Carmen Scoggins teaches Spanish at Watauga High School in beautiful Boone, North Carolina where she is also an adjunct Spanish and Foreign Language Methodology instructor at Appalachian State University.  She earned a BS and MA in Spanish Education from Appalachian State and is a National Board Certified Teacher.  Carmen is an active member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), and the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC).  She is a past president of FLANC and SCOLT.  In 2007 Carmen was FLANC’s Teacher of the Year and in 2008 she received the SCOLT Teacher of the Year honor.  In 2015 Carmen received the ACTFL Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology with IALLT (K-12).  In November 2020 Carmen was awarded the ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education K-12.  

Carmen has presented at the state, regional, national, and international levels on integrating technology into the world language classroom, personalizing the language-learning experience, and building student relationships.  She is passionate about getting future world language teachers involved in the profession.  Carmen is in her 29th year of education.