schools in your role as Superintendent of Logansport Community School Corporation. They value your decisions and advocacy work to advance the teaching of world languages in Logansport schools. Your nominators consider you an exceptional educational leader whose advocacy, encouragement, and administrative support have contributed significantly to the huge success of world language education in your school corporation,” the email said.
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