Barbara P. Barnett, Head of Modern Languages at the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia, has received the Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award, Secondary Level, from the American Association of Teachers of French. The award recognizes teachers for excellence and commitment in the teaching of French language and Francophone cultures and literatures.

An official presentation will be made at the Awards Banquet in San Jose, California, in July 2009 at the Annual AATF conference. Madame Barnett will receive a framed certificate, a complimentary membership in the AATF for 2010 and a one-year subscription to Le Français dans le monde.

Mme Barnett, a teacher of French at Agnes Irwin for over thirty years, authored the book Visages de la Shoah: Marcel Jabelot (published in both French and English) and co-directed of two award-winning documentaries dealing with collaboration and resistance in Vichy France. She was decorated Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in May 2007.