About

Bill Heller has taught students in public elementary, secondary, community college and undergraduate classrooms for 40 years including 24 years as the high school Spanish teacher. He has been the methods and Spanish workshop instructor at SUNY Geneseo since 2001 and, since his retirement from Perry High School in 2011, he has also supervised student teachers.  He has done workshops, conferences and keynotes at local, state, regional and national conferences for World Language teachers and has been a consultant on curricular design with several school districts. He was a turnkey trainer for the revisions to the Second Language Proficiency Exam and the Comprehensive Regents Examinations in Languages other than English for the New York State Education Department. Bill was a Mead Fellow at NECTFL in 2003 and has served on the NYSAFLT Board of Directors.  He is the Chair for the 2018 Northeast Conference (NECTFL). He and his adopted rescue dogs, Sadie and Mercedes, live in the Village of Warsaw, NY.